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Celebrating 22 years of The Best of Everything: 2004 - 2026

Established March 23, 2004

Joan Crawford BOE on

(12/31/24 to present)

LATEST SITE UPDATES

[in last month]

TCM US SCHEDULE: JANUARY 2026

[times US Central]

Fri. 1/02: Bette & Joan alternating in the morning/afternoon! The Joan films:

6:30am -- No More Ladies

9:45am -- The Damned Don't Cry

1:30pm -- Flamingo Road

5:00pm -- Mildred Pierce

Sat. 1/10, 1am -- Mildred Pierce

Sun. 1/11, 3:15pm -- Sadie McKee

Mon. 1/12:

8:30am -- Today We Live

1:00pm -- No More Ladies

9:00pm -- 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.

1/07/26

PHOTOS:

1933:  Dancing Lady

On the set with director Leonard and Franchot Tone;

a film still with Winnie Lightner;

screen shots one (with Tone) and two (with Fred Astaire).

1/05/26

PHOTOS:

1926:  A film still from Paris (bigger replacement).

1928:  Autographed publicity for Rose-Marie (bigger replacement).

1931:  Publicity for Dance, Fools, Dance.

1932:  Rain -- A film still with Matt Moore; and screen shots one (solo) and two (with Walter Huston).

1/02/26

PHOTOS:

1927:  The Taxi Dancer -- Publicity shots one, two, and three (w' Douglas Gilmore).

1928:  Dream of Love -- Publicity with Nils Asther, one and two.

LETTERS:  Some stats to start the New Year: There are now a total of 1433 letters from Joan on this site, ranging from June 1926 to April 1977. I added 118 new letters in 2025. Enjoy! :)

Happy New Year: 2026!

Merry Christmas to All!

12/24/25

LETTERS:

1971 -- April 21 to Pepsi exec Al Goetz and wife; April 28 to a friend.

COLLECTIBLES:

Jewelry -- A crystal and silver brooch (George Diaz Collection; Roslyn Herman Collectibles).

Contemporary -- 1981 colored Blue Oyster Cult pins promoting their song "Joan Crawford."

12/20/25

ART UPDATE:

The Doyle Auction site has just published a lengthy "follow-up" RE its November sale of the 1932 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., bronze sculpture by Gilbert Riswold to collector Rick Spector (who reunited Doug with the Joan sculpture that he had long owned). The Doyle post honors Joan/Doug, the sculptor Riswold, and the perseverance of collector Spector! Brief excerpt:
...[T]here is something reassuring about knowing that these statues of Douglas and Joan are back together after nearly 100 years, as the artist envisioned. We are eternally grateful to the passionate collector who brought this story to our attention and encourage other collectors to tell us their tales of objects sourced at Doyle that have corrected history or fulfilled their collecting journey.

See this BOE Riswold page for more info/photos.

12/18/25

PHOTOS:  

1971: At Chicago's Ambassador Hotel, promoting My Way of Life; 9 photos on pages one, two, three, and four.

12/16/25

PHOTOS:

1965:  Small candid at the Academy Awards.

1967:  Three color candids on the set of Karate Killers.

LETTERS:  1969 to James Stewart after the death of his stepson in Vietnam.

12/09/25

FILMS:

Flamingo Road -- Long Island program cover.

Torch Song -- UK quad poster.

Johnny Guitar -- 4 pages from a Japanese program.

LETTERS:  1956 to "Larry" (Lawrence J. Quirk?) re article and Esther Costello filming. On Christmas stationery.