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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2020 18:28:24 GMT -6
What is your favorite 1930s Joan film?
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ketvo
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Post by ketvo on Dec 4, 2020 15:10:16 GMT -6
I got more than one LOL. there all my favorites
hey does anyone know good sites to download joan movies, i have to update my collection and get more movies
thanks.
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2020 17:59:13 GMT -6
I got more than one LOL. there all my favorites hey does anyone know good sites to download joan movies, i have to update my collection and get more movies thanks. I found this page online that has a list of free download sites: twitgoo.com/best-free-movie-download-sites/ |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Dec 18, 2020 9:14:47 GMT -6
I use to get my Joan Movies from TCM or eBay or another Joan Crawford fan Tom that used the name Billy Cassin. (Spl?). Hey Billy, are you still out there? Ketvo needs more Joan Crawford movies and I need to give you my new email address.
AMAZON has a lot of Joan’s movies now that they never had before. I’ve ordered three 1920 DVD’s so far from them. The delivery takes forever, even with a Prime membership, but the quality is great. Check it out.
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Post by Admin on Dec 20, 2020 0:10:24 GMT -6
hey does anyone know good sites to download joan movies, i have to update my collection and get more movies thanks. The Criterion Channel has 21 Joan movies. Free trial for 2 weeks, but then $10.99 per month: www.criterionchannel.com/starring-joan-crawford-2 |
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Post by ketvo on Feb 5, 2021 15:53:59 GMT -6
thanks. Awesome.
I just watched Bride wore red. Joan handles this role like a dream. never missing any oppertunity to
score blows on her opponants. Contessa is completly out classed. Joan is a legendary actress.
reading the letter . he wishes to be remebered , awesome joan.
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Post by davidmorrocco on Feb 8, 2021 9:14:59 GMT -6
The Bride Wore Red (1937) was Joan Crawford's seventh and final film with Franchot Tone, to whom she was married from 1935 to 1939. Their marriage was already coming apart during filming, due in large part to Tone's drinking and philandering and also because of Crawford's agitation about a series of miscarriages she had suffered and the downward spiral of her career at MGM. Shortly after the release of The Bride Wore Red she was among the stars named as "box-office poison" by the National Theater Distributors of America. Today, however, the movie is championed by Crawford's partisans as one of her best and most representative of its period. I actually liked Joan’s new hair do for this movie. Giulio (Franchot Tone), a philosophical postal clerk who has no desire for wealth and has a funny accent that doesn’t really fit. It had been Tone's idea that Crawford star in the film, adapted from The Girl. With the death of production executive Irving Thalberg the year before, studio head Louis B. Mayer had begun to exercise his personal preference for completely wholesome screen fare. Luise Rainer had originally been set to star in the film, under the direction of Dorothy Arzner, one of the few female directors of Hollywood's studio era. Crawford steeped into the role. Crawford initially was excited about working with Arzner, but their relationship grew so chilly as the film progressed that they stopped speaking and resorted to communicating through a series of notes delivered by studio publicist Maxine Thomas.. Crawford's dazzling wardrobe, as important as any element in the movie, it was created by MGM's top designer, Adrian. The title outfit, a form-fitting sheath in varying shades of red to further emphasize the Crawford figure, cost a reported $10,000 and included 30 pounds of, or two million, bugle beads. Joan and Adrian were a great fashion team. Just some movie trivia from another great Joan Crawford fan.
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ketvo
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Post by ketvo on Feb 17, 2021 14:43:53 GMT -6
thanks, david awesome.
Joan was having an afair with robert taylor i read in a article column. Joan off screen was out of the relationship with tone
but there on screen chemistry is obvious. you get to see what they would have been like in real life i figure.
Joans husbands, partners seem to not really have worked out. i hate alfred steele. my opingion.
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Post by davidmorrocco on Mar 17, 2021 9:07:05 GMT -6
I watched Today We Live 1933. Today We Live was the only time Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper performed together. Once Crawford was signed, an effort to go for a similar star name led to Cooper coming on board. Press releases had reported that Crawford had insisted on Cooper as her co-star. In real-life Crawford meets and falls in love with Franchot Tone. Crawford was just divorced from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. She and Franchot Tone fell in love and started their romance leading to marriage, while making this film. Crawford and Davis’ infamous feud began when Crawford learned that Bette Davis was sexually interested in Franchot Tone. Crawford then invited Tone over to her place and answered the door naked. (Could be true?) They divorced three-and-a-half years later. Since their characters, Tone and Crawford in this movie are brother and sister; it's very interesting to watch the passion and kisses between them than between Joan and her other two leading men, who were to be the love interest. Franchot Tone can speak with a few words, not full sentences to make his statements well known. Designer Adrian makes Joan look beautiful as always and also gives Franchot a nice ass in his uniform. Irving Thalberg, the vice-president of MGM studios at the time, insisted that Crawford be written into the script as she was contractually committed to a $500,000 salary. Was that part first Offered to his wife Norma Shearer? In obtaining General Douglas MacArthur's help in reserving March Field in California, individual aerial sequences were shot although footage from Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930) including the bomber mission, the "dogfight" sequence complete with the head-on collision of two aircraft. I am not a war time movie fan, but the action in the air and on the water got my attention. Betty Barker, Joan’s personal assistant was to become a personal secretary to Howard Hughes. Between working for Joan and Howard, I would have loved the chance to sit down with Betty Barker and have her spill the tea or dish the dirt, but that was never her style. She was a great friend to Joan. I respect her for that.
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Post by tom on Apr 2, 2021 17:52:48 GMT -6
I got more than one LOL. there all my favorites hey does anyone know good sites to download joan movies, i have to update my collection and get more movies thanks. Try ok.ru |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Apr 3, 2021 7:37:25 GMT -6
I’ve just gotten a few older Joan DVD’s on Amazon. They must have updated their inventory because they never had such a big collection of Miss Joan movies before. Even with a Prime membership, it takes a month for the DVD’s to arrive, but it’s worth it. They are new and good quality. Check it out. I know you’ll find some to add to your collection.
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Post by tom on Apr 6, 2021 12:39:10 GMT -6
I like Paid. It's a great role, and I think one of the first opportunities to see JC transition from her breezy, Jazz Baby "It Girl" image to a more serious actress.
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Post by davidmorrocco on Apr 26, 2021 8:22:02 GMT -6
I watched 1930 Montana Moon last night. I love to be able to give you the behind the scenes juice of the movie rather than the plot or storyline of the movie. I can’t come up with anything. I read many different reviews, even admin Stephanie’s review on her BOE website. The only thing that I could find was that Joan was married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and she may have slept with Ricardo Cortez while making this movie. I’m not sure if they had a fling in the hay under the Montana Moon or not. I watched this movie about 20 years ago and was not impressed. Since it was a long time ago I wanted to give it another try. Still the same for me. I watched every movement that Joan made like a hawk on a Montana tree branch and loved her, but not this movie. I picked it to watch because I just saw Our Dancing Daughters with Johnny Mack Brown and Dorothy Sebastian. I loved it. They stared with Joan and all three were great. They teamed up again a couple of years later for this and it was not good. At least Adrian was making the gowns in Montana Moon. He’s a true artist. See, I found something nice to say about this movie. I really wish I could say more. Maybe I’m missing something that you can help me like this movie better. Let me know your thoughts.
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Post by tom on Apr 26, 2021 13:32:59 GMT -6
I watched 1930 Montana Moon last night. I love to be able to give you the behind the scenes juice of the movie rather than the plot or storyline of the movie. I can’t come up with anything. I read many different reviews, even admin Stephanie’s review on her BOE website. The only thing that I could find was that Joan was married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and she may have slept with Ricardo Cortez while making this movie. I’m not sure if they had a fling in the hay under the Montana Moon or not. I watched this movie about 20 years ago and was not impressed. Since it was a long time ago I wanted to give it another try. Still the same for me. I watched every movement that Joan made like a hawk on a Montana tree branch and loved her, but not this movie. I picked it to watch because I just saw Our Dancing Daughters with Johnny Mack Brown and Dorothy Sebastian. I loved it. They stared with Joan and all three were great. They teamed up again a couple of years later for this and it was not good. At least Adrian was making the gowns in Montana Moon. He’s a true artist. See, I found something nice to say about this movie. I really wish I could say more. Maybe I’m missing something that you can help me like this movie better. Let me know your thoughts. I like Joan in this movie, although the acting is a tad over the top. I don't think Joan is as good here as she was in Untamed, her first talkie, to be honest, and the movie she did before this. I don't think she has much material to work with. But, I think Johnny Mack Brown is the one who ruins it with that goofy affected Western accent of his! No wonder they replaced him with Gable for Laughing Sinners. I read somewhere that this may be the first Hollywood instance of a "singing cowboy." |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Apr 27, 2021 7:41:14 GMT -6
I read about this being the first singing cowboy movie too while I was trying to find some fun facts or trivia to post about this movie. I should have put that in my review. Thanks for mentioning it. I also wanted to thank you for taking the time to sit through this movie to try to help be find a better perspective on it. Let’s see if we can find any other Joan Crawford fan to do the same and try to find something good they can tell us about this movie that we may have missed. Ok our dedicated Joan fans, (I dare you to sit through this movie and sincerely post a good review.) I double dare you.
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