Joan's Stuff
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All original Encyclopedia text, from A to Z, is copyright © 2004 - 2025 by Stephanie Jones
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Celebrating 21 years of The Best of Everything: 2004 - 2025 Established March 23, 2004
(12/31/24 to present)
LATEST SITE UPDATES [in last month]
TCM US SCHEDULE: NOVEMBER 2025 [times US Central]
Sat, 11/01, 11am -- Torch Song Sun, 11/23: 7pm -- Queen Bee 9pm -- Autumn Leaves Tues, 11/25, 7:45am -- Grand Hotel Wed, 11/26: 10:45am -- The Women 5pm -- A Woman's Face Fri, 11/28: 7:30am -- Torch Song 12 noon -- Mildred Pierce Sat, 11/29, 7am -- It's a Great Feeling
UPCOMING and NEW RELEASES/EVENTS: [Let me know if you have something to announce here.]
November 18: New bio by Scott Eyman: Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face.
November 23 (3:20pm): NYC's Film Forum presents Dancing Lady. (Introduced by biographer Scott Eyman, w' book-signing after)
November 29: The Rex Cinema in Wareham, Dorset, presents Our Dancing Daughters.
December 17 (7:30pm): London's Cinema Museum presents This Woman Is Dangerous.
A new Joan Crawford fragrance is scheduled for release on her birthday, March 23, 2026.
Ongoing thru June 21, 2026: MoMA's Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography. Interview with curator Ron Magliozzi, mentioning Joan as inspiration.
11/13/25
1925: Joan as an extra in A Slave of Fashion. 1927: Publicity by Ruth Harriet Louise. 1928: Publicity for Dream of Love. 1929: Publicity in ermine by Louise.
MAGAZINES: To a 1926 photo page, added a page from a 1926 National Police Gazette (NYC) paper with same photo. Three new covers (1930 and 1931) for UK's Picture Show.
11/07/25
Added an entry/cover for David Meuel's Joan Crawford in Film Noir: The Actress as Auteur (2024, McFarland). See also this interesting interview with the author on YouTube (Robert Bellissimo At the Movies).
LETTERS: 1966: To a fan re why Joan is called "Sarah" in Chicago. 1968: Thanks to a fan for the cocktail napkins.
11/05/25
1944: Candid publicity at home (autographed). 1958: Candids on the set of GE Theater's "Strange Witness": one and two. 1959: The Best of Everything -- Publicity shots, one and two.
CHRONOLOGY: A 1962 invite from the Akron, Ohio, Pepsi chief for a cocktail/dinner party honoring Joan.
10/30/25
FILMS: An MGM post-office envelope stamping promoting Mannequin.
10/28/25
1933: Dancing Lady -- 5 filming candids. With director Robert Z. Leonard and Franchot Tone: one and two. With Tone; with Leonard; and solo. 1933 candid: With Clark Gable, his wife Ria, Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, and Franchot.
1934: Sadie McKee -- A film still with Jean Dixon.
10/24/25
1929: The Duke Steps Out -- Publicity on the set, reading a copy of Film Weekly with herself on the cover! On Catalina Beach, shot by Nickolas Muray: one and two. 1931: A film still from Possessed with Clark Gable. 1933: Swimsuit publicity at home, shot by Clarence Sinclair Bull.
10/22/25
1927: Publicity for The Taxi Dancer. 1928: Our Dancing Daughters -- A film still. Dream of Love -- Publicity shot by Ruth Harriet Louise. Publicity: Shot by Louise; and shot by unknown.
10/20/25
Hollwood (US) -- December 1928. "Justifying Joan": 2-pg article predicting greatness, by her Dream of Love director Fred Niblo. El Cine (Spain) -- March 1935. Cover. Cinemagazine (France) -- May 1935. Cover. National Enquirer (US) -- October 1979. "Joan Crawford Committed Suicide": 1-pg article. (Side-note: The author of this article would go on to ghost-write OJ Simpson's If I Did It in 2006.)
10/18/25
LETTERS: 5 newsy letters to friend/singer Marjorie Moore (from the Gennifer Flowers Collection): 1968: April (2-pg), October, November 1969 (2-pg)
10/16/25
1960: Color publicity with happy face and happy hat! 1966: 3 small candids at London airport. 1968: On the set of TV's Secret Storm; and a candid.
10/14/25
ENCYCLOPEDIA: B (Big Brother): Added a new entry for the long-running CBS TV series, given that the BB Comic "Mommie Tearest" was just recently featured on the show. (Thanks to an anonymous fan of the show, who wrote to express his/her enthusiasm for the series and recent Joan reference.)
MAGAZINES: A 1950 cover for Italy's Cine Illustrato.
1950: The Damned Don't Cry -- On the set: Hair test, and with Cliquot. Color candid with her kids. 1955: Publicity for Female on the Beach. 1959: The Best of Everything -- Color candid on set shot by Eve Arnold; publicity shot by Arnold; and publicity with Brian Aherne (autographed by both of them).
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