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Joan's last Oscar nomination. It annoys me when I see Bette going on about how Crawford should have supported Davis' nomination for Baby Jane, not sure that would have happened if the tables were turned.

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterJoe (UK)

Sudden Fear (1952), which incidentally is the film Gloria Grahame shoud've been nominated for that year.

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

MOVIE STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterforever1267

Terrific if overblown film. Joan has her own day coming up on this month's Summer Under the Stars on TCM and this is on the schedule. Actually she's the last star featured on August 31st which seems the way Crawford would have wanted it....if you can't be first than be last with featured billing!

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterjoel6

Joan Crawford is one of my favourite actresses from the golden age. No, she didn't have the versatility of a Barbara Stanwyck or the depth of emotion of a Vivien Leigh but she could command the screen like no other. I always found her so fascinating to watch and she appeared in so many entertaining noirs and melodramas.

My personal top ten favourite Joan Crawford performances:
Possessed (1947)
Humoresque (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A Woman's Face (1941)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Strait-Jacket (1964)
The Women (1939)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterBrad

Joe, you're probably right. But Joan took it too far with that shitty stunt at the Oscars. That forever tainted her image and many in Hollywood never got over it. That's why she never got another great role after that.

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterbrookesboy

The face of a movie star

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterJaragon

If supporting categories existed back then, would Joan win for Grand Hotel?

August 20, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterTom G.

@Tom G.

She'd probably break the neck of anyone who dared to put her in supporting. Even in competition with Garbo.

August 21, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterKokolo

Tom & Kokolo -- i sometimes wish I'd lived in the times when stars wouldn't dream of being considered "supporting"... where is that fire and ego and self-mythologizing today? It's been replaced by trophy greed.

August 21, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Joan in SUDDEN FEAR vs. Bette in THE STAR - their lone Oscar showdown, and neither had a prayer vs. Shirley Booth!

August 21, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterAndrew Carden

One of Joan's favorite acting postures!

August 21, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterrick gould
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