Possessed (50 page)

186
“Joan Crawford was slightly confused”
Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,”
Los Angeles Times,
March 12, 1947.

“sharp words and nagging”
For remarks about the Crawford-Bautzer affair, see Chandler, 365–67, and an interview with Bautzer at http://www.filmsof crawford.com/id150.html.

“the most photographed”
Edwin Schallert,
Los Angeles Times,
October 1, 1946.

187
“Joan Crawford turned in”
Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,”
Los Angeles Times,
February 5, 1948.

“Joan Crawford’s flare-up”
Dorothy Kilgallen, “Voice of Broadway,”
New York Journal American,
July 14, 1948.
“that scared the daylights”
Christina Crawford, 66.

189
“performing with the passion”
James Agee, review of
Possessed, Time,
June 16, 1947.

CHAPTER TEN

190
“I seem to be the follow-up”
Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,”
Los Angeles Times,
February 10, 1947.

191
Eager to give more children
On the natural parents of Cathy and Cindy Crawford, see Shirley Downing, “Quest Led Joan Crawford Twins, Others, to Tennessee,”
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
September 11, 1995.

“the kindest, sweetest man”
Chandler, 346. 193
“When Joan didn’t include”
Tapert, 64.

“That evil goddamned”
Christina Crawford, 213, 215.

195
“Unexpected moments”
Ibid., 237.

“Mommie was with me”
Morton J. Goulding, “The Revolt of Joan Crawford’s Daughter,”
Redbook,
October 1960; this is also the source of Christina’s subsequent quotations unless otherwise specified.

196
“She was not a maternal”
Tapert, 65.

“Joan never complained”
Chandler, 78.

“loved those children” Joan Crawford: Always the Star,
television special, first broadcast 18 October 1996 by A&E, written and directed by Gene Feldman and Suzette Winter; this is also the source of the comments by Herbert Kenwith and Cindy Crawford.

“I think Christina was jealous”
Cindy Crawford Jordan, “Was She Devil or Doting Mom?”
People,
October 19, 1981; see also Downing, “Quest Led Joan.”

“My mother was a very warm”
Cathy Crawford LaLonde,
Good Morning America,
ABC-TV, May 28, 1981; see also Jordan, “Was She Devil” and Chandler, 551–59.

199
“Christina had, in a way”
Judy Feiffer, interview with author, September 10, 2009.

“never out of control”
Chandler, 362–63.

“Everything about the book”
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, review of
Mommie Dearest
by Christina Crawford,
New York Times,
December 6, 1978.

200
“utterly nonsensical”
Howard Barnes, review of
Flamingo Road, New York Herald Tribune,
May 9, 1949.

201
“an amazingly deft”
Review of
It’s a Great Feeling, New York Herald Tribune,
August 2, 1949.

202
“I had heard so many stories”
Feldman and Winter.

“Shephoned me”
Sherman spoke and wrote widely about his relationship with JC. See Sherman, 204 and 195–217; Chandler, 368–424; and Sherman’s remarks in his commentary on
The Damned Don’t Cry,
released on DVD in 2005, and in
Joan Crawford, The Ultimate Movie Star,
directed by Peter Fitzgerald (Turner Classic Movies, 2002). 206
“The part of me”
Vogel, 55. 208
“In many ways”
Sherman, 209.

“The big house”
Cameron Shipp, “The Last of the Movie Queens,”
Cosmopolitan,
April 1951.

“Somehow, I couldn’t follow”
Ibid. See also Crawford, “What Men Have Done to Me,”
Modern Screen,
November 1951.

211 "Goodbye, My Fancy
could have been”
Vogel, 116.

212
“For some reason”
Sherman, 212.

214
“This picture is trash”
Thompson, 195.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

215
“Warners was putting me”
Vogel, 115.

220
“By reducing a performer”
Review of
Torch Song, Time,
October 12, 1953. 222
“It was a miserable time”
Morton J. Goulding, “The Revolt of Joan Crawford’s Daughter,”
Redbook,
October 1960.
“My brother and I”
Christina Crawford, 152. 226
“Unfortunately … McCambridge’s alcoholism” Joan Crawford, The Ultimate Movie Star,
directed by Peter Fitzgerald (Turner Classic Movies, 2002).
“As a human being”
Tapert, 55.

228
“repeated dinners”
“John Ireland Remembers Joan Crawford,” an excerpt from John Ireland’s unpublished autobiography, appeared in
Scarlet Street
magazine, no. 50 (2004).

229
“with such silky villainy” “When she is killed”
Reviews of
Queen Bee
published on November 8, 1955—by William K. Zinsser in the
New York Herald-Tribune
and by Bosley Crowther in the
New York Times,
respectively.

231
“I was unutterably lonely”
Thomas, 190.

“The first meeting was strange”
Goulding, “The Revolt.”

CHAPTER TWELVE

233
“It was sheer hell”
Richard Gehman, “Joan Crawford: Her Fourth Marriage—The Beginning, the End, the New Future,”
McCall’s,
December 1959.
“We were very much in love”
Patricia Bosworth, “ ‘I’m Still an Actress! I Want to Act!’ ”
New York Times,
September 24, 1972.

237
“a mature study of loneliness”
William K. Zinsser, review of
Autumn Leaves, New York Herald-Tribune,
August 2, 1956.

“I admired her”
Miller and Arnold, 13.

238
“I think she felt fraudulent”
Feldman and Winter.

239
“She will be able to study”
Barbara L. Goldsmith, “Joan Crawford Introduces Her Daughter to Show Business,”
Woman’s Home Companion,
August 1956. Photographer Eve Arnold documented Christina’s week with Joan in New York and later wrote an essay laced with factual errors and noteworthy for her intense and dyspeptic hatred of JC.

“If you ever decide”
Morton J. Goulding, “The Revolt of Joan Crawford’s Daughter,”
Redbook,
October 1960.
“and yet after each day”
Ibid.
“I began to have”
Christina Crawford, 241.

240
“Christina dear”
Ibid., 243.
“I continued to get”
Ibid., 244.

241
“Joan Crawford is a star”
Review of
The Story of Esther Costello, Time,
November 4, 1957.

244
“for the utter waste”
Quirk and Schoell, 200.

“I know how lucky I was”
Dora Albert, “Joan Crawford: ‘The Hollywood I Knew,’ ”
Screenland,
January 1964.

245
“not merely a sentimental gesture”
Widely reported in the press—e.g.,
Los Angeles Times,
May 7, 1959.

“I plan to be a working member” Time,
May 18, 1959.

245
“I thought that coming out”
Laura Jacobs, “The Lipstick Jungle,”
Vanity Fair,
March 2004.

246
“No matter what others”
John Springer, interview with author, May 4, 1991.
“What I would have done”
Roberta Ormiston, “Life Is for Living,”
Lady’s Circle,
May 1972.

247
“I have turned to work”
Albert, “Joan Crawford.”

248
“That was my first experience”
Diane Baker, interview with author, November 2008 and May 2009. See also Susan King, “For Diane Baker, One Scene Leads to 50 Years,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 26, 2009.

For one awkward scene
Hope Lange’s contretemps with JC and JC’s redraft of a scene in the Sommer screenplay were reported in Gehman, “Joan Crawford.”

249
“I don’t kid myself” Life,
October 5, 1959.

“It’s difficult to get”
Gehman, “Joan Crawford.”

252
“I sent the novel”
Robert Aldrich, “Care and Feeding of
‘Baby Jane,
“
New York Times,
November 4, 1962. On the production of
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
see Newquist and Crawford with Ardmore; also JC’s interview by Philip Jenkinson, BBC, 1968, and her interview by John Springer, Town Hall, April 8, 1973.

253
“they were sisters”
Sherman, 201.

255
“Bette Davis is a joy”
JC, letter to Ann Gundersen, August 25, 1962.

256
“Will it be disappointing”
Hedda Hopper, “Bette and Joan: No Collision Course for Hollywood Stars,”
Los Angeles Times,
September 16, 1962.

“Months before the awards”
Albert, “Joan Crawford.”
“Bob Aldrich loves”
JC, interview by John Springer.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

257
“I want to make it”
James Bacon, “Child of a Living Legend,”
Chicago Tribune,
September 23, 1962.

“My mother was genuinely”
Christina, 246–49.

“Among the new players”
Dora Albert, “Joan Crawford: ‘The Hollywood I Knew,’ ”
Screenland,
January 1964.

“She was the boss”
Susan King, “For Diane Baker, One Scene Leads to 50 Years,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 26, 2009.

“We’ll end on me”
Diane Baker recalled the circumstances of making three films with JC during interviews with the author in November and December 2008 and in May 2009.

269
“Okay, bring ‘em on”
John Ireland, “John Ireland Remembers Joan Crawford,”
Scarlet Street
magazine, 2004.

270
“I was the cosmetician”
Simon Doonan, “A Condom for Your Couch? Carleton Varney on Mrs. Clean,”
New York Observer,
February 25, 2002. See also
Architectural Digest,
March-April 1976 and the “Celebrity Homes” special edition of 1977.

“I’m up early”
Roderick Mann, “Crawford: ‘Listen,’ She Says, ‘I Like to Work,’ “
New York Times,
August 24, 1969.

271
“When Joan arrived”
Weaver, 79; the chapter on Cohen and Crawford is also reproduced at http://www.hermancohen.com/interview-attack6.html.