Possessed (51 page)

Authors: Donald Spoto

“Joan Crawford said”
Judy Geeson, interview with author, 1998 and 2002; see also
Joan Crawford, The Ultimate Movie Star,
directed by Peter Fitzgerald for Turner Classic Movies, 2002.
“She wears her loneliness”
Mann, “Crawford: ‘Listen.’ ”

273
“I didn’t want them”
Robert Windeler, “Joan Crawford Takes Daughter’s Soap Opera Role,”
New York Times,
October 23, 1968.

“was beginning to relive”
Christina Crawford, 255.

“I refuse to apologize”
Patricia Bosworth, “ ‘I’m Still an Actress! I Want to Act!’ “
New York Times,
September 24, 1972; Mann, “Crawford, ‘Listen.’ ”

274
“proves that Joan” New York Times,
October 19, 1970.

“She was always doing”
Weaver, 79; http://www.hermancohen.com/interviewattack6.html.

276
“and at every pause”
JC,
My Way of Life,
124.
“Charm is a touch of magic”
Ibid., 212.

277
“Every time she appears”
McCandlish Phillips, “Book Promotion,”
New York Times,
December 31, 1971.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

278
“strict discipline … imposed”
Bacon, 23.

279
“We didn’t have any problems”
Kotsilibas-Davis and Loy, 324.
“had her own axe to grind”
Tapert, 64.

“Mommie Dearest
was not an accurate”
Ibid., 64–65.

280
“I haven’t got a clue”
Carl Johnes, “Why Joan Crawford Won’t Go Away,”
Hollywood Then & Now,
August and September 1992.

“My daughter Christina”
JC, interview by John Springer, Town Hall, April 8, 1973.

“Who knows about books”
Alvin Klein, “Meet Carl Johnes—Actor, Agent, Editor, Author,”
New York Times,
January 13, 1985.

281
“one of the most rewarding friendships”
Johnes, 16.

281
Joan’s checkbook stubs
JC’s checkbook stubs and receipts are on deposit with her papers at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

282
“More than anything”
William Haines, letter to JC, December 25, 1972, JC Archives/NYPL.

“In private life ”
George Cukor, “She Was Consistently Joan Crawford, Star,”
New York Times,
May 22, 1977.
“She never took”
Johnes, 96–97.

283
“Well… I didn’t play Harriet Craig”
Ibid., 28.

285
“Most of them are trash”
Patricia Bosworth, “ ‘I’m Still an Actress! I Want to Act!’ ”
New York Times,
September 24, 1972.

“She was very lonely”
Charles Walters, interviewed in
The Hollywood Greats,
television series, first broadcast 3 August 1978 by BBC-TV, written by Barry Norman and directed by Judy Lindsay.

“I’m so sorry I can’t see you”
Adele Whitely Fletcher, “I Remember Joan,”
Modern Screen,
August 1977.

289
“just a wonderful Mom”
Cathy Crawford LaLonde, interviewed by Lois Cahall on
Good Morning America,
ABC-TV, March 16, 2008.

“Mommie Dearest
was fake”
Al Weisel, “Mommie Weirdest,”
US
magazine, November 1998.

“very thin, very frail”
Casey LaLonde is noteworthy for his consistent and ardent defense of his grandmother. See especially http://www.legendaryjoan crawford.com/askcasey.html and http://www.midnightpalace.com/interview caseylalonde.htm.

“All I can say is that”
Cathy LaLonde, Cahall interview.
“I’m so sorry, Mommie”
Chandler, 558–59.

290
“I’ve been on the receiving end”
Fletcher, “I Remember Joan.”
“I always knew that Mother”
Christina, 275–76.

291
“just because it’s more comfortable”
Bosworth, “I’m Still an Actress!”
“Gradually, I filled my life”
JC,
A Portrait of Joan,
122–23.

292
“She sounded timorous”
Johnes, 158–59.

“There’s nothing presented to us”
JC, letter to Pearl Pezoldt, December 14, 1943.

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Index

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21 Club (New York City), 258

39 Steps
(film), 166

42nd Street
(musical), 106

Above Suspicion
(film), 166–67, 168, 170, 179, 201

Academy Awards: for Borzage, 141; for
The Broadway Melody,
62; for Crawford, 183–84; Crawford nominations for, 189, 217; for Curtiz, 174; Davis nomination for, 256; for Gable, 119; for
Grand
Hotel,
93; for
It Happened One Night,
119;
Mildred Pierce
nominations for, 182–84; and
Sudden Fear,
217; and
A Woman’s Face,
156–57

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 18

Across to Singapore
(film), 56

actors/actresses: aging, 241, 262–63; Crawford’s relationships with other, 94, 217–18, 220, 225–26, 247–48, 250; pretending by, 210.
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