I can’t help but love her she is so well versed. She is elegant and her answers relate to everyday life while being a STAR:) I love to hear her speak✝️💜 Fabulous actress💜
I always lean toward Bette Davis, and have seen many more of her interviews. They are different women, but equally captivating in their own way. That era turned out some strong, independent, inspiring women way ahead of their time. Joan is intense and puts a lot of thought into her responses...enjoyed watching this very much!
I agree. There has always been the Davis/Crawford camps and I've always leaned towards Davis but over the years I have become a fan of Crawford as much as Davis. They are now equal in my mind. Both unique. Crawford did want to be respected as an actress by Davis. She never got that but I think deep down Davis was jealous of Crawford and saw her as a competitive threat. A pity really.
In Sudden Fear the late film they mention, Joan has a scene where she catches a sight of herself in the mirror holding gun, planning murder and a half dozen feelings cross her face from surprise, to self-disgust, to bewilderment and more... all communicated with her face.
You should check this video out. Stars defend Christina Crawford: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qr3NLQ2pkrkh.htmlttps://ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qr3NLQ2pkrk.html
@@lindaeasley4336 that's not abuse. Christina was a incorrigible kid. And ungrateful for all she had growing up, then to get people to feel sorry for her and get all that hype to sell a book, after being removed from the will. Thats whats astounding.
She was a hard worker, and knew the movie business in and out. However, she had problems and I still think she is much older than reported at least by 10 years. She had her struggles just like everyone else but overall she was a great actress.
@@WWG1WWGA You could say the same about Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and many others.
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.
First child is often the "trial" for parents It seems joan "took it easy" for later children Joan was a self made woman, she worked hard to accomplish, she never forgot where she came from
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
Very difficult work to be actress, divas , star. JOAN WAS PERFECT IN THE MOVIE AND VERY PROFESSIONAL ...NOT SAMPLE.....FOR JOAN SUCCESS, BUT DIFFICULT LIFE,,,,,VERY BIG MOVIE STAR 🎥🎥🎥🎥🌟🌟🌟🌟✨✨✨✨🌏🌏🌏🌏🥀🌹🌹🌹 💄💄💄💄🌟🌟🌟🏆🏆
@@StephieGsrEvolution She tried too hard to look young -- which dated her. On THE LUCY SHOW she was almost fired because she was so drunk that she passed out on the set.
Asked why she left Metro after seventeen years, she says "two lousy pictures, so I asked for my release." Per the film Mommie Dearest, it was MGM who asked for that.
@@vih6650 You think JC's interview account of her past had the objectivity of a documentary? Just so you know, JC was no objective, circumspect documentarian nor commentator on her own past behavior with various people and entities. Many recounts of her abuses of Christina and Christopher are corroborated by various JC neighbors and guests in her house, and by the headmistress of Christina's school.
Seen Joan in this interview make me believe that the movie Mommie Dearest wasn't based in the real life of Joan Crawford, but the anger and frustration of Christina's childhood memories, over her strong character mother. Never from an abusive woman. There's always three versions of the truth: Mine, yours and the real.
RAY L It’s not uncommon for abusive people to have a polished and likable public persona. Giving a good interview is not indicative of whether or not a person is an abuser.
Thanks for your interest in my comment ChevyDude65. But it wasn't just based on this interview in particular, but from all the information that I have gathered along the years, when in 1981, I saw the movie based on Christina's book. I do believe they were both strong tempered women and in addition Joan had a very strict behavior as a single mother, who was also dealing with her popularity and demanding schedule during her daughter's first years. Christina's hunger for attention collided with her mother's fame and busy itinerary making her mad n' feeling abandoned. What I do believe on Joan's behavior runs around her zero tolerance for ungratefulness that was based on her tough childhood living in poverty. That was the problem between these two women. Unfortunately I don't believe in Christina's version, because it was just based on her side of the story. Would be more credible if she had decided to write her book while Joan was still alive; Like Bette Davis' daughter did. Dead people can be easily blame; just because they can't defend their self. Joan may not be a perfect woman; but neither the monster Christina described in her book. Peace man!
My father was physically abusive to my mother, me and my brother but outside he was the sweetest guy, putting on a mask of the most gentle, idealistic fellow as soon as a non-family member looked at him. A crowd of crying friends came to his funeral and I heard around 200 times what a great, always heartfelt, empathic, likeable, inspiring man he was. I still have scars from him. Abusive Sociopaths can fool the world. How someone speaks in front of a TV camera doesn't say anything about the real person.
@@georgerobbins3198 Agreed plus child abusers always "pick" the ones that didn't agree with them while being nice to others. Hollywood neighbors agree that JC was an unsuitable mom yet did nothing about it. Perhaps she didn't physically abuse her 2 oldest children, but she was rough and tough with them.
I enjoyed watching this interview. She seems very controlled.....like she doesn't dare open her mouth until she knows exactly what she is going to say and how she is going to say it. Not sure if that makes sense........though not a bad thing. Just noticable to me. No doubt her acting abilities stem from how she was raised and what she experienced as a child........I think thats what makes any actor a great actor and not just a ho hum actor. And the guy was right......we will all be watching her films till the end of time.
She would've seen and approved all the questions beforehand, and prepared (somewhat) all her answers. It's clearly rehearsed in her head for the most part.
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.
What an absolutely fascinating interview!! Literate, respectful but probing...just wonderful!! And Miss Crawford...what can you say that hasn’t been said a million times before. The fact that she created this composed, elegant, gracious, funny, clever, caring and hard working woman who is here before us, is a testament to her tenacity and strength of vision. She is a legend for very good reasons!! What an incredible woman she was. She’s been done so wrong since her death, and by people who she gave everything to as well (isn’t that always the way)!! I truly despise that adopted ingrate for the damage that she has done. God bless you Joan. Rest easy...many of us have more than a good idea of who you really were, and are 🥰🌟🧡
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 .
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! 🙂
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.
Say what you want about Miss Crawford, but her poise and elegant speaking manner is now a long lost thing in Hollywood; now we have these obnoxious vulgar bimbos with their political opinions and crass behavior, nothing wrong with someone being that way, but as a star you must always strive to project some level of dignified sophistication in front of the public!
Joan Crawford was an outstanding actress. Terrific personality, however I do believe Christina. Joan had a drinking problem, and mixed with pills is not a good combo. People in front of a camera and behind closed doors can be two different people. Remember Joan is and was one of the best Actress out there. Hate her 2 first children has to endure what they did.
Joan never took pills. At that time there was not so much medicine. If there had been medication at that time, I might have been able to take medication to cure all those mental problems she had. She was a woman and children who needed help and had no one in that difficult life. Joan never took pills. That was Judy or Monroe.
I believe Christina too all Crawford's interviews show her self-centeredness and calculated rehearsed points of views a good social mask which gribs 'friends ' 'in the palm of (her) hand' . Listen to her choice of words! Would be nice to hear from a social linguist, psychiatrist or psychologist on this interview.. Her 'private unmasked person' , I believe was very different. Childabuse was so taboo then and I can relate to Christina's story. Crawford's acting was one thing, I will not take away from her, and the harshness she projected on the screens came from within (she admits this) and this same private dark harshness stayed with her til she left this side.
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
I hate drag shows which feature Joan and the fact that Mommie Dearest is considered historical fact. Joan was a true star and a humanitarian and I don’t believe Christina.
This was interesting. I can't ever figure out why she always has an artificial patina to her personality. There was just something about her that wa so 'off''.
She had to mold herself into something/ someone she really wasn't. Be successful & keep it going . Being an actress wasn't her art. Dancing was. Yet from silent screen to 1970s , she formed and was Joan Crawford.
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.
Abused people will be like that. I know. When someone or something reminds you of something that happened to you in the past, you just revert yo that age and react.
@@bitfatcunt230 Gaga has never mentioned Crawford's name but it is evident that Gaga admires Joan's aesthetic and is highly influenced by Crawford. Madonna also made reports inspired by Joan and made video clips in tributes to Joan. I think that because of Joan's aesthetics and clothes with those shoulder pads, hairstyles, makeup and everything was the Lady Gaga / Madonna / Cher of classic cinema. Pioneer in having an image that represents beauty but without being the most beautiful. Joan Crawford was not the prettiest but never in history will an actress return to the image and face of Joan Crawford, perhaps the closest thing is Angelina Jolie. Wannabe-Marilyn Monroe if there are many in Hollywood.
Andy Taylor Yes. Too many movie stars from back then are on film, on record that she was a scary mother. We can appreciate Joan as a wonderful actress and she was amazing to her fans till the day she died. We did not have to LIVE with her & that evidently was a whole nuther kettle of fish. I believe Christina.
As a survivor of child abuse I believe the other 3 children, not a handful of jealous stars who Joan had pissed off in the past, and one spoiled greedy daughter.
So you should feel a modicum of empathy with Joan. She was a girl abused, raped, abandoned in a boarding school and exploited at work since she was a child. Read about her story and you will see that it was much worse and more terrifying than the one she gave to her children.
I would hate to have you in a jury, if I was on trial for something, were u there to see if Joan was abusing that lying witch Christina , yeah she could had written that book earlier while Joan was still alive, but not getting a inheritance is what pissed her off.she was jealous because her career went no where .ha ha
She was a narcissistic child abuser... You know, that one girl (her adopted daughter) who was not a fan, got to experience her derange mind up close... Read, or watch "Mommie dearest"!!
A bitter woman who on her death bed told her house keeper to stop praying for her! A bitter person and a bitter soul! I’m not one to judge but, if you reject Jesus or prayer you reject life ever lasting! A sad end to a torturous soul
She's a spiritual person. Imagine the judgmental housekeeper thinking she's going to hell because of the book they read! She had her faults, but no worse than most people, even though her adopted daughter had her revenge with a "tell all" book.