Joan Crawford A Womans Face Brings a Stars Genius to Light
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- Bob Greene: Joan Crawford is my favorite classic-Hollywood actress.
- He says she exemplifies Hollywood’s paradoxes in concentrated form.
- Greene: She was a rambunctious child, recalled by neighbors as a ‘complete tomboy’ Greene: Her failure in college proved to be her success in life and art.
- She was in few great films and not even many good ones, but her acting, at its peak, is different in kind from that of her similarly celebrated peers.
Once Crawford slipped into her style, she never slipped out of itnot publicly. Never in the thousands of times in our association, was she ever less than perfectly dressed, in full makeup, a publicis [+6109 chars]
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