Joan Crawford studies on the set of No More Ladies, 1935
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Glenn Ford and Joan Crawford walk hand in hand on the Columbia lot, March 1942. Excerpt from Glenn Ford: A Life:
Strolling across the Colombia lot one day, Glenn ran into Joan Crawford. The legendary MGM star was on loan to Columbia to star in They All Kissed the Bride. She was a last-minute replacement for Carole Lombard, who had died in a plane crash in January while on a war bond-selling tour. Glenn and Joan recognized each other and exchanged warm greetings. Glenn had been quoted by a reporter saying, “Joan Crawford had the most beautiful eyes of any actress in Hollywood,” and Joan had obtained his phone number, called him, and thanked him for the compliment. Soon they were going out together, dining and dancing at the favored Beverly Hills nightspots. Some evenings Joan would invite him for dinner at her Brentwood home. She was the most dazzling, glamorous woman he had ever known, and a woman well known for her aggressive sexual appetite. “We had a brief affair,” he recalled, smiling. “We enjoyed each other’s company very much for a while. I wouldn’t call it a love affair. She was too powerful a presence for that. I don’t think she wanted that. She was very much sufficient unto herself.”
His favorite memory of Joan Crawford was not exactly romantic or glamorous. “One evening we had gone up to her bedroom with a bottle of Champagne. Joan said teasingly, ‘Well, you can make love to me….if you can get my girdle off.’ She was serious. So I began struggling. It was so tight it took quite a while, and she didn’t help me at all. Finally, I got a good grip and stretched it off of her, until it snapped….and almost threw me across the room!” The fling burned out quickly. Crawford found someone else soon enough, marrying Phillip Terry a few months later. Glenn was soon to meet Eleanor Powell.
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Joan Crawford prepares to show home movies of her children and friends, 1941
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“What a sweet and wonderful thing life is. I remember a line I saw in a newspaper the other day—‘Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.’ And I want to live—I want to know everything and see everything. I want to travel and be happy all my life. I want to touch the stars.”
Life to her was full and beautiful. She had risen out of the ashes and dust; she had found a new world that was fair and lovely. — Frazier Hunt, Photoplay, 1934
…but man, when Crawford comes on, the little girls might as well scram. She’s it. — Cosmopolitan, 1951
Something throbs in her. Something magnetic and alive, something vivid and important… — Helen Louise Walker, Silver Screen, 1934
She came up the hard way and she’s proud of it. If she could go back and change every circumstance that made her the Joan Crawford of today, you can be sure that there is one thing Joan wouldn’t change: She’d still want to be born out of the Babylon of the earth, she’d still want to be born south of the tracks. She’s grateful for that kind of a beginning because everything she owns today she earned. Hollywood never gave her anything. She gave Hollywood something… — Robert White, Los Angeles Times, 1939
She is Hollywood. — Barbara Ribakove, Photoplay, 1975Happy Birthday to Lucille Fay LeSueur, aka Joan Crawford! | 23 March 1906 - 10 May 1977
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“I love playing bitches. There`s a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.”
- Joan Crawford
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