What a fascinating, beautiful, bittersweet reflection and introspection from the sharp, über-talented, strong-willed mind behind that the supremely beautiful face of Joan Crawford 👸🏻💕.
This really got me to empathize with her, her spouse, their evolving circumstances in their relationship, and to also reflect on certain loving relationships in my own life over the years...
For my *FIRST POST EVER* (yay!) on this amazing, beautiful fan site + web forum about the amazing and beautiful Joan Crawford, I shall go deep and write probably waaaaay too long here (my apologies in advance! lol).
It's always a bit heartbreaking when two people who are right for each other in SOOOOO many ways ~ and who satisfy each other on multiple levels ~ end up breaking apart for reasons...
It sounds like Joan wast being, perhaps, a little hard on herself, because as we all know: "It takes twooooo, baaaaby!".
Joan's description of Franchot being extremely loving, intelligent, and considerate really reminds me of myself - several friends and exes who are still like sisters to me tend to describe me that way. lol! While I'm not particularly haunted, I suppose I can be insecure (and a lil' bit sensitive) at times.
Joan says, "If I'd tried a little harder-- who knows."
This says to me she really, really missed him...
It's fascinating how we, as humans, often ponder the many "What If?"s in life... or things like the fantastical notion of time-travel! Hahaha
Imagining myself in their situation:
Gosh, if I had had the good fortune of being in Franchot's position and in a loving marriage with the extremely good-looking, absolutely GORGEOUS, brilliant, driven, playful, and passionate Joan Crawford 💁🏻♀️💕 I probably would have bent over backwards to keep things working great with her. To do my best to bring continued joy, support, harmony, and passion:
I'd try my damndest to thoughtfully, diplomatically communicate with Joan, ask her about her own changing / evolving needs, too.
Definitely I'd be mindful to not neglect the basics that we both loved from the start... been patient and understanding through any tumultuous emotions or "not-so-nice" times (lol), and always have my arms wide open for hugging Joan and holding her (or me being held by her, too!) anytime she wanted.
Then again, sometimes even that is not enough... people fall in love with others, or temporarily become numb to what used to charge their bodies and hearts and souls with ecstatic pleasure and electric passion!
Even if Joan and Franchot's marriage didn’t last forever (who's does?), they definitely had an amazing run!
One of their earliest encounters before getting married, Joan emerging from a swimming pool (or was utca shower?), the two of them disappearing and not emerging / not being seen 'til late next morning sure sounds like a magnetic connection from the start!
And apparently a super sweet, caring ending many years later in his terminal condition, too.
I think it's sweet when lovers can still be great friends afterwards...
Plus... it allowed Joan to be more free to enjoy and share many more passionate loves with several other lovely women and men! Joan's many sensual, romantic loves is one of the things I find super fascinating about her. 💁🏻♀️😃😇
Welcome and great first post. If you have not seen the Franchot Tone thread, there are two interesting articles linked there...
www.altfg.com/film/franchot-tone/backstoryclassic.com/2018/03/beyond-ambition-beyond-success-franchot-tone-and-joan-crawford/I think Joan really regretted the marriage with Tone not working out, and they remained friends until the end, literally.
I was watching a Joan documentary and someone quoted Tone as saying that the reason he divorced JC was that he ran out of adjectives compliment her. I say, dude, get a thesaurus!
