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GRAND NEWS!!! The Films of Joan Crawford (www.filmsofcrawford.com), this fabulous website, my baby, is going to be a book (as I always dreamed it
would be and designed it to be)! The book is called Just Joan: A Joan Crawford Appreciation and
will be out in April 2010!!!! Just Joan carries endorsements from none other than the inimitable Charles Busch
and the divine Shaun Considine (author of Bette and Joan: The Divinie Feud); their words will adorn my book's
covers! There is more comprehensive material than even on this site, more than 250 fabulous photos (including many not
found on this site), and a moving, phenomenal afterword by Jim Sibal, the spouse of the late Carl Johnes who was Crawford's
dear friend in her later years. Just Joan has been a monumental load of work in putting together, lots of stress
and lots of joy, and definitely a labor of love. It is dedicated to my parents and to the fans -- yes, all of you wonderful
people out there in the dark (just as Joan would have wanted it!) It's my valentine to my beloved Joan Crawford, the
Maria Callas of Film. May her star always burn bright! Just Joan is a truly unique Crawford book; there
is none other like it! In seeing a preview of it, I can tell you it looks FABULOUS and I'm both ecstatic and proud!!
(Hell, I deserve it -- and so do all of you!!) Stay tuned for more details! Joan, hang onto your hat!!
(She's looking through her massive shelves of hats for the right one for opening night!)
March
7, 2010
Replaced a photo
in Gallery 14 of Joan with Jack Benny with the same photo sans watermark -- thanks to Jennifer!!
January
30, 2010
Happy new year, all! I will be adding a new page
when possible about my upcoming projects. Right now I'm swamped and gearing up for the publication of Just
Joan, my dream come true; stay tuned for the April debut which I'm absolutely thrilled about!! My site is basically
going to be considered complete and the book will be a lasting testament to it. I love websites, but, for me, nothing
can replace a book that you can hold in your hand. A website lasts as long as its creator - a book, like a diamond,
is forever!
I love the e-mails I get from all you fellow Joan fans,
so keep 'em coming! I'm always glad to hear from you!
December
20, 2009
Added link for
new Joan blog (wow! Joan is really enjoying a renaissance!!) - Fuck Yeah Joan Crawford! (Here! Here!)
Check it out under Links I Like!
December
16, 2009
Added link to Michael
O'Hanlon's new website dedicated to one of my alltime favorite actresses, that siren of the pre-code film and elegant
drink of water - Kay Francis! Check it out under Links I Like!
November
4, 2009
Replaced last
photo in Queen Bee with better version of same photo.
November
1, 2009
Replaced first
photo for better version of same photo in When Ladies Meet.
October
27, 2009
Replaced a photo
in Berserk with brilliant new color one! Check it out!
October
2, 2009
Deleted link to Swingin' Chicks of the Sixties, which seems to be defunct and is now replaced
by a porn site of the same name, and added new link to Mildred Pierce, The Novel (thanks, Carolyn!) which contains fascinating analytical research papers from Glendale college students -- see
the real Glendale! Check out the photos!
Listen, folks,
still working on my big project. Announcement will be made at Christmas.
September
16, 2009
Added link to
a multi-faceted and fascinating new site The Land of Crawford/All Things Crawford to Links I Like. Check it out!
September
11, 2009
Slight revisions to book review of Johnny Guitar.
September
9, 2009
Made tiny edit
to A Portrait of Joan in Book Reviews.
September
1, 2009
Made slight edits
to book review of Joan Crawford: The Last Word.
Added review
for Marry for Money by Katharine Brush, the basis for the film "Mannequin."
August
31, 2009
Added book review
for Fred Lawrence Guiles' Joan Crawford: The Last Word.
August
28, 2009
Actually, a lot
more is coming. Just haven't gotten around to adding it, plus working on my big project which will be announced probably
at Christmas!
Meanwhile, added
Joan's lovely signature to the front page. We'll see if that stays. Just testing a slightly new look and remain
undecided. Stay tuned!
August
23, 2009
Happy 3rd Anniversary
to this site! It's been a wonderful three years!
July
28, 2009
Added review
for Joan Crawford: A Biography by Bob Thomas to Book Reviews.
July
22, 2009
Made minor edits
to my essay Joan and Diana: Two Great Dames and review for Montana Moon.
July
17, 2009
Made edits to
"The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" under Miscellaneous Plays Made Into Films.
July
15, 2009
Made small adjustments to The Joan Crawford Murders in Book Reviews.
July
7, 2009
Friends, Romans and Joan fans -- once again, I'm taking a necessary hiatus to work on some uber-thrilling
projects and eventually announcements will be made on this site!!! I'm drinking Pepsi as I write this.
In the interim, don't tell me you've read everything and taken all the quizzes, solved all the puzzles, and cleaned your apartments
up to Joan standards. I just won't believe it. Once my thrilling projects are complete (to be replaced by more
thrilling projects), I will be updating my site, making my uber-marvelous announcement, and completing any outstanding reviews.
When I get winded, I only think of Joan. What would she do? We don't have to ask. We know.
Stay tuned!
Same Joan-time, same Joan-channel (or url).
June
27, 2009
Added new photos
to Rain and Today We Live.
June
12, 2009
Added link to
non-Joan site "Dynasty Official Site" for that absolutely fabulous nighttime soap opera par excellence starring another divine
"Joan C." -- Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington. Diva-licious! Check it out in Links I Like.
June
11, 2009
Added new link to new site "Post Modern Joan!" With Joan Crawford as an overriding theme,
it explores many aspects of film -- not all directly related to Crawford, but fascinating. Check it out under
Links I Like.
Removed blog
"All About Margo" from the Links page, since it apparently has shut down.
June
9, 2009
Added a new photo
of my friend Karen and I to About Me page and several new photos to Television Acting.
June
1, 2009
Okay, kids, back
with some updates this month! Returned from a phenomenal trip to Alaska -- incredible, pristine wilderness with a beauty
that was unearthly! To see grizzlies catching fish under a glacier with the snow-covered mountains as backdrop (the
white and ice blue outlines of the mountaintops peek out of cloud, to make it all the more surreally beautiful) and
all that blue - Wow! My gal Sarah Palin lives there, a self-made and sexy frontier's woman if ever there was, her grit
and glamour reminding me of our gal. (And one understands why fur is so popular there - it's a living in that rugged, amazing
wilderness and a necessity!)
Anyway, added
a link to a great Oldtime Radio Collection where you can get the "Joan Crawford Collection" and hear Joan on the radio (and
didn't she have a sensual speaking voice?) Check out: Links I Like and page down to "Joan-Related and Non-Joan Sites" to find the link and order these
great cds and disks. Joan was every inch a star -- even on the radio!
Speaking of radio, please also tune in to my
own radio mystery show "Saved by Miss Bell" being broadcast
by San Francisco's Shoestring Radio Theatre on June 26,
2009. It will be directed by Anne Stone. "Shoestring Radio Theatre"
airs nationally every week on the Public Radio Satellite Network (which reaches hundreds of public radio stations across the
country). The program also is heard on Golden Hours Radio in the state of Oregon, the Companion Radio Network (transmitted
to convalescent homes, veterans hospitals, and rehabilitation centers throughout the country), and Broadcast Services for
the Blind (San Francisco). You can also listen to the show on-demand in RealAudio. (If you live in the SF Bay Area, you can
tune in to the local edition of "Shoestring" on its flagship station KUSF, 90.3 FM.)
Don't drop out
- tune in!
May 17,
2009
Added new color
photo to Johnny Guitar and deleted a smaller color photo. Also shifted photos around slightly. (Hey - just noticed that, even in
"Johnny Guitar," Joan is stuck with those prim, insufferable, buttoned-up bows and Peter Pan collars that she seemed
to have been saddled - no pun intended -- with in the 1950's! Oy - blame Sheila O'Brien!)
May 8,
2009
Well, yesterday
was my birthday (woohoo!)! Just wanted to put in some words near the anniversary of Joan Crawford's death (May 10) -
Joan, we love you always and always (to echo a phrase from "Mannequin")! Updates will be forthcoming some time in June.
For now, going to Alaska and working on some projects. Will catch up on my Joan reading in June! Hang onto your
hats, Joan and Joan-fans (and we know how Joan loved mad hats)!
Although I don't
make announcements like this on my site as a general rule, just wanted to note that several Joan Crawford films have been
playing NYC this month: The Unknown will be playing at Film Forum on May 25 and Thursday Mildred Pierce
will be at Chelsea Clearview. (Last Thursday it was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.) Joan is still lighting
up the screens!
April
19, 2009
Removed "The
Only Thing" and substituted "The Circle" under listing for Films of the Twenties. (Thanks, Mateja!) There are also seven other possible silents Joan was an extra in which I will eventually
add when I have confirmation.
April
13, 2009
Reviewed fictionalized
story of Possessed 1947 in Book Reviews. More reviews will be forthcoming, kids. Still wrapped up in many projects.
April
1, 2009
Added another
Pepsi product placement answer to my Fun with Joan Trivia page (thanks, Hannah, for pointing out a very subtle, almost subliminal product placement
- don't ever say "The Exorcist" was the first to work subliminally! Joan was, folks!) Don't click on the answers
until you attempt to guess!
March
30, 2009
Light revisions
to Reunion in France (which I was privileged to see on the big screen today!)
March
23, 2009
In advance, let
me wish my beloved idol a wonderful birthday! Joan, we haven't forgotten you! We're still watching!
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY,
JOAN!!
March
20, 2009
Due to some very
exciting projects I'm working on at the moment, I am taking a hiatus from my site. But I will be back with lots of updates,
edits and treats for all of you Joan-mad guys and gals. And don't tell me you've read everything on the site already
and taken all quizzes (did you try the cryptograms?) (Hmm . . . I'll know if you've cheated, remember!) Stay tuned!
Announcements will be forthcoming, too! Hang onto your hats (and mink-coat-pocket-sized-heaters)!
March
12, 2009
Fixed font size in Fun with Joan Puzzles.
March
10, 2009
Replaced the
cover photo for Films of the Forties with one sans watermark (thanks, Mateja!) Also replaced photos with better prints in Ice Follies of 1939 and on the Contact Me page. (Again, thanks, Mateja!)
March
9, 2009
Added dynamic
new photo to Winners of the Wilderness.
Replaced a photo
of Joan dancing with Franchot with better version of same shot in Love on the Run.
March
8, 2009
Added new candid photo to The Story of Esther Costello. Bear with me, kids! Updates will be forthcoming when I get around to reviewing all the outstanding
Joan bios I've added pages for. Also have a ton of photos to add, but all in good time, my pretties, all in good time!
March
3, 2009
Corrected a photo
identification in Mildred Pierce (Thanks, Benjamin!)
February
22, 2009
Made light revisions
to book review Crawford's Men.
February
12, 2009
Added new links
to Book Reviews for the following (reviews to come): Joan Crawford: A Biography by Bob Thomas; Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr by David Bret; and Joan Crawford: The Last Word by Fred Lawrence Guiles. Yes, I will get to these outstanding reviews, including the "Ultimate Star" bio by Alexander Walker. Stay tuned!
February
7, 2009
Replaced photo
with watermark with same photo sans watermark in This Woman is Dangerous (it's the "cute backstage photo").
February
5, 2009
Deleted a small publicity photo of Joan with ingenues and substituted larger one of Joan with
ingenues in I Saw What You Did (photo before last).
January 29, 2009
Deleted color
lobby card with Joan and Eve Arden and substituted larger, black and white panoramic shot in Goodbye, My Fancy (fifth photo down from top).
Added great new
candid to Harriet Craig.
January
23, 2009
Replaced color
photo from "Humoresque" in Photo Gallery 4 with adorable photo of Joan with Charlie Chaplin. Replaced watermarked "Torch Song" photo in Gallery 5. Replaced profile shot of Joan in "Possessed" with color Humoresque photo in Gallery 14 (still working on that gallery - don't like it yet!)
January
20, 2009
Added new candid
photo to The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Deleted photo of Joan signing books and substituted color poolside Joan photo in Gallery 14. Various other edits to Photo Gallery 14. (And it's still not soup!)
January
16, 2009
Still not completely
satisfied with photos in Gallery 14 and they remain a work in progress. Added two new photos and deleted others.
Deleted color photo of Joan with her Oscar and panoramic shot of dancing from "Dancing Lady." Added beautiful headshot
of Joan (second from top) and color photo of Joan from early 50's. Also replaced photo with watermark (Joan cutting
gingham). It's not "soup" yet, but I'm experimenting and one day it will be.
January
6, 2009
Added new photo
(last one) to The Best of Everything.
December
31, 2008
Replaced two photos. Replaced top photo in The Gay Connection to Joan with clearer image of same photo and replaced color photo in Torch Song with different color photo to go with caption "The perfect guy. . . except he's blind!" Also improved picture
frames around photos on both links.
December
30, 2008
Added new photo
to Photo Gallery 14 with Christopher taking photo of family (very cute) and deleted color photo of hot Joan which is a duplicate of the
photo found on facing page of "Films of the Fifties."
Just to wish everyone a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year! Be back in 2009 (gulp!) with
more Joan extravaganza!
By the way, I'm
embarrassed (well, not really) to admit that the second anniversary of this site passed in August without my realizing it!
Anyway, my site is now a little bit over two years old! And going strong! Hang on to your hats, Joan and fans!
December
22, 2008
Completed book
review for All the Brothers Were Valiant, the basis for the film "Across to Singapore."
Made some updates
to Book Reviews page, including providing link to review at bottom of page under Joan photo.
December
18, 2008
Completed Photo Gallery 14, although may still move around photos to get right balance and effect. Check it out!
Finally finished
my review of Jane Ellen Wayne's Crawford's Men.
Added new page
for All the Brothers Were Valiant (made into the film "Across to Singapore") to Book Reviews.
Review to come!
Made tiny revision
to Conversations with Crawford.
December
17, 2008
Added color screen
grab to It's a Great Feeling.
December
15, 2008
Added link for
fun Topher Payne site "Ask Joan" to Links I Like. Don't we all want to know what Joan would do?!
December
13, 2008
Removed link
(sadly) for The Joan Crawford Fan Club which is currently defunct after a promising start.
Stay tuned for
my review of Crawford's Men (still laboring over it!) and Photo Gallery 14 (still in progress, subject to change)! (By the way, I had been under the impression Crawford's favorite color was green and couldn't remember where I got that idea. General consensus seems to be it was blue, based on her stationery. Well, I found the source in Crawford's Men, allegedly taken
from an interview with Crawford - although Jane Ellen Wayne's veracity inspires no confidence.)
Added last name
of Joan's "mystery great love" to Joan Crawford's Home Movies...In Color!
December
12, 2008
Added link for a dynamite, beautiful new site created by a Joan fan
-- for Joan's competitor, Bette Davis! (Go ahead and look– Joan knows you love her!) Check it out under Links I Like!
December 10, 2008
Had my best Joan Crawford experience ever this weekend when I went to sunny, gorgeous Los
Angeles and saw Crawford's home movies in color from
the period 1939-1942 approximately. Not only was she relaxed, natural and enchanting (clearly happy), but she was more
beautiful than we even imagined. It was a very interesting window into the human being. I will attempt to write
my assessment of these films with my new page Joan Crawford's Home Movies...In Color. Thanks, UCLA!
November 25, 2008
Made a correction to my own Fun with Joan Trivia. I try to be practically perfect in every way, as Mary Poppins aptly put it, but sometimes a flaw leaks through!
(Sorry, Joan! Put wrong name of 1920's film there!)
Did some fine-tuning
of the reviews in Television Acting.
November 20, 2008
Added two great new photos to Television Acting. See "Because I Love Him."
November 4, 2008
Added photos to The Shining Hour, They All Kissed the Bride, This Woman is Dangerous, and Untamed. Also deleted one of the photos in This Woman is Dangerous.
October 30, 2008
Added review for the "Night Gallery" episode "Eyes" to Television Acting.
October 22, 2008
Added new photo of me with Joan fans to the About Me page.
October 19, 2008
Reworked my book review of The Caretakers.
October 15, 2008
Finished review for book The Caretakers. (Star rating will be added).
September 23, 2008
Added new page for The Caretakers to Book Reviews. Review coming!
September 18, 2008
Rarely do I say anything political on this site, because I don't like mixing
politics with a site unconnected to politics. However, I want to applaud both
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin for achieving what both have against all the ferocious sexism ladled against them. These hard-working and dynamic women aimed to secure some of the highest positions
of power in America (only to have their success reduced to a “cat fight” by the press). How shameful and telling that so-called feminists seek to bash Palin (as women bashed Hillary) -- as
if feminism should be co-opted by a certain party or point of view. Actually, Palin's
added offense seems to be being very attractive. (One woman railed
that Palin showed some leg -- ya mean, because it was shapely? Who needs the birkha when you have other women to oppress
you?) Let's stop the misogynistic modern witch-burning, as evidenced against Hillary, Sarah and our Joan. Thumbs up
for sassy Clinton and Palin and to Geraldine Ferraro who paved the way!
Removed photo from About Me.
September
13, 2008
September 11, 2008
Supplied another
answer to quiz regarding "Pepsi" placements in "The Caretakers" after seeing the film tonight at the Chelsea Clearview.
(Gee, Joan looked beautiful in it, bringing her touch of classy glamour to it all -- plus a little judo!) Follow the
links in Fun with Joan Trivia to see new info. Do try to guess first, though!
Had terrible tragedy on 9-8-08
when my beloved pet betta Blue Ling died. My beautiful baby who brought so many hours of joy! RIP, my loved one!
I loved and adored you so much!
September 4, 2008
A fast shout to Shaun Considine, the fab author of Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud, who reissued the book with some juicy new information! Kindly he mentions my website and credits me in the acknowledgements for helping him
locate a photo. Bless you! Check
out the latest edition of this comic masterpiece! It had me howling!
August 17, 2008
Hello, boys and girls, blokes and birds, gals and fellas - just
to let you know --
I will be taking a little hiatus while life is a bit busy, but
will return with new stuff for my site! Thanks to all who have sent me photos or news, etc.! Bless you!
August 1, 2008
Added two photos of me with other Joan fans to the About Me page.
July 28, 2008
Reviewed next installment of "Pretty Sadie McKee" in Book Reviews and will finish review for "Crawford's Men" -- stay tuned!
July 22, 2008
Added phenomenal new photo to Possessed - breaking my self-imposed rule on photo limit! That Joan! She took too many damn good photos! Check
out this Hurrell close up! WOW! (Last photo on page)
July 17, 2008
July 15, 2008
Added e-mail address for a seller of Joan's rare
TV appearances to Television Acting. Also added partial list of his offerings to Links I Like. Check it out!!
July 1, 2008
June 25, 2008
June 24, 2008
Added dynamic new candid
photo of Joan on set of "Grand Hotel" to Grand Hotel book review.
June 19, 2008
June 14, 2008
June 2, 2008
May 23, 2008
May 22, 2008
May 18, 2008
Added link to fun site "Mrs. Mildred Pierce" to Links page. Check it out!
May 11, 2008
Replaced a photo in Photo Gallery 5 with same photo, sans watermark.
Added new Hurrell photo to Photo Gallery 12. It's above "JC never shirked her fans" photo of Joan signing autographs.
 May 10, 2008
In Memoriam Joan Crawford - Died May 10, 1977 - Rest in
Peace. We Love You, Joan!
May 6, 2008
Slight
edits to book review for Johnny Guitar.
May
5, 2008
Finally
finished book review for Letty Lynton. Pending book reviews for Crawford's Men; Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Star; and The Joan Crawford
Murders will be forthcoming.
May
1, 2008
Replaced
watermarked photos in Ice Follies of 1939 with same photos (clear of watermarks).
April
28, 2008
Added links
for The Johnny Guitar Society and Silents are Golden: Our Dancing Daughters to Links I Like page.
Also completed
Gallery 13, updating text as well.
April
27, 2008
Added photos
including one from "The Virginian" and "Rebel Ranger" (plus replaced one from "Night Gallery" with a color photo
-- see bottom of page) to Television Acting.
Added new
link for the fab site, The Divas. Yes, of course, she's Number One!
Added link
for the station that makes our dreams come true - Turner Classic Movies. Hail TCM! Where would the world be without it?
Also added
links for Concluding Chapter of Crawford; Joan Crawford: Her Life
and Career; and Joan Crawford: Queen of Camp!
April
24, 2008
Added new
photo to West Point.
Okay, I
caved in and began Photo Gallery 13!
April
23, 2008
Added new
photo to The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.
Revised
Susan and God.
April
22, 2008
Replaced
a small color lobby card with a beautiful black and white photo of the three principals in Susan and God.
April
18, 2008
Made some
slight edits to Not the Girl Next Door in Book Reviews.
April
14, 2008
Replaced
photo in Love on the Run (of Joan and Franchot dancing) with clearer version of same photo.
April
12, 2008
Made some
revisions to Winners of the Wilderness.
Fixed some
trivia in Joan Quiz. A Joan fan needs eyes everywhere! Phew!
April
11, 2008
Finalized
review for Spring Fever. Also switched around and added photos in Spring Fever and West Point.
April
4, 2008
Added new
photo to Love on the Run and deleted a different, smaller photo.
Added gorgeous new photo (bottom) to Our Dancing Daughters, which puts me over limit for that page (but I may delete a photo).
Replaced one watermarked photo with same photo sans watermark in Our Modern Maidens.
April
3, 2008
Added some
text to "Legendary Joan" link.
April
2, 2008
Deleted
a photo, enlarged another and substituted a new (dramatic) photo in Letty Lynton. There are so many "Letty" photos and Joan Crawford was so dang breathtaking in it - at the height of her youthful
beauty and glamour - that one can lose one's head!!! Restraint, restraint . . . these things must be handled delicately,
as the Wicked Witch of the West so aptly put it -- er, before she melted.
March
31, 2008
New photo
(last one) to A Woman's Face.
March
29, 2008
Added two
new photos to Daisy Kenyon, replacing entirely different photos.
March
23, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOAN!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
March
20, 2008
Added page
to Book Reviews for The Joan Crawford Murders by Peter Swanson. All reviews will be forthcoming!
March
19, 2008
Added new
photo to The Damned Don't Cry (second one from last with Steve Cochran).
March
18, 2008
Added adorable
publicity photo (bottom one) of Joan to When Ladies Meet.
Added dynamic
panorama photo to The Unknown.
March
16, 2008
Replaced
top photo of "Harriet Craig" with larger, color version of it.
March
10, 2008
Made slight revisions to Pretty Ladies.
March
9, 2008
Added new page for Winners of the Wilderness, another rare silent! Joan is exquisite in it!!!! Wow!! She's worth the whole creaky film!!
March
7, 2008
Added link
for Pretty Ladies. All outstanding reviews will be added as time permits! Very exciting to see this rare silent film at last
which featured both Joan (still Lucille LeSueur) and Myrna Loy in the chorus!
March
3, 2008
Replaced
a photo with watermark with a different photo from same session in Flamingo Road (look for photo of Joan with Cliquot on set).
Please
note that I am taking a hiatus to complete some writing assignments and will be back with site updates and our beloved gal
soon!
February
25, 2008
Light edits
to Portrait of Joan.
Added page
for Letty Lynton to Book Reviews with GORGEOUS photo of Joan in "Letty Lynton" (just had to post that photo!) Review to come, along
with other pending reviews. Stay tuned.
February
24, 2008
Finally
finished book review for Not the Girl Next Door.
February
22, 2008
Minor changes
to Female on the Beach.
February
19, 2008
Replaced a photo with watermark ("What did I do to deserve you?") with another photo (where
"Myra Hudson" overhears murder plot) in Sudden Fear.
Added to
new Charlotte Chandler review, including rare photo.
February
13, 2008
Added new
page for Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford to Book Reviews.
February
9, 2008
Finally
finished my "Baby Jane" book review.
January
31, 2008
Replaced
a photo from "The Bride Wore Red" in Gallery 9 for a much more spectacular version of same photo. Page down to see.
(Joan wedged between two admirers - what else?)
January
28, 2008
Started
working on my review of book Baby Jane. More to come.
January
17, 2008
Added page
for Henry Farrell's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane to Book Reviews. Review to come. (Three reviews are now pending!)
Added page
for Alexander Walker's Ultimate Star to Book Reviews. Review to come.
January 16, 2008
Added great photo of Joan with Milton Caniff (latter day photo) to Chained. (Removed photo of Joan with Clark and horse.)
January 15, 2008
Changed a photo in Chained, although not settled on arrangement yet.
Changed a photo in This Modern Age, although not happy with arrangement yet.
Changed photo in Torch Song (Laughing Sinners) book review to great
clinch between young beauty Joan and Neil Hamilton. (Page down to find it!)
January 6, 2008
January 5, 2008
January 4, 2008
Eventually I'll refine/edit
more reviews, but for now, I'm focused on getting them up there. Haven't forgotten about my pending review for
Crawford's Men.
January 3, 2008
January 1, 2008 (gulp!!)
Over
the past few weeks, I've been working on my most ambitious essay/opus yet Joan Crawford: My Feminist Hero. Finally finished it, although may edit it when I get a chance. See why Joan is a woman for
the ages and then some. Here’s to you, Joan! Please note, as always, that all written material on this site is under copyright of me, author, and cannot
be duplicated or borrowed without my consent. Thanks, darlings, and enjoy.
BULLETIN: I’ve
been having some trouble with my site, due to space issues and oversized photos. I
hope to resolve these issues eventually. Hang in, Joan and fans!
December 29, 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! Site will be updated once my mammoth essay (Joan
Crawford, My Feminist Hero) is finished!
December 18, 2007
Fixed an answer in Joan Trivia (thank you, Michael!) regarding JC's color films.
December 15, 2007
Added answers to Fun with Joan Puzzles page (scroll to bottom), but ONLY for those who are at rope's
end!!!! (It's my Christmas present to the fans!)
December 14, 2007
December 7-13, 2007
I’ve been
replacing a few photos that had watermarks with ones free of those eyesores. Ultimately I hope to have all photos free
of watermarks.
Made
changes in text for Photo Galleries 5 and 8 and 10 and added by-line to all galleries to keep format consistent.
Added
a new page to Book Reviews for Love on the Run.
Replaced
a photo of Joan in a stick-up with Johnny Mack Brown for a photo of her with Dorothy Sebastain in Montana Moon. Gee, the other might've been more dramatic, although Joan's eyes
certainly show their stuff in this one!
Added
a fun, new, TECHNICOLOR photo of Joan to Johnny Guitar!
December 4, 2007
Hopefully any glitches in the site will be fixed later tonight (fyi!)
Will finish all pages/reviews in progress!
December 3, 2007
December 2, 2007
Replaced
header photo for one sans watermark in Montana Moon and replaced a large photo with entirely different one of Joan doing a tango
(above last photo).
December 1, 2007
Added photo I love to death(!!!)
of Joan reacting to fans plus an extra "fan" photo - see bottom of Contact Me page. (We love you, too, Joan!) (Also removed color photo that had been on this page.)
November 29, 2007
November 27, 2007
Replaced watermark photo with clean one in Mannequin and substituted a better photo (finally free of watermark!) for a prior one
in Laughing Sinners.
November 26, 2007
November 18, 2007
November 14, 2007
Added link for Joan Crawford Heaven and deleted link for Sincerely Joan. Sadly, Sincerely Joan seems to have gone by the wayside.
It had such a nice opening page, too, with the "Queen Bee" montage!
Added page for Crawford's Men by Jane Ellen Wayne to Book Reviews. Review to come! Stay tuned!
November 13, 2007
November 11, 2007
Added Photo Gallery 11!!! Check it out! I hope to stop at a dozen galleries!! (We live in hope, as Wally Fay says in "Mildred
Pierce.")
Also rearranged Photo Gallery 1. I'm working on finishing my review of "The Divine Feud." Stay tuned!
November 9, 2007
Hey, kids! The Joan Crawford Fan Club is up and
running, so please, everyone, join up! It is headquartered in England. Here's the link: JC Fan Club
November 8, 2007
November 7, 2007
Completed review for When Ladies Meet, the play. Please note length of play reviews to be eventually trimmed. Stay tuned.
November 4, 2007
Added fab new photo (first one after review) to Untamed.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2007
Made slight revision
to Trog.
Added names of foreign
books to Book Reviews, but no links provided, since work unavailable in English; will be reviewed if English
translation located.
All Hallowed
Eve's Eve
Added FAB! FAB!
FAB! new poster to Queen Bee -- my favorite yet! (Finally figured out how to add links to pages,
so just click on link to see!)
October
28, 2007
Added
new review for "Harriet Craig" to Book Reviews under "Miscellaneous Plays Made into Films."
Rearranged photos
in Photo Gallery 9 after replacing small photos with larger versions of same. (Looks better to my eye! Check it out!)
October
26, 2007
Edits
to "Female on the Beach," "Goodbye, My Fancy," "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" and "The Shining Hour" in Book Reviews (Miscellaneous Plays Made into Films) and added review for brilliant play "Forsaking All Others" to same page.
Made a few minor edits to "Pretty Sadie McKee" in Book Reviews and fixed some photos and captions in Photo Gallery 6 and 9.
October
24, 2007
Replaced a photo
in Susan and God with better version of same photo.
October
23, 2007
Added Photo Gallery 10. Will be putting up new review for "Craig's Wife" to Book Reviews.
October
17, 2007
Shaved down some
of the reviews for plays made into films under Book Reviews - "Miscellaneous Plays Made into Films.'
October
15, 2007
Added review for
the Fay Kanin play "Goodbye, My Fancy" to Book Reviews. See "Miscellaneous Plays Made into Films."
October
11, 2007
Added glorious new
photo to Rain.
October
10, 2007
Added new photo
to Susan and God under Book Reviews ("Miscellaneous Plays Made into Films").
Finished book
review for play "The Women" found under "Miscellaneous Plays Made into Films."
October
3, 2007
Added fab new photo to Harriet Craig. Replaced a color one with this one.
October
2, 2007
September
29, 2007
Trying to keep down length of play reviews. Made edits to the following plays under Book Reviews:
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney; The Shining Hour; Susan and God; and Torch Song. Again, these can
be found under "Miscellaneous Plays Made Into Films." (Don't worry, kids! I haven't forgotten about my pending,
unfinished book review of The Divine Feud! I'll get to it eventually! Rome wasn't built in a day!)
September
28, 2007
Added new review
for "The Shining Hour" to Book Reviews under "Plays Made Into Films."
September
26, 2007
Added new review
for "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," the original play, in Book Reviews under "Plays Made Into Films."
September
25, 2007
Added new book review
to Book Reviews for William Faulkner's "Turn About," the basis for the film Today We Live. Franchot Tone's upside-down
pipe was no accident, folks!
September 23, 2007
Added more to Photo Gallery 9! Stay tuned!
September 15, 2007
Replaced photo in Across to Singapore with even cuter photo.
Added review for "Torch Song" which was the basis for Laughing Sinners to Book
Reviews under "Plays Made Into Films."
Some edits to review of play Susan and God.
September 12, 2007
Added new review for the play "Susan and God" to Book Reviews under "Plays
Made Into Films."
September 11, 2007
Added new review for "The Besieged Heart," the source for "Female on the Beach," to Book
Reviews under "Plays Made Into Films."
Began new photo gallery - Photo Gallery 9!
August 24, 2007
Added new photo to The Shining Hour.
August
23, 2007
The first year
anniversary of my site!!!!
Edited some text in Photo Gallery 3. (This note is mainly for me, since
I keep a hard copy of my entire site and want it to match what is online.)
Started a page for "Miscellaneous Plays Into
Films" on Book Reviews page. It's a work in progress, including the format.
August 22, 2007
Substituted
one good shot for a shot I like more in Our Dancing Daughters.
August 21, 2007
Found
a dupe photo in Photo Gallery 5, so removed it and substituted a beautiful shot of Joan and Franchot in "Dancing
Lady."
Replaced
two photos in Sadie McKee. (The first anniversary of this website is coming in two days! Mama is proud!)
August 20, 2007
Added
photos to Love on the Run and Our Dancing Daughters. Replaced one of the photos in Love on the
Run.
August 19, 2007
Added
new photos to Autumn Leaves and The Women.
August 17, 2007
Added
endearing photo of Joan with book to the bottom of Book Reviews page.
Added
photo to I Live My Life.
Added
colorized photo to The Women.
August 16, 2007
Replaced
photo in Laughing Sinners.
Photo
Gallery 8 is filling with truly fabulous photos - very large and clear! Check out the "Mildred Pierce" doll in
the gallery!!
Also
added photos to Across to Singapore, The Caretakers, Montana Moon (two), Sadie McKee (rearranged photos
there), This Modern Age and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
Replaced
photo in Daisy Kenyon and Dance, Fools, Dance.
Added
fab photo of Joan signing books to "A Portrait of Joan" in Book Reviews.
August 15, 2007
Added dynamic new ad for film "Sadie McKee" to "Pretty Sadie McKee" review in Book
Reviews. Features original cover of "Liberty Magazine!"
August 14, 2007
Added
more to my review of "Pretty Sadie McKee" in Book Reviews, plus gorgeous illustration from original "Libery Magazine"
in which it appeared.
August 13, 2007
Added great new photo to Sudden Fear and Photo Gallery 8 is slowly
expanding.
August 11, 2007
Added
new page for "Claustrophobia," the short story that became I Live My Life to Book Reviews.
Fixed
Dr. Macro's link on Links I Like page.
August 10, 2007
Replaced
photos with watermarks with same photos without in The Gay Connection to Joan, Our Blushing Brides, Photo Gallery 2, and
Photo Gallery 4.
Added
new photo to Chained.
Gulp!
Started Photo Gallery 8.
August 8, 2007
Finally
finished Photo Gallery 7.
August 6, 2007
Edits
to last paragraph of My Way of Life book review.
August 3, 2007
Today
Turners Classic Movies devotes the WHOLE DAY
to Joan!! Rock
on!
August 2, 2007
Replaced
header photo in Daisy Kenyon with the same photo sans watermark. (Eventually I will replace all photos with
watermarks currently on the site with watermark-free photos.)
Added
new photo and irreverent text to The Story of Esther Costello.
August 1, 2007
Added
photo to They All Kissed the Bride and enlarged and rearranged other photos!
July 31, 2007
Added
photo to Our Dancing Daughters.
July 30, 2007
Added
new review for "And One Was Loyal" to Television Acting.
July 29, 2007
Added
one new photo to Goodbye, My Fancy (top one) and eliminated an older one.
Added
beautiful color lobby card to Dance, Fools Dance and eliminated tiny black and white photo.
July
28, 2007
Enlarged
portrait in A Portrait of Joan essay.
Added
new photo to Across from Singapore.
July 27, 2007
Added
review for "One Must Die" to Television Acting. Joan as twins! Check it out! Did some pruning to reviews
for "Rebel Ranger," "One Must Die" (already), "Journey to the Unknown," and "Nightmare" in same category.
July 26, 2007
Replaced
one of the photos in Portrait of Joan essay with a larger one, sans watermark. (My ideal is to eventually replace
all photos with watermarks). Also continue to add to Photo Gallery 7.
Added gorgeous up-close inset of Joan (making it number 7, above my self-imposed
limit) to photos in Humoresque.
July 25, 2007
Added
review for "Strange Witness" to Television Acting and made a few additions and corrections to "Because I Love Him"
in same category.
Made
some edits to last paragraph of "A Portrait of Joan" in Book Reviews.
July 24, 2007
Added
reviews for "Because I Love Him" and "The Road to Edinburgh" to Television Acting.
July 23, 2007
Added
photo to Female on the Beach.
July 19, 2007
Hold
onto your hats! I've started Photo Gallery 7! This girl can't help it!
July 14, 2007
Added more of book review for "Pretty Sadie McKee" to Book Reviews, along
with another illustration from the original magazine.
July 13, 2007
Fixing
little things as I see them. Added publication dates for "Humoresque" and "Pretty Sadie McKee" in Book Reviews.
Fixed font in "Queen Bee" book review and made some edits to "Why Should I Cry?" book review (basis for Torch Song.)
Added
new art to Hollywood Canteen.
July 12, 2007
Lightly
revised "One Man's Secret" in Book Reviews (the story basis for "Possessed" 1947).
July 11, 2007
Made correction to Berserk.
Thank you, Simon!
July 10, 2007
Added
great color lobby card to Berserk. Also fixed a few glitches with Photo Gallery and Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane.
Made
small correction to The Caretakers.
July 7, 2007
Yep,
without telling anyone, I've been adding to Photo Gallery 6. Check it out. The second installment of
"Sadie McKee" book review is coming and eventually I'll finish my "Divine Feud" book review. Rome wasn't built in a
day, darlings, and in between, I must do my nails!
June 26, 2007
Added
photos for It's a Great Feeling, The Story of Esther Costello, and more to Photo Gallery 6.
June 22, 2007
Added
a review for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and more photos to Photo Gallery 6.
Corrected
a plot point in Queen Bee and made some mild revisions to Berserk and Baby Jane reviews.
June 19, 2007
Added
new photo to Our Modern Maidens with text! Joan, such a sweet young thing being menaced by a brooding cad!
June 18, 2007
Added new photo to Our Modern Maidens and lots of new photos to Photo
Gallery 6. Many more to come!
June 15, 2007
Began
new gallery - Photo Gallery 6 - with a red hot photo of Joan! Wow! Get ready for the next batch
of fifty (50) fab photos of the Ultimate Star!
June 14, 2007
Added new photo to The Best of Everything. If anyone can please help
me identify the woman in the photo with Joan, I'd appreciate it! Thank you!
Added
new link to a brilliantly satirical and delightful blog "All About Margo" to the Links I Like page. Travel
with Margo through time into the Golden Age of Hollywood where our gal is up to her minks in soap suds and mirrors!
Added
new review for "The Virginian" episode "Nightmare" to Television Acting. Yep, our gal was out West again!
And what fun she is on the range!
June 12, 2007
I
enlarged the photos of Joan on my Joan and Diana essay page. (Sorry, Diana, but it is Joan's site!)
Also enlarged photos on Portrait of Joan page.
Added
new photo for Daisy Kenyon (again, breaking my six-photos-per-review rule)
Added
new review for "One Man's Secret," the basis for the 1947 film "Possessed" to Book Reviews page. Check
it out!
June 8, 2007
Added
photo to Dancing Lady.
June 5, 2007
Changed the color photo in The Bride
Wore Red to another color photo, since the original photo was an exact duplicate of a black and white version.
June 4, 2007
Added
page for "Pretty Sadie McKee" by Vina Delmar to Book Reviews. Reviews for this and The Divine Feud
will be coming soon!
June 2, 2007
Added
new photo to Dance, Fools, Dance.
June 1, 2007
Added
new photo to I Saw What You Did.
Added
new book review for "The Complete Films of Joan Crawford" to Book Reviews.
May 30, 2007
Added
new "mini-review" for "Journey to the Unknown" in Television Acting. Joan is hostess of this chiller!
Check it out!
May 29, 2007
Added
a sweet candid of Joan dancing with Franchot to Love on the Run and substituted one clinch for a sexier one in Mannequin.
May 24, 2007
Added
new photos (and changed around a few) to: Autumn Leaves; Goodbye My Fancy; Possessed (47); The Shining Hour; and
Susan and God.
May 22, 2007
Finished review
of "A Portrait of Joan" for Book Reviews.
Broke
one of my own cardinal rules of photo limits for reviews! Added stunning new photo to Letty Lynton (sorry,
Joan looked so damned gorgeous, I couldn't resist!) and great new candid photos to Above Suspicion and Johnny
Guitar.
May 21, 2007
Added
new review for short story "Why Should I Cry?" by I.A.R. Wylie (basis for "Torch Song") to Book Reviews.
May 20, 2007
Replaced
a "Grand Hotel" photo in Photo Gallery 5 with another photo, since original photo was already on the site. (Hey - can't keep track of all these glorious images!) Also switched
two color photos - put one from Gallery 5 into Contact Me page and vice versa.
Revised
Strait-Jacket.
Added
to Female on the Beach.
May 19, 2007
Made some corrections to Links page. If your link changes, please
let me know, so I can update! Thanks!
May 18, 2007
Replaced
two photos in Torch Song with beautiful, COLOR photos.
May 17, 2007
Photo
Gallery 5 is finally ready.
Put
up new page in Book Reviews for "A Portrait of Joan."
May 16, 2007
Added
great COLOR poster to Strait-Jacket.
Added
over-heated COLOR photo to Female on the Beach.
Added
new COLOR photo to Ice Follies of 1939. Completed Photo Gallery 5.
Completed
book review for Within the Law.
May 14, 2007
Added
new page for Within the Law (novel basis for film Paid) to Book Reviews. Review will be forthcoming!
May 11, 2007
Revised
the book review of Humoresque.
David
Cerda, Joan fan, who runs Hell in a Handbag Productions (see my links), has started fab new group - The Joans! Yep,
it's Joan -- as a rock star! See the new link! Too much fun! Tim Curry and Meatloaf, eat your hearts out!
Added
to Photo Gallery 5.
May 10, 2007
Rest in Peace, Joan! You are loved!
May 8, 2007
Started
Photo Gallery 5. Do the dazzling photos ever end? Check it out!
May 3, 2007
Completed
my Raging Star book review! Check it out.
Added
lovely new close-up to No More Ladies. It's above the last photo.
Fixed
font in Dancing Lady book review. (Those pesky fonts!)
April 30, 2007
Added
genuine 1950's article dispensing housewifely advice to Harriet Craig.
April 26, 2007
Added
photo to Grand Hotel.
Added
campy poster to Queen Bee plus two new photos to Possessed (1947) and replaced a photo in Strange Cargo.
Replaced
a photo in This Woman is Dangerous. The new one is fab!
Added
beautiful poster to Flamingo Road.
April 25, 2007
Added
several new links to Links page.
Added
new photos to Above Suspicion and Chained.
Working
on The Divine Feud book review and hope to have it finished by this weekend. Will also attempt to wrap up Raging
Star.
April 24, 2007
Added
new photo to The Unknown.
Added
great color photo to The Best of Everything.
Finished
Answers page (almost) to Fun with Joan Trivia. Added loads of photos (what else?)
April 23, 2007
Shaved
questions on Fun with Joan Trivia page down to an even twelve. Can't have anyone imploding on me.
April 19, 2007
Began
new page - Fun with Joan Trivia. Test your mettle if you dare, but don't expect to get the answers
easily! I've endeavored not to include questions that would be plot spoilers. Give it a go! And don't cheat.
April 18, 2007
Added
new photo to Sadie McKee and changed some picture frames.
Still
working on Divine Feud book review.
April 17, 2007
Completed
Photo Gallery 4. Check it out!
Added
new page to Book Reviews for The Divine Feud. Review will be forthcoming! Also will finish review
for Raging Star! Haven't forgotten it! Hope to give it my full attention soon!
April 16, 2007
Made
some font corrections in Photo Gallery 2, Photo Gallery 3 and Photo Gallery 4.
Corrected
some punctuation in This Woman is Dangerous.
April 15, 2007
Another
Photo Gallery underway - number 4!! Look out!
Added
review for Hollywood Canteen. Check it out!
Added
three new photos to Hollywood Canteen.
April 13, 2007
Added two fab photos - one to Above Suspicion and one to Johnny Guitar.
April 12, 2007
Added
two more delicious photos to Rain. Check it out!
Revised
new book review for Our Dancing Daughters.
April 11, 2007
Finished book review for Our Dancing Daughters.
April 9, 2007
Continued
work on my book review for Our Dancing Daughters.
April 5, 2007
Added
great new photo to Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
Mentioned
"The Sixth Sense" is the subtitle of the "Night Gallery" episode "Dear Joan" in Television Acting. Thanks,
Simon, for pointing that out!
April 4, 2007
Started
my book review for Our Dancing Daughters. Hey, hey, hey!
April 3, 2007
Completed my book review for Dancing
Lady.
Added
new photo for I Live My Life.
April 2, 2007
Added
great new photos for Across to Singapore and Untamed.
Began
review of novel Dancing Lady for Book Reviews.
Revised
review of Mannequin again.
April 1, 2007
Revised
review of Mannequin.
March 31, 2007
Added
beautiful new photo to Our Blushing Brides. Check it out!
March 30, 2007
Removed two photos from The Best of Everything book review. Added photos
to book reviews of Dancing Lady; Flamingo Road; and Humoresque.
March 29, 2007
Removed
word from book review of The Best of Everything.
Slight
revisions to book reviews for Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep and Humoresque.
Book
cover photos will be coming for several of my book reviews. Right now my Photo Gallery is under repair. Stay tuned!
March 28, 2007
Added
new book review for Humoresque to Book Reviews.
March 27, 2007
Added
new page for book review of Dancing Lady. This review and the other pending reviews will be forthcoming!
Stay tuned!
March 26, 2007
Added
dates written to book reviews of The Best of Everything; Out of the Dark; and Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep.
Added
new book review for Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep, basis for film "Strange Cargo."
Added
new photos for Dancing Lady, Goodbye My Fancy; Ice Follies of 1939; Love on the Run; and Paid.
Completed
Photo Gallery 3.
Book
reviews for Our Dancing Daughters and Joan Crawford: The Raging Star forthcoming!
Stay tuned!
March 25, 2007
Added
to Photo Gallery 3.
March 23, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOAN!!!! We love
you!!!
Added new book review for Out of the Dark (basis for the film
I Saw What You Did).
Still tinkering with Photo Gallery 3.
March 21, 2007
Added
more photos to Photo Gallery 3.
March 20, 2007
Added
new link to a site I fell madly in love with! Check it out on Links page! Miss Vintage! Think pink!
Eliminated
one line I had added a few days ago to Sudden Fear.
Completed
my book review of Conversations with Joan Crawford.
Added
to Photo Gallery 3. Check out all the new photos!!!
March 19, 2007
Added
to Photo Gallery 3 and to book review for Conversations with Joan Crawford.
March 17, 2007
Oops, I did it again, as Britney Spears says. But why not? Began Photo
Gallery 3 with fifty more photos of our gal to come!
Added
new page to Book Reviews for Our Dancing Daughters. Review upcoming. Also working on completing
two outstanding book reviews for Conversations with Crawford and Raging Star. Stay tuned, folks!
March 16, 2007
Finished
my book review for The Best of Everything.
Light
revisions to Sudden Fear.
March 15, 2007
Added
to Conversations with Crawford review. Keep checking, folks!
Lightly
edited my introduction. As my site expands, the intro needed to be revised to include all the many facets of Crawford's
life and career I'm covering here. More to come! Oh, much, much more!
Added
new link for The Best of Everything to Book Reviews. Review will be forthcoming. Plan to finish
reviews for three books: Conversations with Joan Crawford; The Best of Everything; and The Raging Star.
March 14, 2007
Fixed
some of the fonts in book reviews. Added to my Conversations with Crawford review.
Added book jacket photo to Queen Bee and substituted a color lobby photo
for a different black and white photo in When Ladies Meet.
March 13, 2007
Added
new link for Conversations with Joan Crawford to Book Reviews. Review will be forthcoming!
Added
photo of Crawford that inspired illustration to book review of Marilyn Henry's Joan Crawford Paper Dolls.
Gave
extra star to book Queen Bee.
March 12, 2007
Completed
review of "Queen Bee" for Book Reviews. May edit it yet.
Added
new photo to Laughing Sinners.
Began
editing and adding to review for novel "Queen Bee." It's not soup yet!
Will
be adding a new column of Joan trivia! Stay tuned!
March 8, 2007
Added
new book review for Marilyn Henry's Joan Crawford paper dolls to Book Reviews.
March 7, 2007
Added
"grandstanding," fun photo of Joan with her young co-stars to I Saw What You Did.
Working
on new book review for "Queen Bee" for Book Reviews page (what else?). Stay tuned!
March 5, 2007
Lightly
revised new book review of "The Story of Esther Costello."
Added
new book review for "The Story of Esther Costello" to Book Reviews.
March 4, 2007
Working
on review of "The Story of Esther Costello" for Book Reviews.
February 26, 2007
Completed
review of book "Mildred Pierced" by Stuart M. Kaminsky in Book Reviews. Check it out! Joan Crawford is
a character in the mystery!
February 24, 2007
Hiatus
due to family emergency. Things on the upswing! Worked a little more on my Grand Hotel book review!
Stay tuned, boys and girls!
Okay!
Completed Grand Hotel book review! Revised a few times.
February 7, 2007
Revised
my review of The Damned Don't Cry.
Fixed
one sentence in Flamingo Road.
February 6, 2007
Revised
my review of Possessed (1947).
Added
new link to Lynn's Classic Movie Favorites/Joan Crawford page!
February 1, 2007
Still
working on "Grand Hotel" review for Book Reviews.
January 30, 2007
Began
my review of "Grand Hotel" for Book Reviews. Stay tuned. More is coming! (And yes, I do promise
to finish my half-started review of "Joan Crawford: Raging Star.")
January 29, 2007
Added
review for The Boob.
January 28, 2007
Revised
my introduction to Photo Gallery 2.
Completed
Photo Gallery 2. All are subject to change.
January 25, 2007
More
photos added to Photo Gallery 2.
January 24, 2007
Added
more photos to Photo Gallery 2. May change photos at later date; it's a work in progress.
Added
artwork for "Grand Hotel" in Book Reviews. Plan to read and review the book in February and am preparing the
slot for it. (Haven't forgotten about my half-started review for "Joan Crawford: Raging Star." I have a
lot to say and will complete it at a later date when I can give it my full attention. Stay tuned!)
January 23, 2007
Added
more photos to Photo Gallery 2. Still working on this, kids! The paint's not dry yet!
Fixed
one word in my newly revised review of Flamingo Road.
January 22, 2007
Revised
review of Flamingo Road.
Replaced a photo of Joan with Franchot Tone and Robert Young with a better photo of same
in The Bride Wore Red. Check it out!
Added
more photos to Photo Gallery 2.
Added
huge lobby card to A Woman's Face.
Added
new photo from "Humoresque" to Photo Gallery 2. Stay tuned for more incredible shots of our gorgeous gal.
(And yes, even in the 30's, Joan plugged Coca Cola! Who knew?)
January 19, 2007
In
the process of adding Photo Gallery 2 with fifty (50) (count 'em!) more photos of our gal!
Fixed
fonts on "Legends" book review (pesky little things!)
Added
text and shuffled around links on Links I Like page.
January 18, 2007
Made
small tweaks to It's a Great Feeling.
Finished
my book review of Legends for Book Reviews page.
January 17, 2007
New
book review for Legends in the process of being added to Book Reviews.
Added
new photo to I Live My Life.
January 16, 2007
Added
new photo to Daisy Kenyon (one of Daisy and Tubby) and new photo to Flamingo Road (leggy Joan ad!)
Revised
newly revised review of Across to Singapore.
January 15, 2007
Revised
review of Across to Singapore.
January 12, 2007
Added
new link to Adam's wonderful site offering a comprehensive list of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis film and television
appearances in high quality DVD format! Check it out!
January 11, 2007
Added
beautiful color lobby card to This Modern Age.
January 10, 2007
Added
new photo to It's a Great Feeling. Hope to get a color photo of our gal from this film eventually! As
Wally Fay says in Mildred Pierce, "We live in hope!"
January 9, 2007
Finished
review for Hollywood Revue of 1929.
Created
new review for It's a Great Feeling.
January 8, 2007
Added producers for MGM to Master List of Films page. Please do e-mail if
you detect any errors on this page or any other on my site. I strive for accuracy and your input is much appreciated!
Began
review for Hollywood Revue of 1929. Unfortunately, I have taken ill and was unable to continue. Stay
tuned!
December 27, 2006
Taking a little break for the holidays, kids, but please stay tuned! I'll be back with my gal Joan and updates in 2007!
December 20, 2006
Fixed
the spacing of photos in The Bride Wore Red and Humoresque. (Honestly, I don't know what happens with
formatting. It looks fine when I set these things up, then several days later it gets funky as if the formatting gets
impish on its own -- or is it those site masters in India?)
A
small edit to Today We Live.
December 19, 2006
Revised
my review of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.
December 18, 2006
Itsy-witsy
teeny-weeny edit to Berserk.
December 11, 2006
Added
gorgeous profile shot of Joan to Grand Hotel. (Can you ever have too many of those?)
Light
tweaks to Possessed (1931).
Added
larger photo to Sadie McKee. Yes, sometimes bigger is better.
A
beautiful Joan portrait (with Melvyn Douglas) was added to The Gorgeous Hussy.
December 10, 2006
Added
a few new photos to Possessed (1931) and some extra text. Revised review of same!
December 9, 2006
Added
photo to This Woman is Dangerous.
December 8, 2006
Revised
review for West Point.
December 7, 2006
Added
review for West Point.
December 6, 2006
Added
new photo to Contact Me page.
Added
beautiful candid photo to West Point. What a pretty girl Joan was!
Added
lovely candid photo to Dancing Ladies.
December 5, 2006
Added
beautiful color magazine cover to The Story of Esther Costello.
December 4, 2006
Revised
Our Modern Maidens.
Replaced
the main photo in Dance Fools Dance with one that was sans watermark.
December 1, 2006
Added
new photo I love to Reunion in France.
November 30, 2006
Added
photo of Carl Johnes' "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" Pepsi cooler to my book review of Crawford: The Last Years.
Added
new candid photo to Strange Cargo.
November 29, 2006
Added
addendum describing special experience to my book review of Crawford: The Last Years.
November 28, 2006
Added
new picture to Television Acting..
Added
fab new picture to Humoresque. (For the reviews, my self-imposed max for photos is six per film!)
November 27, 2006
Revision
of Today We Live complete!
November 26, 2006
Began
revising Today We Live, but it is still in progress.
November 22, 2006
Added link
to a wonderful new Joan Crawford website!
November 21, 2006
Added
three new photos to Today We Live. (Hope to revise that review soon!)
November 18, 2006
Tweaked
a few reviews: Berserk and I Saw What You Did.
Replaced several
photos in Photo Gallery. (There are so many photos I wish I could include! Alas! It takes restraint.)
Added
photo to A Woman's Face and added the name of Melvyn Douglas' character.
November 17, 2006
Added
new review of Trog.
November 16, 2006
Added
new candid photo to The Damned Don't Cry.
November 13, 2006
Added
two new photos to Mannequin.
November 10, 2006
Some
tweaks to my reviews in Television Acting.
November 9, 2006
Revised "Dear Joan, We're Going to Scare You to Death" review for Television
Acting.
Added the 50th photo to the Photo Gallery. This only
a small taste of the endless array of fab Joan Crawford photos out there and if only I could include several hundred more! But,
alas, I have to apply the brakes some time! Enjoy!
Added new "on the set" photo to Flamingo Road.
Will be lightly revising this review in the near future as well. Stay tuned.
Added terrific candid photo to Humoresque. Also added
text next to this photo! Check it out!
New review up for "Rebel Range" under Television Acting. (Thank
you to Stephanie Jones for making that collection for me!)
November 8, 2006
Added two new photos to When Ladies Meet.
November 7, 2006
Added review for "Route 66" episode to Television Acting. Yep,
my reviews are getting longer on this page. Thank you, Tom Lowery, wherever you are, for your generosity in giving me
tapes.
November 6, 2006
Added great new Joan photo to Photo Gallery. (Joan,
Uncle! Uncle! Too many photos, too little time unless we're as organized as she was!)
Added lengthy review of "Della" to Television Acting.
November 4, 2006
Wonder no more about those 1950's bustlines! Even Della
Street of "Perry Mason" appeared to have filed her boobs into
points like No. 2 pencils. Added a bra ad endorsed by Joan to Torch Song.
Joan, you're intrepid!
Added photo to Berserk.
November 3, 2006
Added new photo to Photo Gallery.
Added book review for Joan Crawford: My Life in Letters.
November 1, 2006
Revised The Unknown and added photo.
Removed an adjective from Our Dancing Daughters (hey -- it was bothering me!) and replaced a photo
in the Photo Gallery with a gorgeous new one (the previous photo appears
elsewhere on the site).
Halloween 2006
Added new review for The Caretakers.
October 30, 2006
Revised Montana Moon.
Added great photo to Autumn Leaves.
October 27, 2006
New photo for Torch Song.
Gently
revised Paid.
Added gorgeous new photo to Our Modern Maidens.
One more tweak to the revised Untamed!
Added new book review for Joan Crawford: Raging Star, although
it is still in progress! Stay tuned!
October 26, 2006
Added gorgeous photo to Photo Gallery page and one to Chained.
Revised Untamed.
October 25, 2006
Added "directors" and "producers" to Master List of Films.
Added photos to Susan and God and Torch
Song.
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