Tag: Joan Crawford
Set During The Great Depression, Mannequin Assures Its Audience They Can Live on Love
With a script written by playwright Lawrence Hazard, the repartee of Frank Borzage’s 1937 film, Mannequin (pre-dating the one Andrew McCarthy would star in fifty [Read More…]
On Death Becomes Her Riffing Off What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
At the core of every long-standing and staunchly embittered female rivalry (at least in the twentieth century, though obviously it’s still happening now) is, of [Read More…]
The Star: Like Sunset Boulevard Had Norma Desmond Been Castrated By Financial Ruin
Like the cinematic, L.A.-oriented songs of Lana Del Rey alluding to portents of some cataclysmic fall (“Nobody warns you before the fall”), all of 1952’s [Read More…]
Joan Crawford Speaks the Language of All Women in “More, Or Less” Episode of Feud
On The Jack Paar Show in 1962, Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) is riding high on the success of her critical acclaim for playing the eponymous [Read More…]
At the Crux of Feud Is the Necessary Collaboration of Bette Davis & Joan Crawford to Take Down the Filmic Patriarchy
Feud‘s debut has not only sparked delight over another American Horror-esque format for creator Ryan Murphy (the series will next focus on the contentious relationship [Read More…]
The Sibling Neuroses of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
“You mean, all this time, we could’ve been friends?” As Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? draws to a close on the beach of [Read More…]
The Elegance and Poise of Faye Dunaway
She may have once played one of the most train wreck roles in movie history as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, but Faye Dunaway has [Read More…]
