Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945)

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9 ай бұрын

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@goldduxt 9 ай бұрын

“Mildred was a meaty James M. Cain story. Jerry Wald fought for me. I heard what Curtiz said: “Her and her damned shoulder pads!” But when he broke down and cried, watching my test scene, I knew he’d support me and he did. I asked to test with each potential member of the cast-a task usually relegated to a stock actress but I’d been away from the cameras so long-and I was eager to get to work, and not in the garden or the kitchen for a change. It took six weeks of testing to select our cast: Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott and Bruce Bennett. For my early scenes, the studio designed some cotton frocks. Mr. Curtiz said NO, they looked too smart. I went down to Sears Roebuck on my own and bought the kind of housedresses I thought Mildred would wear. When I arrived on the set for wardrobe tests, Mr. Curtiz walked over to me, shouting, “You and your damned Adrian shoulder pads. This stinks!” And he ripped the dress from neck to hem. (off her, left in her bra..) “Mr. Curtiz,” I sobbed, “I bought this dress this morning for two dollars and ninety-eight cents, there are no shoulder pads,” and I rushed to my dressing room in tears. The assistant director followed me. “Don’t let him hurt you, Joan. This is the way he likes to start a picture, he’ll needle you if you’ll let him. Don’t let him.” An actress friend told me the same thing she’d just finished a picture with Curtiz and was a nervous wreck. We had no more arguments about clothes. I didn’t care what I wore, I sailed into Mildred with all the gusto I’d been saving for three years, not a Crawford mannerism, not a trace of my own personality. My gift to Mr. Curtiz- -a pair of Adrian’s supersize shoulder pads. He is a master director, but you have to be a mistress of comedy to get along with him. Mr. Mayer ran Mildred Pierce, Humoresque and Possessed and made his MGM producers look at them each three times. “She’s through, is she?” he said. “Why couldn’t we have done this here? Every one of them is Academy timber!”” - JOAN CRAWFORD in her book A PORTRAIT OF JOAN (1962)

@nancyjob9804 9 ай бұрын

God, what a queen she was/is❤

@dinspringstead6636 9 ай бұрын

One of her greatest.

@rayazevedo5921 9 ай бұрын

I've watched this at least 50 times and never get tired of it!! Never!!! I had the pleasure of meeting miss Arden who co started in this she was at the time president of March of Dimes in Hollywood I was in a dance revues for that charity she was so nice to me and a real Star!!