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National Film Registry. As of 2023, the following five Joan films have been selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant": 1996: Mildred Pierce 2007: Grand Hotel and The Women 2008: Johnny Guitar 2021: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Complete National Film Registry Listing.
Newquist, Roy. Interviewer of Joan for Conversations with Joan Crawford (1980, Citadel Press). Between 1962 and 1977, they spoke by phone 33 times and met 21 times. The book grew out of what was a proposed series of articles for McCall's magazine that she was to have edited before publication. (One article appeared there in August '77 after her death.)
Norconian Club. Joan, husband Doug Fairbanks Jr., and Leslie Howard and wife vacationed here together in July 1930. Located near the town of Norco (north of Corona, California, and just east of Riverside), this 700-acre luxury resort was built by Rex Clark in 1928 and in its early days was a frequent vacation spot for Hollywood stars. The resort included a casino, golf course, 55-acre lake, spa, and 5-story hotel. Clark sold the resort to the Navy in 1941. (Thanks to Dario for info on the club and the link!)
In the book Beyond Paradise (by Andre Soares, St. Martin's Press), Novarro lover and columnist Herbert Howe is quoted as saying that Novarro found Joan "very endearing, sincere, and bouyant" and that when Novarro's career was at a low point and he had been charged a number of times for driving while intoxicated, Novarro blurted out to the press that he wished he were dead; Joan subsequently wrote to him and asked him to call her if he needed someone to talk to. Novarro was murdered in 1968 by two young male prostitute brothers that he'd contacted through an escort agency. The brothers were released from prison, thanks to California's liberal criminal laws, in the mid-'70s.
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