Joan Crawford tribute by Ann Blyth

A Joan Crawford tribute narrated by Ann Blyth from the Turner Classic Movies channel. Features clips from Mildred Pierce.

Never mind the blinking clock in the corner in the second half of the video. I couldn't help that.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Joan
• Crawford
• Ann
• Blyth
• Mildred
• Pierce
• TCM

[PureSoapCleans]

Miss Crawford was the most glamorous actress and movie personality ever in show-business, we will never see another one like her. I respect her very much and have read Mommie Dearest and the other book that her adopted daughter wrote and I do not believe all the bad things she said about her mother, instead I read between the lines the jealousy she felt for her talented mother. Tina is an ungrateful and bitter being, Miss Crawford a great and memorable lady. God Bless Her! She is missed.

[discomadame]

I LOVE JOAN CRAWFORD so beautiful, so talented, so fierce

[mycallard]

She was a cow to her kids.There were actor witnesses.This is all false.

[ConfusedSponge]

@mnmcv1 Wow, thanks for the great info ;-)

[mnmcv1]

no problem, ask as many questions as you like! While Joan wore bathing suits in many of her films (the last i can think of being "Autumn Leaves", when she was around 50) bear in mind it was much easier in black & white to light scenes in a way that would conceal such a thing, especially in the early films she did. Joan was also an expert when it came to her lighting- many of her contemporaries have said she often knew as much about movie-making as the director or cinematographer, sometimes more.

[mnmcv1]

@Scotseasy - while it's true her appearance did become progressively more exaggerated over the years, she still quite pretty in Mildred Pierce. The change became more pronounced in the 1950's- from Torch Song on, the mouth, the eyelashes and eyebrows became more severe.

PS- that wasn't an eyebrow pencil- Joan actually grew her eyebrows back (in her book My Way of Life she discusses this- she used a mix of castor oil and yellow vasoline to encourage the growth).

[MrsWLeach]

Thanks for this post!

[ConfusedSponge]

@mnmcv1 .......one of my many intentions is to make me understand better about one of my favorite classic actress ever if not THE FAVORITE and also the most interesting woman I've ever known. No doubt about that. I wished I could meet her before she died. I also wish to meet girls or even just ONE girl who is as interesting or more interesting than her. So far, not yet ;-)

[ConfusedSponge]

@mnmcv1 Hello, again!!!! Joan wore a lot of bathing suits in her movies. How did she hide all of her freckles? She was of French ethnicity. Pretty odd to hear that French people have freckles. Unless, somehow she had Irish or Scottish blood or both blood in her but that's impossible. I hope that you're not offended with my questions. It's not my intentions to question you but.......

[kcirish]

@MsKeeley77 Based on what?