Joan Crawford
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You have to be very strong and very self-protective, and you have to know yourself. Anyone in that position has had to be tough, and tough can be perceived as bitchy. She's definitely like that. When I was working on it, I thought 'I don't want to go all Joan Crawford here.' There are a lot of levels to her
To be playing Joan Crawford is as good as it gets
You can’t be expected to become Joan Crawford or Bette Davis – you only give a representation of that person. But I feel very close to her. I’ve done my research and understand the way the woman thinks.More quotes »
Around the web
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Movie review: 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is more grim than Grimm
the Huntsman” that distinction is pretty much up for grabs. A slumming Charlize Theron certainly does her part, channeling Joan Crawford via Faye Dunaway as the wire-hanger-hating wicked queen; as does the thespian-challenged himbo, Chris Hemsworth, channeling from Victor Post Read more »
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Searching for Old Hollywood, Part 2
settees, lights, and multi-angled mirrors. It was enlightening to stroll through the rooms where Billie Burke, Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, and dozens of others were given the star treatment. The rooms suggested the kind of lavish attention from Movie Morlocks Read more »
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Otis Clark, survivor of 1921 Tulsa race riot, dies at 109
on a freight train headed north. He would eventually move to Los Angeles, where he was the butler in the home of movie star Joan Crawford. He later turned to preaching and was known as the “world’s oldest evangelist.” But for nine decades, he remained a living from Bangor Daily News Read more »
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The Saturday interview: Tracey Emin
selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that. I don't want to be Joan Crawford. "I would really like the idea of someone small and cute to dress up, we all do, but that's not what it's about, is it? I from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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'BitchSlap!' Resurrects Hollywood Divas Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Hedda Hopper With A Vengeance
C. Stephen Foster in 'BitchSlap!' (photo by Chris Hume). Darrin Hagen brings three legendary Hollywood divas -- Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Hedda Hopper -- back from the dead to duke it out on the Macha Theatre stage in BitchSlap! In this coup de camp, from LAist Read more »
