Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawfordwas an American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stage chorine. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth23 March 1905
CountryUnited States of America
forever age ships
Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.
emotional forever criticism
I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.
course next woman
I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
women
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
became enjoy next saw time turned
Next time I saw Crawford, she wanted another round. I told her straight-out I didn't much enjoy doing it with a woman. After I turned her down, she became spiteful.
baby happened hollywood scarf whatever
During Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu.
taken
A lot of them are being taken to Texas,
unless
I never go out unless I look like
fairness sometimes deals
Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
feel-good feels colour
Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
clothes way
Choose your clothes for your way of life.
years age looks
My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.
done lambs ovens
If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?
stars real class
Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.