Joan Crawford Does The Charleston

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[@mikedrown2721]

I met Joan when she was in charge of Pepsi Cola and Frieto-Lay. She opened the new Pepsi bottle plant in Rochester NY in 1964. Some of us friends skipped school that day just to meet her. I still have her autograph on her photo.

[@mylifeisaparty]

this makes me happy

[@BritInvLvr]

So love Miss Joan as an actress.

[@me1747]

She changed dramatically as she aged. I would never guess this is the same woman as the actress.

[@susansanchez4794]

Joan Crawford loved to dance since she was a little girl, fun fact: she was married to Douglas Fairbanks,jr. Thank you for sharing this with us all, love your channel, hello from Orange County, CA 🤗👋

[@radicalross7700]

This reminds me of the 1933 movie Dancing Lady. It was a showcase of Joan Crawford's versatility: Serious acting with Clark Gable and Franchot Tone; comedy with Ted Healy and his boys, Howard, Fine, and Howard (Whatever became of those guys?); song and dance with some hoofer named Fred Astaire.

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

How did I miss this?? I love Joan Crawford so much! Thank you.

[@maxlinder5262]

This is what help make her popular . with people .... also with MGM. They should do a bio of her beginning ..thru the 1930 s . leaving MGM ..... would be interesting ...

[@AntajuanGrady]

i always thought in the early 2000s, they should've made one of her with Angelina Jolie!

[@tomc8115]

Agreed. Her early story from rags to riches is a fascinating one.

[@catlover34fl]

The lady could do it all, great acting in musicals, dramas, even a few comedic rolls. Dancing Lady 1933 is one of my favorite of her early films. I can't think of a Joan Crawford film that I have not enjoyed, and I've seen most of them. Enjoyed your channel.

[@brittlizzzzzz]

Fun fact- Joan originally hated the name Crawford, she thought it sounded too much like Crawfish.

[@RobinGH]

I read that she hated "Joan", too. She tried to get it pronounced like "Jo-ann". I guess no matter how much she disliked it she had to admit it was better than Lucille LaSeure.

[@glennso47]

How about Broderick Crawford? LaSeure is a town in Minnesota where Green Giant was headquartered

[@searchthewind99]

It would have been Joan Arden if there wasn't another actress with that name.

[@Nigelsmom2136]

She starred in "Our Dancing Daughters" in 1928.

[@VUTUV1900]

A onde eu estava nessa epoca incrivel............. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@wvanderwahl]

Joan achieved everything that was expected of a movie star. Even more impressive is that she never went beyond the sixth grade and often had to ask her costars what words meant as she tried to read the scripts.

[@LynneWright]

It actually wasn’t that unusual to not go past the 6th grade, especially for girls. My grandmother had to go to work after she graduated from elementary school. I have her old report card and on the back of it the students signed an oath to be a good citizen and to be helpful to others.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Do you know what she was forced to do in order to pay the rent before she went to California? Do a hardcore stage film titled," lurid lips. Years later when she was a star she fought to find those films and destroy every copy so no one would blackmail her. She might have wiped out every copy.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

I think Eddie Mannix, the 'fixer' of Hollywood, paid for the film to 'go-away'.

[@joejones9520]

maybe, maybe not, no proof has ever been found, it all started with Douglas Fairbanks biography in which he mentioned it but many people including Joan later in her bio said it is not true and that she didnt make any stag films. We'll never know for sure likely.

[@markturner4301]

A load of crap she never made any stagg movies and so what if she did doesn't detract from her talent ❤

[@lynntownsend4457]

Velvet Lips and she wasn't forced to do it ....

[@lynntownsend4457]

The studio searched and bought them up...her brother blackmailed her and she did go to see Hoover and said if he released them she'd tell everyone he was a drag queen, which he was

[@TransVangal]

What an amazing description of #Joancrawford thank you

[@TimeTheory2099]

I was thinking of Joan Colleens I didn't think she was that old Either way i was hoping to see someone do the Charleston.

[@robertkirchner181]

Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers, great channel

[@ah7910]

Is click-bait a compulsory thing here on KZbin? Did any one else assume by clicking on this video we would actually watch Joan dancing the Charlestown? I’ve listened to a young guy reading an article instead.

[@jazzvictrola7104]

So hard to reconcile this cute flapper with horse-faced harridan of the 40's and 50's. Here she is from the feet up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roGoq3ZpbNN1p5o

[@lynntownsend4457]

She wasn't horse faced in 40's..she was still gorgeous...5o's look extreme but pulled it together in the 60's

[@mikeyh0]

She could act for sure.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Excellent.

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Make a vídeo about a centenary of the film the hunchback of Notre Dame of 1923

[@sandrakenney567]

💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃SHE WAS IN THE 1920 THE BEST CHARLESTON DANCER AND WON BEST CHARLESTON DANCER THEN.AFTER 5HST SHE WAS A DANCER WITH OTHER GIRLS ON FILMS UNTIL ONE DSY LUCK CAME KNOCKING AT HER DOOR AND MOVED ON TO MOVIE ROLES AND THE REST YO NO.GODBLESS YOU JOAN YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN AMEN 🙏🕊🦋🌹🐬🌹💐💃🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋💖🙏🦋

[@roberttelarket4934]

So where is she dancing? That was very sneaky!

[@AntajuanGrady]

*The1920sChannel* What age was Joan in 1926? Are there any 1920s articles mentioning her age cuz there are no real answers besides people saying she was born between 1904 to 1908. She was either 22,21,20 or 19 in 1926.

[@huf67]

No more wire hangers !!

[@timmmahhhh]

DOOON'T F*** WITH ME, FELLAS!!

[@huf67]

@@timmmahhhh 🤣

[@chrisb1478]

TINAAAAAA…bring me the axe!!! All jokes aside I know Hollywood has seriously warped actors over and over again. Having grown up there I can attest to that. We all can have a little case of the upside down bat shits 😉 I absolutely love this channel🖤

[@prudencepineapple9448]

@@chrisb1478 that's my favorite line from the movie.

[@clod8]

I always wondered how she could be so cute in the 1920’s only to become so weird in just a couple decades.

[@dreadfulspiller8766]

She was rather attractive till the mid 30s.

[@huf67]

Most women are ...🤣

[@huf67]

@@dreadfulspiller8766 ... I knew what you meant. I was just trying to be funny.

[@ccgrey8731]

@@dreadfulspiller8766 Well her hairstyles became extreme I agree and she looked harsher in the 1940's. Early on she was much softer looking.

[@clod8]

She started doing weird things to her lips in the 1940’s.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

@@clod8 And enormous shoulder-pads.

[@ianpeddle6818]

I love Crawford films - of course they had fabulous writers and brilliant stories. They paced films much better in the golden era. I find modern films invariably so slow boring and the screenplays abysmal. They mumble and linger far too long. You can watch an old picture packed with a story with good forward movement. Been watching what we’re essentially b movies on KZbin and even they are more entertaining than many of todays films. I think the industry is now obsessed with identity politics so the films need to be heavy with box ticking hence lose any semblance’s of meaning.

[@benzo4029]

The correct pronunciation of Monmarte is : Mo Mart. I love Joan in Dancing Daughters, but her 1925 vintage Charleston as captured in "Sally, Irene and Mary" is a disappointment at best. Far from stardom, she doesn't even have the sense to look straight into the camera as all the other chorus girls do... in a line shot as they walk towards it, holding out the skirt of their dance frocks. For all the Charleston hoopla associated with building Joan's stardom, she never did an exciting Charleston routine on film. The other 20's Charleston contest winner/turned actress, Ginger Rogers did however. In "Roxie Hart. "

[@kewkabe]

Why were her children unable to treat her respect? That's the greatest crime here.

[@clod8]

No wire hangers

[@searchthewind99]

She was very harsh with her adopted children. It was like living in hell.