" Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression thirties, to her Oscar-winning performances in classic films such as Mildred Pierce. Crawford's legacy has become somewhat tarnished in the wake of her daughter Christina's memoir, Mommie Dearest, which turned her into a national joke. Today, many picture Crawford only as a wire hanger-wielding shrew...
" Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for mor...
A film historian takes a comprehensive look at one of the more enduring Hollywood legends, and examines all aspects of the great actor/director's life, his character both on and off screen, and his long union with wife Joanne Woodward. photo insert.
A film historian takes a comprehensive look at one of the more enduring Hollywood legends, and examines all aspects of the great actor/director's life...
