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Welcome to
The Best of Everything
which debuted online March 23, 2004

 

To find information:

 Browse one of the main categories to the right of the picture above.

 Click on a letter or the index link below to find a particular entry in the Encyclopedia.

•  See the Latest Site Updates and Joan Crawford Events sections below.

 

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All original Encyclopedia text, from A to Z, is copyright © 2004 - 2012 by Stephanie Jones

 

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LATEST SITE UPDATES

[in last month]

 

5/15/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 10 new photos.

 

1933:  Nice big publicity for Today We Live shot by Hurrell. (Thanks to Shane.)

1935:  Film stills from I Live My Life one and two.

1937:  Candid swimming at home, and publicity for The Bride Wore Red with Robert Young and Franchot Tone.

1938:

Film still from Mannequin with Spencer Tracy and Mary Philips (Bogart's wife).

At an NBC radio program with Margaret Sullavan; and at the Waldorf with NY newspaperwomen.

1939:

With Hedda Hopper on the set of The Women.

With lover/writer Charles Martin at Cafe LaMaze. (This one's pretty marked up/watermarked, but was too cute to pass up posting. Any Photoshop experts out there who might want to fix this one up for the site?)

 

 


 

5/13/12

 

ADS:  A Turner Classic Movies magazine ad promoting Joan Week ("Look at her. What do you see?").

 

FILMS:  A Chicago Tribune newspaper ad for Rain ("I'm on my way to hell!").

 

PHOTOS:  Added 6 new photos.

 

1930:

Film still from the unreleased Great Day! with Eddie Nugent.

With British actress Kay Hammond.

1931:

MGM publicity.

With husband Doug Fairbanks, Jr.

1932:

Film still from Grand Hotel, with Wallace Beery.

Candid with Noel Coward, Mary Clare, and Doug Jr. backstage at "Cavalcade."

 

IN OTHER NEWS: I love the creative kids behind this prom held days ago in Cannon Falls, Minnesota! :)

 

 


 

5/12/12

 

FANS: Thanks to John B. from Boston for his pictures taken during the TCM Film Festival in April, and also for his April shot of Joan's Brentwood home.

 

PHOTOS:  Added 2 new photos.

 

1928:  A film still from Four Walls with John Gilbert.

1929:  MGM deco publicity.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

5/11/12

 

FANS:  New Fan Photos! First, there's Kevin Rollins at Joan's hand/footprints in Los Angeles. And then more good stuff from Chris Wilmore... Remember the story in the Carl Johnes bio about Joan autographing her copy of Four Fabulous Faces for him (and his discovery later that she'd cut out an unflattering photo of herself)? Chris now owns that VERY copy of the book (shown here)!

 

PHOTOS: Added 5 new photos.

 

1926:

A film still from Paris with Douglas Gilmore. (Thanks to Shane.)

MGM publicity: In swimsuit and playing ping-pong in WAMPAS dress.

1927:

Film still from The Understanding Heart with Rockliffe Fellowes.

MGM publicity with kitten.

 

 

 

 


 

May 10

35 years later...

 

We remember.

 


 

5/09/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 6 new photos and 3 replacement photos.

 

1961:  On tour for Pepsi.

1962:  New Baby Jane, one and two.  Bigger, better replacement Baby Jane, one and two.

1968:  An expanded Berserk film still for a picture already up.

1970:  Making meatloaf for a newspaper food editors convention.

1974:  At her final public appearance at the Rainbow Room: solo, and with Henry Fonda. (Thanks to Bryan for both.)

 

 

 

 


 

5/05/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 4 new photos.

 

1952:  Candid with Michael Sean O'Shea (American Theatre Wing exec, and recipient of $5,000 in Joan's will).

1954:  Film still from Johnny Guitar, with Scott Brady and Sterling Hayden.

1957:  Film still from Esther Costello, with Heather Sears.

1961:  On the set of...? (Ziegfeld? Miss America?)

 

 

 

 

 


 

5/04/12

 

FILMS: An Argentinian poster for This Woman Is Dangerous.

 

PHOTOS:  Added 3 new photos and 2 replacement photos.

 

1946:  Listening to pianist Jose Hurbi on the set of Humoresque; and dancing with Van Johnson.

1949:  A much bigger, better replacement for a famous Yousuf Karsh publicity shot.

1950:  Harriet Craig publicity by Robert Coburn.

1952:  A bigger, better replacement film still from This Woman Is Dangerous.

 

 

 

 


 

5/03/12

 

CIG CARD: A horrible-looking British American Tobacco (BAT) card from 1935 (3rd row down).

 

PHOTOS:  Added 4 new photos and 1 replacement photo.

 

1932:  With husband Doug, Jr., in Europe.

1935:  A bigger replacement photo from Ginger Rogers's skate party.

1936:  Candid playing ping-pong, and publicity from Love on the Run.

1938:  Shining Hour publicity with Tony DeMarco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

4/28/12

 

FILMS:  

1931 handbill ads for Paid (5th row down) and This Modern Age (3rd row).

1951 Italian reissue poster for Grand Hotel.

 

PHOTOS:  Added 4 new photos and 1 replacement photo.

 

1925:  MGM beach publicity in Santa Monica, with Dorothy Sebastian.

1930:  Film still from Paid.

1931:  Film still from Possessed, with Clark Gable and Wallace Ford.  And a bigger, better replacement shot of Joan and Doug at home.

1932:  With Nina Del Mar on the set of Grand Hotel.

 

 

 


 

4/26/12

 

FILMS:  Added a bigger, better set of lobby cards to the Sudden Fear page.

 

PHOTOS:  Added 6 new photos.

 

1963:

Jujitsu on the set of The Caretakers.

Backstage at the Academy Awards.

With daughter Cindy, receiving an award in Philly.

1965:  On the set of I Saw What You Did with John Ireland.

1966:  Receiving an honorary degree from Vernon Court Jr. College in Rhode Island.

1969:  Arriving in Boston to address a food convention.

 

 

 

 


 

4/25/12

 

FILMS:

An Italian movie poster for Female on the Beach (3rd row down).

A signed "Joan Crawford Enterprises" check ($13,500) for the rights to Queen Bee.

 

LETTERS - 1953:  To a friend, expressing happiness that Christopher's accompanying her on location for Johnny Guitar.

 

PHOTOS:  Added 4 new photos.

 

1956:  On the liner Italia with husband Al Steele.

1958:  With Al Steele at NY's International Airport.

1959:  On the set of The Best of Everything.

1960:  At Margaret Sullavan's funeral with Mel Dinelli.

 

 

 


 

4/24/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 7 new photos and 1 replacement photo.

 

1953:

Color from the premiere of Torch Song. (A bigger, better version of the main Menu Page photo above.)

Candids:  With Paul Gregory, at Ciro's with Cesar Romero, and at Mocambo with Jennings Lang. Also added a bigger, better replacement with Mercedes McCambridge.

1954:

Candid with director Charles Walters.

1955:

Joan-in-jeans publicity for Columbia, and a candid with Mike Silverman -- one last date before her Al Steele elopement.

 

 

 


 

4/23/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 11 new photos.

 

1950:

On the Damned Don't Cry set with co-star David Brian.

Publicity for Harriet Craig.

Family photos:  with The Twins, reading to the kids at home, and directing Christina's Brownie troop.

1951:

Candids with Christina and The Twins and with writer Mel Dinelli.

1952:

Sudden Fear publicity.

On the set of This Woman Is Dangerous with Christina.

Candids with director Nicholas Ray, one and two.

 

 

 


 

4/22/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 6 new photos and 1 replacement photo.

 

1938:  Driving her Lincoln Model K.

1939:  Still dancing with ex-husband Franchot Tone, this time at the Cocoanut Grove.

1941:  On the set of When Ladies Meet with Clark Gable ... and a big gun.

1946:

Another at home with her new Oscar.

Matching mother-daughter Easter bonnets.

A bigger, better replacement photo with Greg Bautzer at the Stork Club.

1949:  At a Flamingo Road party, with Cesar Romero.

 

 

 


 

4/13/12

 

PHOTOS:  Added 7 new photos and 1 replacement photo.

 

1936:  Film still from The Gorgeous Hussy with Robert Taylor.

1937:

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney: Publicity with Robert Montgomery and William Powell.

The Bride Wore Red: Film still with Franchot Tone.  And a replacement publicity shot, colorized at the time of the photo release.

MISC candids:  With Franchot Tone, one and two.  And with Norma Shearer and David Niven.

1938:  Publicity from The Shining Hour with Robert Young.

 

 

 

JOAN CRAWFORD EVENTS

 

If your city, group, or self is presenting a Joan Crawford-related event in the
coming weeks or months, please
e-mail me so I can post the info below.

 


 


 

 

LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES

 Let me know if you have updates to add here.

 

6/4/12. Female on the Beach to be released on DVD as part of Universal's "Women in Danger: 1950s Thrillers" 4-disc collection.  Order.

2/21/12. Untamed released on DVD by the Warner Archive Collection.

 

SPECIAL PHOTOS

 

March 2006: Ferncliff Mausoleum and Flower Photos

July 2006: Ann Blyth at the Castro

May 2007: Ferncliff Mausoleum and Flower Photos

March 2008: Ferncliff Mausoleum and Flower Photos

March / May 2009: Ferncliff Flower Photos

 

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