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]
[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 Sat, 10/25, 5:45am -- The Unknown Thurs, 10/30, 7am -- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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.
10/28/25
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.
10/22/25
1927: Publicity for The Taxi Dancer. 1928: Our Dancing Daughters -- A film still. Dream of Love -- Publicity shot by Ruth Harriet Louise. Publicity: Shot by Louise; and shot by unknown.
10/20/25
Hollwood (US) -- December 1928. "Justifying Joan": 2-pg article predicting greatness, by her Dream of Love director Fred Niblo. El Cine (Spain) -- March 1935. Cover. Cinemagazine (France) -- May 1935. Cover. National Enquirer (US) -- October 1979. "Joan Crawford Committed Suicide": 1-pg article. (Side-note: The author of this article would go on to ghost-write OJ Simpson's If I Did It in 2006.)
10/18/25
LETTERS: 5 newsy letters to friend/singer Marjorie Moore (from the Gennifer Flowers Collection): 1968: April (2-pg), October, November 1969 (2-pg)
10/16/25
1960: Color publicity with happy face and happy hat! 1966: 3 small candids at London airport. 1968: On the set of TV's Secret Storm; and a candid.
10/14/25
ENCYCLOPEDIA: B (Big Brother): Added a new entry for the long-running CBS TV series, given that the BB Comic "Mommie Tearest" was just recently featured on the show. (Thanks to an anonymous fan of the show, who wrote to express his/her enthusiasm for the series and recent Joan reference.)
MAGAZINES: A 1950 cover for Italy's Cine Illustrato.
1950: The Damned Don't Cry -- On the set: Hair test, and with Cliquot. Color candid with her kids. 1955: Publicity for Female on the Beach. 1959: The Best of Everything -- Color candid on set shot by Eve Arnold; publicity shot by Arnold; and publicity with Brian Aherne (autographed by both of them).
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.
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