Joan's Stuff
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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
(12/31/24 to present)
LATEST SITE UPDATES [in last month]
[times US Central]
Fri, 10/3, 7pm -- Rain Wed, 10/8, 8:45pm -- Daisy Kenyon Fri, 10/10, 7am -- The Women Mon, 10/13, 1:45pm -- The Karate Killers
UPCOMING and NEW RELEASES/EVENTS: [Let me know if you have something to announce here.]
October 14: Warner Archive Blu-ray release of Joan Crawford Collection with four films: Grand Hotel, The Women, Possessed ('47), and The Damned Don't Cry.
October 31 (7:30pm): The UCLA Library presents Sudden Fear at the Billy Wilder Theater as part of its "A Place of Rage: Women and Anger on Screen" series running from 10/26 thru 12/6. FREE admission!
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)
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.
10/06/25
Possessed -- A film still with Raymond Massey. Daisy Kenyon -- Publicity shots one and two.
LETTERS: 1943: 3-page handwritten to director George Cukor. 1949: To a fan.
FILMS: Sheet music from Ice Follies of 1939.
10/02/25
PHOTOS: 1933: Dancing Lady -- A film still with Winnie Lightner. 1936: Gorgeous Hussy -- A film still with Robert Taylor (includes press caption). 1937: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney -- Candid on the set with William Powell (includes press caption).
ADS: A 1935 Max Factor glass theater slide w' Joan and Jean Harlow.
9/30/25
1928: Our Dancing Daughters -- A film still with Johnny Mack Brown. Dream of Love -- Publicity with guitar. Publicity by Steichen (from a Vanity Fair page). 1931: This Modern Age -- A film still with Neil Hamilton.
TOBACCIANA: Three 1930s color cards (front/back) from Chile.
9/26/25
Winners of the Wilderness -- Publicity with Chief John Big Tree, with Tim McCoy, and solo. Spring Fever -- Publicity with William Haines.
9/22/25
1932: Rain caricature by Joe Grant (this piece now housed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery). c. 1946: Caricature by Christina Malman (this piece now part of the Smithsonian Design Museum Collection). 1989: Lithograph by Boniello.
9/18/25
NEWS: NYC's MoMA has an ongoing show thru June 21, 2026---Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography---that features Joan. From a MoMA-site interview with Ron Magliozzi, museum curator: There are several figures who appear a number of times. Joan Crawford is the one who shows up the most. She’s in six images.... RM: We worked with what we had, essentially. We had a lot of Joan Crawford! In fact, a Crawford image from Photoplay was one of the major inspiration images. We built the show around the Crawford stuff because they’re very elegantly and charmingly edited.
PHOTOS: 1967: In NYC during filming of Rosemary's Baby, with Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski. 1971: Two candids from Joan's book-signing appearance at Marshall Field's in Chicago. (From Dore Freeman's collection.)
LETTERS: 1957: To a longtime fan. 1964: To a longtime fan. 1965: To a South Carolina TV reporter. 1971: 2 pages to friend "Chuck." 1975: Handwritten memo to secretary Vivian Zeiger on Pepsi stationery.
9/14/25
FILMS: Thanks to Tom C. for another entertaining Joan film review, this time for 1943's Above Suspicion. (If you have your own review of any Joan film, please send it in!)
9/10/25
MAGAZINES: 1953 Tatler (UK) column with overview of Joan's career and brief review of Torch Song.
PHOTOS: 1959 -- On the set of The Best of Everything with cameraman William Mellor.
9/08/25
October 31: The UCLA Library presents Sudden Fear as part of its "A Place of Rage: Women and Anger on Screen" series running from 10/26 thru 12/6. FREE admission!
PHOTOS: c. 1954 with Marjorie Moore.
LETTERS: To Marjorie Moore (from the Gennifer Flowers Collection): 1955, 1958, and 1959.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: R -- Added info and photo for Milton Rackmil, the Universal exec whom Joan was either just seeing or about to marry during filming of Female on the Beach.
9/04/25
1940: Susan and God -- Publicity with Rita Quigley. 1941: A Woman's Face -- Publicity with Melvyn Douglas. 1946: Warners publicity shot at home.
FILMS: Susan and God -- A US lobby card, and a UK lobby card (The Gay Mrs. Trexel). A Woman's Face -- A Finnish poster.
ART: A "Seein' Stars" Feg Murray comic strip (May 30, 1943) featuring Joan's lip prints at upper right.
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