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  • I loved that she defined a love story as a man with short hair and a woman with long hair. Not good acting or a nice story or acting...you can also tell that she has no respect for that man interviewing her. He is being kind and polite and discussing interesting things and she just interrupts like she is still a huge star. But by that te she was hardly a huge star anymore. She was obsessed with her image and fame.

  • You can see the EVIL behind those dark eyes .....YUCK !! And she wasn't that good of an actor either ...xo

  • Biatch

  • George Cukor was THE director whom all the great leading ladies of the time wanted to work with. Greta knew it - Joan did as well, The "two Judy's" (Garland and Holliday!) had their greatest film triumphs with Mr. C. And, Marilyn Monroe, would insist upon having him as her director a bit later. It all added to the same thing - the brilliant "women's director" was called George Cukor.

  • What a piece of trash.

  • I love watching all of Joan Crawford's old movies, especially, "The Women," "Mildred Pierce," "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane," "Grand Hotel," really, there are so many wonderful movies in which she gave wonderful performances -- I love them all!!!

  • One of the great actresses. Loads of class.

  • I love how she is gracious but still manages to make even a question about Elizabeth Taylor all about her! A true star!

  • What year was this interview ?

  • I like Joan Crawford. Was she really a lesbian? I read in a book that she and Marilyn Monroe had an affair. I don't particularly believe it, but whatever floats her boat.

  • @nj8562 : Yes, there were rumors but all were dispelled by those who knew her well. Crawford was very critical of Monroe, and known to be an insatiable man-eater...while that too is rumored it seems to be something many who know her well have agreed to. However who the hell really knows Ms Crawford is a legend with a an alluring mystique which still today keeps the flames burning.

  • This is one self-absorbed woman. Notice how, right up front, she grandstands and makes it known that she was a star before Liz Taylor. At least it was decent of her to acknowledge that it was wrong of her to publically criticize Taylor's private life. But one thing she said that I absolutely agree with: "The world is so angry; I'm no Cinderella, but by golly, the world is so angry." But regardless of what kind of woman she was, she was one heck of an actress.

  • I understand what she's saying about the past. The sad part about these comments is that it makes the person saying them seem antiquated and out of touch, which diminishes and trivializes its truth. The way we see ourselves is the way we treat others and ourselves. Respect lives in the heart and mind. When it dies, humanity goes with it. Anger for the sake of anger becomes fashionable and anything else is laughed at.

  • She is So articulate never 'erms' once. She is so poised and elequent.

  • we went from joan crawford to megan fox. "so much talent to be made or lost". touche ms. crawford, touche.

  • is this pussy dead or no if this pussy dead i am happy

  • "You manufacture toys, not stars." Very sage observation. 

  • Joan Crawford's comment about Elizabeth Taylor becoming one of the "finest actresses on the screen that I've ever seen" is accurate, in light of Taylor's performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1967) I'm not sure if Crawford's interview was after 1967? If so, then I'm sure her praise of Taylor is based on that performance. Truly, the most compelling film performance in the history of cinema. Joan's portrayal of Mildred Pierce is also great. With the right script and director..Magic!

  • joan didnt like taylor when she was first starting. no big deal.

  • Wow Joan redeemed herself with the whole Elizabeth Taylor issue

  • I'm amazed that she came from humble beginnings. She carried herself with such dignity and grace, and spoke with such wonderful diction and intelligence, that it's hard to believe that she didn't have a privileged youth. She was a self-made woman, who became something grand due to her own talent and determination. I admire her greatly. <3

  • @bloodncorsets Amen! You hit the nail on the head. Joan Crawford had guts and great determination. She made it on raw talent. What a great actress. Even if the picture wasn't great, Joan's performance was.

  • I notice that in all these interviews, I don't recall Crawford saying the phrase so common nowadays: "You Know" .

  • the difference between old hollywood and todays whores that play in movies.

  • @xxjoni23 Is Luka Magnotta Elizabeth Taylors cousin?

  • She's totally wasted. I love it. Also, I do like that she apologized for throwing shade at Taylor. (Karma, as we know so infamously know, is a bitch.)

  • Love Joan, she was such a beautiful person.

  • Joan aged much more gracefully than Liz Taylor....Ellizabeth Taylor looked in need of exercise and slimming down...regretfully, she looked gross and bloated, unhealthy, I'm sorry but she did, ...

  • @n0iwont liz did go throu an ugly spell,,but she came back lookin hot when she was selling.. " white Diamonds "

    She had lots on medical problems - that will make u gain weight!

  • @martind586 .. I still think Liz made no effort to eat less and be more active, regardless of possible hypochondria because she was lonely and losing her youth.. she always gave the impression of being falsely frail, like a great big cossetted doll...she really did not age gracefully or naturally. She could've been stunning ..but she resorted to horrific bouffanted dyed hair, and harsh eye makeup...oh well, if that's what she preferred....who am I to say otherwise?

  • @n0iwont I've said it before and you are right. Some people don't like it when you say it but it was true. She did not age well.

  • according to mommie dearest, mayer fired joan cause her movies weren't making much.

  • @exbronco1980 yes because he was giving her the worst scripts, instead of the better ones she was entitled to.

  • Holy crap she looks 35 i wonder if shed have aged good with out all that surgery

  • Anybody know what year this is from?

  • Joan aged beautifully :)

  • she spoke about peace in the world and at the same time she bet her child black and blue day in and day out!! CRAZY WOMAN.

  • 1:06 Handsome, uh?

  • What year did she do this?

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  • Very nostalgic for me. I remember when people actually looked like this. And Joan was every inch a star—smart, stylish, strong and sophisticated. This clip is a refreshing break from our current world of bad manners and unrelenting grunge.

  • who is the presenter?

  • One thing that does come across about Ms Joan Crawford is that she is highly intelligent and very able to handle interviews with great flair.

  • if only her ungrateful daughter hadn't written that BS book, maybe nowadays Joan Crawford would be remembered by most as a great actress and person, and not a crazy lady as depicted in the book+movie...it's very unfair because she wasn't alive when it happened, she couldn't tell her side of the story, she couldn't defend herself..cowardice much

  • @erikazilla - Amen!! A few people know the truth, but just those of us who care about research. People in general would rather believe the worst, which just ticks me off, frankly! That book and esp the film were fiction and camp.

    What year was this interview, does anyone know? Joan is very beautiful here, i love her silver hair.

  • @erikazilla Amen! I love Ms. Crawford!

  • @erikazilla Her daughter spoke from a bias, but I'm not surprised that some of it was true. When she said that she quit MGM, that was a lie. If it were not for her daughter's book, we wouldn't have glimpsed that micro expression of hers that reflected contempt. "So much money to be made or lost: stars to be made or lost." was the most truthful statement that came from her own experience.

  • She does look like she could terorize little kiddies

  • which year?

  • I love Joan's comment from 3:09 to 3:22. It is indeed too much an angry world today. Men should get their hair cut, and ladies let theirs grow, and bring romance back into films. The world would be so much more a beautiful and lovely place. She was so right. Unfortunately, things have never panned since Joan made this comment.

  • @mrshinyshoes I agree with almost everything she said except men cutting their hair. There are men who doesn't look good with short hair but cute with bangs and yet they have class & substance w/ big dicks and full of cum.

  • @mrshinyshoes naaw come on! That is a lot of bull crap. You cannot just show romantic films all the time because that wouldn't be sincere, you have to have diversity though.

  • Joan was a troubled woman--but she was also a talented star---sometimes you can't have it all

  • well, now, Joan and Liz can duke it out in heaven--no seriously, I'm sure they are both spiritually above feuds by now.

  • she was beautiful

  • she was a real star

  • she is scarry, so phoney that it makes me wonder if there is a person in there or not.

  • lol every time i see this woman i think of NO WIRE HANGERS

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  • Old Hollywood actors and actress were stars!!! Nowadays these people are celebrities!

  • Joan was so beautiful she had an amazing face!!

  • A 'sizemologist,' Miss etrax2000, is otherwise known as a 'size-enthusiast', in other words a woman who does not allow anything under 8 inches(on the tape measure) to penetrate her parts! We can proudly confirm that we are a sizemologist as well!

  • The interviewer appears to be a homosexual.

    Discuss.

  • @mrspatrickcampbell just brittish ;not much difference to some.. but a lawyer and a lawsuit might proove different !

  • Was Joan a sizemologist?

  • @mrspatrickcampbell you mean scientologist ?

  • And for another thing, she did not ask to be "let out of her contract" with MGM, she was FIRED!

  • @bubbam20- LIE. She was not fired. I love how people hear something and it becomes fact. While it's true MGM was trying to ease her out by giving her lousy films, she still had a contract. She was NOT fired. Show us the documentation supporting you claim, or this is just baseless garbage.

  • You know she was probably thinking about her daughter Christina when she was slapping Osa Massen. Joan Crawford was a self absorbed Hollywood bitch! And that LAME apology about speaking so negatively about the true queen of Hollywood (Elizabeth Taylor) was only because she was quoted in print by that other Bitch of Hollywood Hedda Hopper. If Hedda woudn't have printed what Joan said about Elizabeth, than no appology would have been made. Elizabeth Taylor was loving and gracious to everyone.

  • i saw that movie in high school, there was some bad acting in there! watching this i cant believe she did was she did toher children

  • Love to hear Olivia de Havilland's sister, sad to know that they do not get on well with each other anymore.

  • Crawford was great in Mildred Pierce. But that shadow of her abusing her daughter, makes me weary of saying that she was great.

  • @mandaladouble- don't be weary...and don't accept what you read from her daughter as gospel, when her TWO other daughters said that it wasnt true...

  • These women were very grand and spoke in very fashionable ways. They made such great amazing contributions to screen

  • Old Hollywood had glamour...elegance...CLASS....­todays "celebrities" have none of those things. They are all pure trash having landed their roles via a friend or network, but not talent, spark, charisma or even great looks. Those days of classy stars are long gone.

  • I'd still fuck her brains out, still in great shape here for her age.

  • @KenfromDublin i dont think any of us need to know that

  • "You manufacture toys. You don't manufacture stars."

  • Is this the woman who's daughter talked about how abusive she was towards her adoptive brother?

  • @MrsBooker100 yes it was momy dearest

  • joan showed class ,,, she tried not to didd liz , even though she deserved it ,, liz was a home wreaker ...

  • you go gurl!!!...love you joan!!

  • " If all the young men got their hair cut"...LOL, omg, such an old fashioned way of thinking...I like Joan and all, but she was definitely always "on". She did some great films though.

  • NO WIRE HANGERS EVER!!!!!!!!

  • Rest in Peace Eizabeth Taylor, you will finally be reunited with your one True Soulmate Richard Burton. ;o)

  • No ..... More ... WIRE ...... HANGERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sorry, I can't think of Joan Crawford without thinking about the book and that line.

    On the positive side, and I would consider it positive, she liked sleeping with women. She met Marilyn Monroe at a party once and asked her if they could have "another go", meaning another romp in the hay. Marilyn talked to her psychiatrist about Joan and either the notes or tapes or both were released proving that happened.

  • i loved her as an actress but when i saw the movie mommie dearest,wow she was a cruel mom and i did not like that

  • Joan was so cool! I love Elizabeth Taylor too!

  • What a class act! I discovered Joan's acting talent later in life and am awed by her talent.

  • That was a beautifully acted interview. Joan never stopped "acting" even in real life.

  • She was a self-made woman. She came from nothing to become one of the biggest movie stars ever. She, like Lana Turner, never relied on a man for financial support.

    She was always gracious to her fans because she knew that they put her where she was. And she aged gracefully, without plastic surgery.

  • @onthewall888

    Really? Correct me if I am wrong, after ending her acting career, Crawford married the CEO Pepsi Cola, Alfred Steele. Upon Steele's death, she was given a seat on the board of Pepsi, Co. To say that she made it financially without the help of a man is a misnomer, considering that she was married four times!

  • @fredrika27 At the time she married Alfred Steele, Pepsi was not the company it is now. As spokesperson for Pepsi, Crawford increased the sales of the company, and it could be said that Alfred married her for her star-power. While she had been married three times before, the marriages were not long-lasting nor with men who were wealthy. Joan bought her house in Brentwood with her own money and it remained her home all the time she lived in Los Angeles. She adopted three children and

  • She looks just like Mr. Rogers in drag in this video!!

  • I love her, she may have been a prude, self centered, egotistical woman, but that's what made her strong and fabulous! She's old Hollywood glamour indeed!

  • What a stuck up world famous star!

  • i've become fascinated with these old hollywood stars. they had intelligence and were well spoken.

    today they are trash

  • Smack her Joan!!

  • Whatever happened in Joan's personal life will be questioned forever but when she talked about Hollywood and how a star looks in front of the camera and how they should look and carry themselves when in public shows this woman had style and class and loved her fans and respected her public.

  • @NFitalianGuy Amen. You hit the nail on the head.

  • @NFitalianGuy Joan was not just a moviestar, but a professional.

    

  • Later on in life, Joan stopped listening to her make-up people and managed herself. She looked strange with dark eye brows and no one could tell her how to look younger. Her eyes were all she wanted to accent.

  • She contradicts herself with every other line. Her remarks about Cukor make zero sense. And MGM fired her.

    Total psycho.

  • @iriisblue LOL she is telling a story, she didn't say she would tell the truth, lol. The part about the director saying something to her and she burst into tears, lol yeah Joan, Sure ya did. LOL. She was a very tough lady, I doubt if she cried at all, well only for the camera.

  • @roblou62 Sure she cried, if you include the glycerin tears. But remember, "I'm no Cinderella!" (!)

  • Moral of the story. If you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. Why show your tacky side. Class people. Where is it?

  • She's a class act. One of the greats of Hollywood.

  • NO MORE WIRE HAAANNNGGGEERRRSS!!!!

  • She was a great actress. She should not have commented on other actor's personal life because she herself was not a morale queen.

  • at a quick glance interviewer looks llike hugh laurie

  • GABLE couldn't stand Cukor. mainly because Cukor no doubt was one of Clark.s clients back when Gable was a male prostitute.. no attack... a proven Hollywood fact.

  • she's so beautiful in this interview...just sophisticated beauty.

  • She was so right... Alot of these actors nowadays are all the same. It's rare to find an actor that stands out from the rest. There's no originality anymore and she was right to say that this world is angry.. We live in a world where people lost simplicity and lost gracefulness..the old hollywood actors had class, they stood out and their names will never be forgotten.

  • @lovewhatudo Well said!!!!!  I agree 100 % xxxxxxxx o

  • @lovewhatudo so true!

  • @lovewhatudo their sins and mistakes were hidden by the powerful studios..not like today!!!

  • She screwed Marliyn monroe and had a whole string of lesbian affairs with other actresses.She was something else, and she was right about the way society was heading with the "women with short hair and men with long hair" line.Look at the feminist nightmare were living in today.

  • @jimmy27paul MARILYN refused her proposal.

  • @ilovejayceon Recently released documents from Marilyns physchiatrist and tapes where she says she indeed did have a "one nighter" with Crawford and said Joan had a "monster orgasm" but Marilyn said she didnt enjoy it at all and said it only reafirmed to her that she had only interest in men not the slightest in interest in women.

  • @jimmy27paul Well, sexual behaviour is apparently very flexible according to todays example, therefore, Ms. Crawford was way ahead of her time.

  • @ilovejayceon Crawford was notoriously forward in her advances, her own daugher even said she would get blind drunk and try to get in to bed with the maids in her house.

  • The epitome of insincerity.

  • Joan was the greatest!

  • "'So much money to be made or lost...,' you just said; so much TALENT to be made or lost too."

    Very astute response, Joan! I love you. :0)

  • Joan is so wonderfully sweet and just adorable - great actress too and a real legend.

  • Wonderful interview from a great movie legend...Joan Crawford...Ta...x

  • -That interviewer was ridiculously ugly !

  • Who's the fucking monkey-freak that is doing the interview?????????

  • WOW!! That slap was nothing short of EPIC!! Joan was the ULTIMATE movie star!!!

  • No Wire Hangers !!

  • I love Ms. Crawford and Ms. Taylor!!!

  • She is right: you can't manufacture stars. They either have talent or don't. But the studios were great at tweaking them to make them more glamorous for the public - and at creating good PR about them.

  • @xander7ful That was a very different era she was in. And if that would be her opinion today, which I believe would have changed, she'd be wrong.

  • she's so gracefull- one of the finest

  • "I still think we should go back to romantic pictures. The world is so angry. I'm no Cinderella but, by golly, the world is so angry if we could get romantic pictures back again and no angry young men and have the young men have their hair cut and the young ladies let it grow, I think we'd get back to nice human relationship again throughout the world".

    Joooooooooaaaan Crawford...

    The original STEPFORD WIFE!!

  • @Seyahhsod she was affirming gender differentiation - a very conservative woman

  • @Shanniquitie

    Only the individual should be able to determine for themselves their own gender.

    Imagine someone telling you that you are not he gender you say you are, even though you show them your genitals and then they send you away for "gender correction"

    I know what you mean but it seemed like she was imposing.

    I wish we could return to lades being ladies and progress to men being intelligent myself.

    None of this fighting, racism, sexism, sexual discrimination of orientation.

  • A Woman's Face was brilliant. It's dying to be remade. I'd love to see Angelina Jolie Jolie in Crawford's role.

  • @zamusicza How could you want that ? They are absolute different categories of talent .....

  • @kiribula I just think it would be a story that would be great updated. Instead of a petty thief Angelina could be a terrorist. Up the ante a little. Throw in some special effects.....Just a thought but Joan in A Woman's Face was just BRILLIANT

  • i can never look at her the same way now when i saw mummy dearest. the way she treated her children

  • @AbbyPusey don't believe all you read! lighten up!

  • Her perspective on hair is idiotic.

  • Oh please Joan!! The only reason you apoligized was because you didn't realize that Louella Parson was a blabber mouth and repeated everything you had ever said about other people to them. Marilyn Monroe was another u apoligized about. Not only was she a bitch but a hypcritical one as well.

  • Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle black!!!!!

  • This is so funny. Someone like Mommy Dearest critizing Elizabeth Taylor. LOL!

  • I dont doubt Joan probably was a demanding mother....and no one but daughter was present when her personal life overtook her skill, but there will be no finer actress/star to come along because there will never be a time that great actresses were given the best vehicles. If you see her body of work you will realize that she was not only beautiful, but smart as a whip. Even in this interview notice how she listens and responds without missing a beat.

  • @scisan60 - I agree wholeheartedly. She was a very hard-working professional and deserved every good thing she got. Regarding the problems with two of her children, well that's very unfortunate. The older I get though, the more empathy I have with her being a parent. I don't think she adopted five children with bad intentions. And those children surely did get many advantages as a result.

  • So, I'll cut my hair and peace wil come.

    This learning, what a thing it is. Shakespeare

    Love Joan C. as an actress, but shut up.

  • I love it when people wait until they get old to say " we don't have music like we used to", or "people don't look like they used to," etc. It has been said since the beginning of time. We can only admire the past and move on. Nothing stays the same. That is what makes the present more interesting. There may never be another Joan Crawford I'm sad to say, but at least we had one.

  • she doesn't seem like a bitch to me at all. I' sure she had her issues and perhaps she wasn't as likeable as people like their Hollywood stars to be but she's a lady.

  • No matter what anyone may say about her, she was a very sensitive lady...She has talked about bursting into tears on the sets of her movies and on The Lucy Show even, Lucy wasn't too pleased with Joan for being nervous and goofing up and bawled her out, and Joan left the stage and went to her dressing room and cried her eyes out over it... I love Joan and I always will =) I can def. see a side most people don't care to look for, and that makes me love her even more...

  • @MissGarland18

    after working with Miss Ball, Miss Crawford stated one of her famous quotes - "and they call me a bitch"

    Lucille Ball was a STAR in the 50s and 60s. Her contemporaries were fading and couldn't get a job. Maybe it was a little payback for the way Lucy was treated in the 40s.

    Joan and Lucy rule!

  • @oranger2525, I didn't know Joan had said that...Thanks for that little bit of info =) and yes Joan AND Lucy Rule!

  • mommy dearest....scary lady

  • You can tell..how dramatic she is..about reality and non- I get the picture she would intermix the two realities of non-reality..and when reality would hit her she over dramatiZe...it to the hill. Just my view, watching this interview.

  • CliffmountPictures -- I'd LOOOVE to see the entire interview in one upload :o Or maybe the segments numbered?

  • Expressive.

  • I have always loved her(Ms Crawford) old pictures because when I was a kid growing up in Chicago, Il the local networks played her moives alot during the evenings. She had that face that the camera loved.

  • She is right about modern acting, although in this interview, years ago, acting and movies had not yet deteriorated into the gross state they are in today. I love classic movies. I despiise the modern stuff.

  • what a gross, miserable woman

  • Why?

  • Poised, Intellegent and Quite Beautifully and Gracefully aged!

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  • Does anyone know the year of this program and the interviewer?

  • I believe the year was 1968,

    and Im not sure but if memory serves me well the interviewer is named Philip Jenkins.

    :-)

  • thank you!

  • You don't manufacture stars...

    What an incredibly naive statement. And the conviction with which she said it makes it almost as sad as her solution to world anger.

  • amen she was fabulous!!!!

    love love

    -nita

  • @sceptember You've got to consider the time

    Stars were more talented and naturals

  • @sceptember I t hink she meant the essence that makes one a star can't be manufactured. Clearly Clark Gable or Errol Flynn were born with that special quality. Howvever, they were cast in certain r oles that create a certain image- which was manufactured. There were many actors who were manufactured and their appeal has not transitioned with time-- I think Lana Turner is a good example.

  • She was geat.