New Bio Explores What Fueled Joan Crawford’s ‘Ferocious Ambition’
Was Joan Crawford self-made or industry-made? Biographer Robert Dance explores what fueled the Hollywood star in Ferocious Ambition.
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The Film Adaptation of Joan Didion’s ‘Play It As It Lays’ Still Slays
There’s a danger to Frank Perry’s 1972 film adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel Play It As It Lays, and that’s why we’ve subdued it for so long. Now 50 years later, it’s time to unleash the beast.
Joan Crawford Lets Us Have It in ‘Possessed’
Curtis Bernhardt’s film-noir starring Joan Crawford Possessed is a tantalizing mix of woman’s melodrama and Freudian noir.
TCM Classic Film Festival 2014
Unlike Sundance Channel or IFC, Turner Classic Movies' original manifesto remains as solid as Gibraltar.
Joan Crawford Retains a Fierce Sense of Control in ‘I Live My Life’
Joan Crawford film I Live My Life lands in the lineage of the ’30s films about the screwball comedy derived from marital bickering.