Joan Crawford was certainly versatile in her roles. She brought a lot of elegance to the Wild West as a 1800's farm rancher. This was a great short film. I noticed the very young "Robbie" from "My Three Sons" as her son.
What a dopey story! She was way too old for the guy anyway. That's how it was then though, no romance, just - one needs a home, one needs a wife - done deal! It was all about survival. Maybe those marriages lasted much longer than the ones we have now though, all based on love and romance, but the divorce rate is at around 45% now. It been falling in the last ten years, mainly because people aren't getting married as much.
MANY people can't live alone, or don't want to. Whole point of this story was 2 self-sufficient individuals choosing to throw in together & be a family.
I had heard that she refused parts in movies & tv ( as she aged ) that depicted her as an old woman...even though she was....but since she was a celebrity icon...'she was hard to refuse....
Obviously not that she 🌟ed in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, it became such a hit it started the whole hagsploitation trend. Myrna Loy refused those roles & went to the stage, Crawford eventually became a recluse (Loy did a guest role like this in The Virginian).
Crawford only did Pearce after leaving MGM after years there & being labeled box office poison, lots of movie 🌟s moved to television, Lucy had her greatest success leaving movie$, TV let her 🌟 in more films.
A widow with child is vulnerable, I know, it happened for 2 generations in my family. This made sense, they need each other to be a family. Crawford herself eventually became recluse, like Dietrich & Garbo.
