Tag: hair
member name: Peter Joseph Swanson
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May 09, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
In 1964 Joan Blondell was to do Straight-Jacket. But she was one of those drunks who always had accidents (they say she even fell out of a moving car, driving drunk, once). Before filming, . . .
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May 09, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
In the early 20s, Joan got her start as a hootchie kootchie dancer. They were dime a dozen, and disposable. One didn't make enough money to live on by doing the dancing, so dinner and . . .
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May 11, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
The 50s Truecolor classic, Johnny Guitar is the western that people love when they hate westerns. And those who love westerns hate it.
Joan wears the pants in this film (When she wears a big . . .
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May 12, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Joan Crawford did ads for all sorts of things. They helped pay the bills (hats, shoes, furs, gloves), and for her to be used so much by such a variety of companies suggests she was very popular . . .
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May 13, 2009 10:12 AM EDT --
Joan played a hootchie kootchie carnie belly dancer at the beginning of Flamingo Road. I couldn't follow the plot, but basically she decided to stay behind, in a town - AND TAKE IT OVER !!! . . .
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May 09, 2009 05:00 PM EDT --
In the 1937 movie The Bride Wore Red (in black and white), Joan had this hair look. Love it or hate it.
She plays a cynical impoverished cabaret singer in Trieste, singing "Who . . .
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May 14, 2009 09:47 AM EDT --
1938 was a year that Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy did all sorts of things together.
Think: "SEX, FILM, SPORTS" for starters.
Spencer loved to play polo a lot and got Joan . . .
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May 15, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
In MGM's 1942 Reunion in France, Joan Crawford plays a fabulous French aristocrat. When the Nazis occupy France, they take over her mansion. They toss all her clothes into a small basement . . .
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August 29, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
In the early 90s I used to have very long hair - I hadn't cut it in over three years so it was as long as it was going to get.
One day I was making a paper mache Big Foot head as a prop for a . . .
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May 07, 2009 11:39 AM EDT --
Joan gave a splendid performance in Berserk. The movie isn't very entertaining, outside of her looking like she's going for her next Academy Award, but that's all the script's fault. . . .
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May 08, 2009 09:41 AM EDT --
In 1972, Joan made her last acting performance in an episode of the TV Show, The Sixth Sense. She is a psychic (who doesn't yet know it) until she is very terrorized by fashionably groovy but . . .
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May 08, 2009 10:23 AM EDT --
In 1968 Joan was on an episode of The Lucy Show, playing herself. Lucy is in Hollywood and sees Joan scrubbing her own floor and so thinks Joan is destitute - and Lucy plots how to help Joan. . . .
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May 08, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
In 1939, when Joan Crawford made The Women, there was the problem of getting all those women's hair done all at once. Norma Shearer was the top studio star with power, being married to the head . . .
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May 18, 2009 09:10 AM EDT --
In my reading glasses ... before I took all my hair off with a clippers the other day. I look better in longish hair in photos like this (I decided) doing a PEEK-a-BOO to YOU (ha ha) ... but I think . . .
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May 19, 2009 05:43 PM EDT --
This is the final professional photo taken of Joan, in 1976. She had some disease that slowly wasted her away. She had stopped drinking and smoking by 1975, and had become a Christian Science . . .
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April 25, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
When Joan got old she just partied a lot. When there wasn't the parties for publicity for Pepsi, there was just the parties for publicity. She even went to parties with the "ungrateful . . .
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May 02, 2009 03:52 PM EDT --
Cleavage ??? Is this important? Bette used to mock Joan's boobs. In Baby Jane she said Joan's boobs kept changing size, and got bigger as the movie went on. Is this important? . . .
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May 07, 2009 06:25 PM EDT --
1968 was a busy year for Joan with Pepsi tours, a few TV spots, and a feature film.
When Joan temporarily replaced her daughter in the soap The Secret Storm, she was holding her daughter's job . . .
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May 08, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
Joan's big screen swansong in 1970 was a dismal little low budget British film, Trog. The Trog mask that was used was an ape man mask left over from 2001 A Space Odyssey. It didn't . . .
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May 08, 2009 03:56 PM EDT --
Look at that 1937 hair from The Last of Mrs Cheyney (she plays a clever criminal - the story is cute and comical) - it's just ROLLED up on her head !!! Love it ... or hate it !!! Vote now !!! . . .
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