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. Upcoming Eyman appearances: 11/30: Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL) 12/06: Barnes & Noble (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
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.
11/25/25
NEWS: The Criterion.com Books section has this blurb RE the new Eyman bio and Richard Brody's current article about it in the New Yorker: Scott Eyman’s Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face is “a trove of anecdotes, quotes, and insights,” writes the New Yorker’s Richard Brody, “but, above all, it’s the energetic pursuit of an idea: Eyman presents the story of Crawford’s rise to fame as the story of Hollywood stardom itself.” Writing about his “favorite classic-Hollywood actress,” Brody observes that Crawford “took all that was unsayable in Hollywood—all that was unspeakable, all that was ineffable, and all that was unrepresentable in what she’d learned of life, as a child, a clawing outsider, and a star—and brought it all out, one burning fury at a time, in a form of performance that was a music of images. For decades, every time her eyes flashed onscreen, they brought live heat fiercer than the projector bulb that would burn film on contact.”Editor's plea: I stopped subscribing to the New Yorker in 2016, so I don't have access to the above Brody article. Can any kind-hearted reader send me a transcript of it so I can post it on this site? Much obliged in advance! :)
11/21/25
11/17/25
ART: Congratulations to collector Rick Spector, who just recently acquired the Doug Fairbanks, Jr., sculpture that accompanies the Joan piece by the same noted sculptor, Gilbert Riswold. See the Riswold page for new info, along with new photos, including how the two works are now displayed.
PHOTOS: 1925 --- Updated the 11/13 Slave of Fashion photo page. Thanks to Tom C. for discovering a page from Exhibitors Trade Review featuring Joan in a similar pose (though the magazine INcorrectly identifies her as being Norma Shearer!).
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.
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