Joan crawford singing!

[GeoStrum3]

She was at her peak and she had Gable!

[costernocht]

She sounds a little like Helen Morgan here.

[Shubael1809]

Joan Crawford in her heyday (in this scene) was the most beautiful creature ever to grace this earth. Look at the perfection of that face. George Hurrell said "she had no bad angles.. Joan adored the camera and it adored her". True enough.

[theblueangel28]

ive always thought her singing was really excellent. every register of her voice was nice, her musicianship was perfect.

had she invested in it she could have been a singer

i mean look at Marlene Dietrich, who is my favorite star

[paulj0557]

I love Joan Crawford. Flawless beauty and flawless soul. However, I am a Stanwyck freak who would like to think of her as a queen of the early talkies because of her open contract status. She was given this independence while most of the other famous actresses were tied to contracts with one studio. I also think that the freedom she had made her ambiguous at award time.

[Shubael1809]

@paulj0557 I like Stanwyck too but I soured on her when I found she betrayed Joan late in life. She certainly like Joan well enough when they had their torrid affair in the 30s and 40s. No one even came close to Crawford's flawless beauty.

[globalman]

Only as a point of fact there was only one official Queen of the Screen by a special vote from a particular orginasation, late '30s. Myrna Loy....... Clark Gable was her King. From that time on Clark referred to Myrna as Queenie. They having made numerous films together and being good friends. BTW....Myrna and Joan were best friends from the silent screen days and when Joan and Myrna were together in the chorus at Graumen's Chinese Theatre in the 20's.

[Mike6E]

I think Bette, Joan, and Lucy were all beautiful in their hey-day - but it didn't always shine through with Bette because she played a diverse amount of roles that required her to alter her appearance. In their later years, I believe that Bette aged the best.

[mysarcasmhurts]

Does anyone know the next line she sings after "I'll still believe in you"?

[Shubael1809]

@mysarcasmhurts "though love go past". I have the sheet music and play it on the piano often.

[marienoreene]

love her!!! she's the queen...

[JohnnyGNV]

Her voice wasn't so bad --- not so good either but I've heard worse. I think she did better than other actors who tried to sing and probably shouldn't have -

[decidedvoter08]

My ears! Blood is shooting from my ears now!

[gigi7007]

Bette, Joan, and Lucille, I loved them all!

[princeandrey]

Ball is not in the same league. She made very little of herself in movies and it required one of the sillier sit-coms to vault her into a mediocre form of camp fame. Crawford was no great shakes either, except for her very early movies where she has some bit of wit and beauty. After that she devolved into semi-grotesque self-caricature. Bette Davis is a true actress; not beautiful but far from homely! She's arguably have been the best actress of the period. See Meryl Streep's tribute.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Is that what you think? I'm sorry, but Joan Crawford was never ugly. And if you can see that Bette Dvis has some beauty in her, I'm surprised you'd think Joan Crawford was unattractive in some later films.

[Rouben19]

Bette and Joan both great actresses and women - had a habit of over using that unattractive MOVIE ACCENT that falls somewhere between faux british and midwestern twang ...

[VTMCompany]

she always says BEAN as in

'i've bean thinking...'

[Shubael1809]

@VTMCompany Yes. The lovely "Fifth Avenue/Boston Brahmin" accent of earlier times .. It's about as close to The Queen's English as we come in the States. That Joan mastered that accent and made it hers is a testament to her talent, intelligence, and perseverence. Joan (Lucille LeSueur/Billy Cassin) will always have my respect and admiration for pulling herself out of that "cowtown" in Texas and taking herself to the pinnacle of Hollywood stardom. She is the American dream.

[Shubael1809]

@Rouben19 It wasn't "faux British". Quality, well-born society people on Beacon Hill in Boston and in New York come by it generationally and it's still used. You need to do your research.

[racingrubberbiker]

These ladies of the silver screen were all as tough as old boots - they had to be, when dealing with people like Mayer and Warner. Dont judge them by the standards of today

[queerfish1]

@racingrubberbiker Hollywood is not the same as it was. Today's "celebrities" don't even compare to the stars of those days. I miss the glamour, the excitement it used to have. I will be sad when all the movie stars are all gone that worked in the studios back then. I don't even know who todays' celebrities are. Ask me there names and I wouldn't know. I know all the stars of the 1920's through1970's though.

[globalman]

@queerfish1 ditto to your words......there was quality and creativity then and now it is rubbish. The clothes, the sets ......the illusion was complete. Today it is like fast food, tasteless and no nutrition.

[Sunstudios54]

WHOA HOOOOOOOOOOO! GO JOAN!!!!

[ConfusedSponge]

oh clark you ruined this for me

[defundthewar]

I don't know if it's true or just a gag, but... the MGM execs were talking about the big success of this film, "Possessed," and threw out the idea of making a sequel. "What'll we call it?" asked one.

"Repossessed!"

[horndiapason]

Singing wasn't her best "event", but the study of singing obviously helped strengthen her speaking voice...which was remarkably colorful and expressive. Meanwhile, Clark Gable, with no 'stash, looks like a high school boy. Thanks for a great clip!

[xABitTooGorgeousx]

1:45!

And wonderful voice! marveloussss Joany!

[GustaveKwak]

supposedly she must have been sad that carole lombard took her place as the love in gable's life, but wide-hearted enough to accept that. it must be harsh and hurtful that she cannot possess the one man she truly loved in her life (she said gable is her one love).

gable followed lombard right toward her grave, buried next to her. crawford was settled with alfred steele whom she was buried next.

[moreno2394]

I didn't know Joan was had a crush on Gable, first time I heard of this.Can you let me know ?

About Carole Lombard I think she was horrible coarse and vulgar woman, Lombard was NOT sexy an femenine at all and she spoke like a man.

I never understood how Clark could be in love with her.Loretta Young was infinitely prettier and infinitely more charming and femenine and glamorous than vulgar Lombard

[GustaveKwak]

the thing with gable and crawford was more than crush but flaming love affair when she was married to douglas fairbanks jr and him to an elder socialite for money. gable wanted to marry joan but hindered by money then since he was only an rising starlet. then crawford shifted to franchot tone while gable was hitting on with lorretta young and jean harlow.

[moreno2394]

Loretta Young became pregnant while fiming "The call of the wild" (1935) with Gable and the birth of their daughter never came out! incredible how the whole world could not realize of it!Only in early '90s the truth came out

[moreno2394]

There is much mystery about Jean Harlow life.I heard to say Jean Harlow drove her car at night by Hollywood streets ans she invited men to fuck and that she didn't remember with whom men she had fucked before, etc.May be it possible ?

[moreno2394]

There is also a legend about Jean Harlow death that conceals a great mystery and the truth never came out because it was very inmoral at that time, 1937.May be it possible ?

[moreno2394]

In the '80s Lucille Ball told to a close friend that in middle '30s there was a whorehouse in Hollywood where all the prostitutes were a copy of a the big stars, Harlow, Crawford, Dietrich, etc

[GustaveKwak]

it was said in lots of resources about gable that he was mostly attracted carole lombard becuz he felt the affinity of her sass and particarly lombard's vulgar humor which amuses him a great deal. he felt affinitive with lombard due to his prole savage upbringing. and gable does have a fetish for blondes even he did have some exceptions like crawford and ava gardener who beauty trascend their hair color. gable claimed that brunette look unflatteringly dark to him. see how he's so fond of lombard

[moreno2394]

Lucy told the real Joan Crawford went to that whorehouse and nobody ever knew that.Men thought she was the copy of Crawford.This is a real very strange story Miss Ball told to a close friend in the '80s

[Shubael1809]

moreno?

It's documented fact that Ball despised Crawford. Lucille Ball made Crawford's life miserable when she guest starred on "Here's Lucy" in the 1960s.

It's my feeling that Lucille Ball was, in truth, not a very nice woman. Her interview with Dick Cavett (here on YouTube) will attest that she was a homophobe.

[Sunstudios54]

i love both ball and crawford but crawford was going through a hard time and lucille was mean to her...but i guess lucy did know any better because she was always strictly professional

[Shubael1809]

Ball wasn't "strictly professional" when she made Viv Vance keep twenty extra pounds on her so Lucy would look thinner.

Both Ball and Crawford were superb narcissists. The problem with anyone compared to Crawford in the 1930s beauty-wise paled in comparison.

Bette was homely and Ball was average.

[Sunstudios54]

I still LOVE both Crawford & Ball but im not a bette davis fan

[Shubael1809]

I dislike Ball but for the camp factor alone Bette Davis in All About Eve wins my heart every time.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Really? What did she do to her? I'm no fan of Lucille Ball, but my mom loved the show "I Love Lucy", I never thought she was mean though.

[moreno2394]

Joan was very appealing and sexy at that time , 1931, she was extrainteresting woman, she had class and great legs!The definition of the BIG movie star starts with these two words: JOAN CRAWFORD

[GustaveKwak]

clark gable rarely just embraces a woman in the movie without previous feuds. and joan crawford never slaps gable as hard as she does in all the other flicks. the slap in "love on the run" is far from a slap.

[MikeHudson65]

Has anyone noticed how she didn't look like Joan until the 1940s onwards AND indeed got better looking with age, in fact I dn't think she ever aged. I mean you know it is Joan in the 20s and 30s but that unmistakeable look wasn't really established until later in her career. I love that look

[xABitTooGorgeousx]

voice like silk!

so niceee!

shes a triple threat she iss

[xABitTooGorgeousx]

"a woman can do anything,go anywhere-so long as she doesnt fall in love"

[norfolk03]

Lovely! Nothing she couldn't do!

[ZephaniahAndrews]

This should convince any sketics that Joan was the epitome of Hollywood glamour and outshone Garbo in natural beauty. This is Crawford at her pinnacle. Her charming rendition of "How Long Will it Last" is sung with honesty since she and Gable were in love at the time.

I agree with "brettsomers" about this film. Her scenes as her makeup table (prior to this) are some of the most beautiful Crawford vignettes on film.

[ZephanlahAndrews]

Ahhh The Queen of Hollywood, (sigh)

I would have loved to been her, But I was born the wrong gender. I sometimes do pretend that I am Ms Crawford at her pinnacle. I own a Full length mirror that has a vignette border. I dress up glamorously and I am on my back taking ot hard from my husband while looking into the mirror.

[Patrick3183]

This movie is effing AWESOME, my personal fave Crawford film. What a shame it's not on DVD.

[hilljayne]

Love how huge her name is in the opening credits! What a star! Love her!

[moreno2394]

Miss Crawford was the Queen of Hollywood, she is the epitome of the movie star, a superstar!

Nowadays everything is dreadful, today actresses are dreadful, they look and behave like men !

[LoveNikki06]

She has to be the most beautiful actress that has ever existed, look at those big beautiful eyes. Love her!!!

[TheProfaneAngel]

Wow, thanks so much for posting this. A very rare film!

[brettsomers]

i'm a big Crawford nut. that singing piano scene is one of the best scenes of her career.  the movie is maybe the best of the young Crawford movies.