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I don’t think many 21 year olds today are this insightful and intelligent. I’m not even sure that the type of education her personality type was exposed to, that resulted in this articulate and educated young female, even exists today. The schools and universities are now places where human beings are deliberately dumbed down or indoctrinated
I feel like there's a mask that she never drops but there's maybe not much behind it - her whole identity was built on being "a star" which is a very shallow self-obsessed way to live I'm more interested in people like Katherine Hepburn who had other things going on in her life besides her image and her fame
I agree with you 100% Joan never revealed the real person behind the mask. Too painful. A scared insecure little girl who had a temper like a rattlesnake. I’ve read a lot about THAT Joan. The mommy dearest Christina and Christopher by some miracle made it out alive. This interview was a show, a facade. Joan was a phony. But, I love Joan Crawford the movie star.
Fav point in interview: [JC getting increasingly impatient listening to the interviewer's effusive buildup to his question about Elizbeth Taylor, and, then, pause, and canned reply]: "This girl [ET], I think, has developed into one of the finest actresses on the screen that I've ever seen - [cutting her eyes at the interviewer] - and of course she's had a good tutor [pause] Mr. Burton - [pause, side glance again at interviewer-with just the slightest hint of a sneer halfheartedly disguised as a "pleasant smile"] and they've helped each other tremendously." - imo, vintage JC - complex, defensive, heavily veneered underlying layer of inexplicable seething, mildly vicious. I get tense watching every one of the great interviews that folks have uploaded to YT - JC seems to always be in combat mode - she appears to receive every point in a conversation as a offensive "trick question" and she is ironclad determined not to be "bested" by anybody - would never want to have had coffee with her, it would just be pointless. Only two people she seems to authentically enjoy recalling - and does in practically every extended interview I've seen - are Greta Garbo and Clark Gable - GG apparently b/c JC was just head-over-heels smitten with her b/c of some fleeting moment of attention GG gave her during the filming of "Grand Hotel" and Gable, perhaps because of her relentlessly predatory instinct towards men and fondly treasured after-regard for one of her prey - when I hear her effuse about CG I always detect a resonance of animosity towards Carole Lombard, i.e., sort of a "why her and not me and, hah, you lost her anyway," sort of predator's taunt. lol A complex, vulnerable, painfully insecure, ruthlessly ambitious, hard-boiled woman - and rather unabashedly vulgar and course, altho she valiantly represses that in interviews like this one with the strange "hauteur" accent, the regal hair and makeup and couture costuming meant to impress - but nonetheless, indisputably, a "silver screen" legend of epic proportions - so, Ms. Joan Crawford, relax! You've won! 🙂
Took me ages to find it after seeing Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills music video. Wikipedia told me what the film was but I searched ages for this with the date 1923 but only found it after removing 1923. Gosh this was made 100 years ago - wow a whole century. 😮
Just a very lovely girl and so delicate....Marianne has a gift in that I'm falling in love with her....yet i've never met her....If i were to meet her i'm sure I would explode all the way to Nirvana.....how wonderful...
i wonder where the interviewer is now, being this was 57 years ago. he was great! he asked questions we'd all ask, like what was it like to slap ann blythe.
Hahaha this was so funny to watch and I bet the cast had a load of fun making this short! I had to watch this after seeing Iron Maiden's "Run To The Hills" video, bet Iron Maiden made this probably forgotten classic popular again!
I like this actress .when I started watching movies from my grand parents era I was into Swanson then I saw a movie of Crawford and I liked her. I know Davis was popular but I didn’t really get into her movies but Crawford i actually remember buying her DVDs she really is a very good actress
Aww marianne i just want to hugh her here he was still having that naiveness around him i see another interview about the same year and was over acting to pissed off maybe she doesn't now what he really wants here but the way he express herself seems quite unsure about dont fit in i think many of his generation or even friends of her were having the same feeling but we dont have to follow the sheaps to fit in i have the same feelings she was having here but we have to be our individuals and have tour own minds
No matter if it was Grand Hotel, The Women, Humoresque, Mildred, Queen Bee, Straight Jacket or Trog she brought it 100%. Bette hated her because she was jealous & she always called her a ‘phony’. Joan always acknowledged where she came from, that her childhood was horrific, & she was laser focused on bettering herself. She wasn’t ‘fake’ she worked her ass off to be the person she projected on screen and she took her movie star status seriously for her fans. There was nothing fake about her. She was a clean freak & didn’t hide it not did she have others do it for her. She worked hard herself. When she hosted guests, she cooked the dinner she served. Bette was great….at being Bette. Baby Jane wasn’t acting, she was herself. And she got laughs for putting down colleagues. Also, Joan’s career THRIVED from Mildred Pierce thru the 50’s. Harriet Craig was wonderful. Sudden Fear and Autumn Leaves were 2 of her best films. And Queen Bee & Flamingo Road were pure camp but are entertaining as hell. Bette only had All About Eve.
I'm not rich that was a modest lie lol she had 2 million in the bank when she died so if that's not rich then I don't know what is I'm glad to see this though cause it's not many Joan interviews around
Maybe Rudy was looking for someone to look after him almost like his Mother did. He seemed a little lost at times. He had discipline in some areas of his life Keeping Fit, working hard at his acting fixing cars, etc. But he seemed to need Natacha to organise him. But she was too controlling and hard. He devoted so much time and energy trying to please her. That he lost some of himself in doing so Being a "henpecked" husband is not somethng to be happy about. Once he stood up to her and took more control over his life and career she couldn't live with him anymore. If she had loved him as much as ve loved her. Having a least one child with him would have made him happier. But, there was no compromise on her part. Shame he passed so soon after divorcing her. He may have been fortunate enough to find someone more suitable. He could have anyone, but, perhaps he wasn't that comfortable or confident as he appeared. We all have our weaknesses.... Shame poor man.
that was my Aunt Veldas son my 3 rd cousin on camera and they said she was so angry but she had a cigarettes' and calmed and then became really angry then kicked a printing machine . Aunt Velda said she requested that room be freezing and would stop the film and add lipsticks .She called Dwight Marcell and he refused to sponsor this interview but Quaker Oats sponsored it .
If Joan thought the world and young men were angry in the 60s, she wouldn't believe what is happening now. And today's young men do have their hair cut - in military fashion.
