Joan Crawford: The Best of Everything

July 9: Letty Lynton -- Toronto: Revue Cinema's Designing the Movies series presents the Warners 4K restoration of Letty (which made its debut on May 1 at the TCM Film Fest).

5/13/26

COLLECTIBLES: LA Times ad for a 1953 auction of Joan's Brentwood household items. ("Redecoration in the decor of another period necessitates the sale of many items which were personally selected by Miss Crawford...") This is the only public auction I know of that was supervised by Joan herself.

FILMS:

UK trade ads from Kinematograph Weekly: Two for Possessed ('47), and one for Flamingo Road.

US sheet music for Flamingo Road.

US window card for Torch Song.

PHOTOS:

1953: Film still from Torch Song with Michael Wilding. (Bigger pic and new press caption.)

May 10, 1977

We remember.

5/04/26

ENCYCLOPEDIA: I --- Added a new biographical entry for costume designer Irene, including link to big photo montage of Irene's designs for Joan in 1943's Above Suspicion.

PHOTOS: 1943 -- Above Suspicion

Film stills: one, two, and three.

Screen shot with Fred MacMurray.

Publicity with Conrad Veidt, MacMurray, and Basil Rathbone (bigger replacement).

4/30/26

FILMS: Thanks to long-time reviewer Tom C. for his new review of 1944's Hollywood Canteen! (If you have your own review of any Joan film, please send it in!)

COLLECTIBLES:

Gifts To/From Joan: 1937 Omega pocket watch engraved from Joan to Spencer Tracy (Bonhams 2025 auction, with description).

Personal Attire: 1940s pumps auctioned by Bonhams-NY (2018, Robert Osborne collection, with description).

4/28/26

PHOTOS:

1933: Publicity for Today We Live shot by Clarence Sinclair Bull: one and two.

MAGAZINES/PAPERS: 1933 front-page news from Macon, Georgia's Telegraph and News: The Cubans are rebelling, the US economy is failing... and Joan and Doug are divorcing! The big news in America in April 1933!

FILMS: The Bride Wore Red --- 6 new US lobby cards.

EDITORIAL NOTE re the TCM WEBSITE:

I've been systematically deleting the TCM info link from every Joan film page as I work on that page.

Why? The TCM website used to have a unique info page, with further links, for every Joan movie, but in recent months, they've done away with most of these individual pages.

(They've also now started asking you to click Agree for "the collection and use of your information by cookies and similar technologies" if you want to browse on their site.)

About to become a pay streaming app/channel for Warner Discovery? What does that have to do with dumbing down your home website?

4/26/26

PHOTOS:

1930: Montana Moon -- A film still with Johnny Mack Brown (includes press caption).

1931: Dance, Fools, Dance -- A film still with William Bakewell.

1932: Letty Lynton -- New film still (with Robert Montgomery); bigger replacement still (with Nils Asther); and bigger replacement publicity shot by Hurrell.

FILMS: Letty Lynton -- An MGM publicity photo montage featuring Adrian, his sketch for the black/white Letty dress, and Joan in dress.

ENCYCLOPEDIA: R --- Updated the Recipes entry, with two 1931 Joan-recipes for salads from the book Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills.

4/22/26

BOOKS/JOAN MOVIES: New photos for the novelization of 1928's Dream of Love, including intro to book by MGM publicist Howard Dietz.

MAGAZINES: A 1929 cover from Brazil's A Scena Muda.

PHOTOS: 1927: A film still from Twelve Miles Out with John Gilbert.

4/20/26

ENCYCLOPEDIA: M -- Updated the Memorial Services entry, and updated the accompanying page to include photos of the Beverly Hills program.

LETTERS: 1973 to designer Nolan Miller. (Handwritten, Pepsi stationery; includes color costume sketch.)

4/16/26

CELEB LETTERS TO JOAN:

1967 handwritten card (pp. 1 and 4 of 4) from first husband Doug Fairbanks, Jr., re the recent death of his mother.

PHOTOS:

1956: With Laurence Olivier at the Berlin International Film Festival.

1962: At a signing event for her autobiography Portrait of Joan.

1967: At the NYC premiere of The Taming of the Shrew.

FILMS: Queen Bee -- A UK trade ad.

4/14/26

LETTERS:

1952:

Two to a fan RE where to sell the fan's original song (May and August).

Thanks to a journalist from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Christmas letter to long-time fan (signed by all four of Joan's kids).

1953: To B-movie producer Bill Thomas (of Pine-Thomas Productions) RE Torch Song.

1954: To a long-time fan RE the bad weather and various films.

4/12/26

FILMS:

A Woman's Face -- A 1954 US re-release poster and US re-release playbill.

Reunion in France -- 5 US lobby cards.

Mildred Pierce -- 3 French movie posters; 2 UK trade ads; and a 1972 newspaper ad for a TV showing in NYC.

Humoresque -- 2 UK trade ads; and an Italian Fotobusta lobby card.

The Best of Everything