Joan Crawford | The Caretakers | 1963

[@jimrick6632]

I WAS INVITED TO VISIT THE SET ON THE DESILU LOT BACK IN LATE 1961 TO WATCH A SCENE THEY WERE FILMING OF "THE CARETAKERS".........THE DIRECTOR WAS HALL BARTLETT AND HIS FATHER AND MINE WERE FRIENDS FROM KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI...I WAS 21 AT THE TIME AND A REAL STAR STRUCK YOUNG MAN...SO THIS WAS A THRILL TO WATCH HOW MOVIES WERE MADE....AND THERE WAS JOAN CRAWFORD IN ALL HER GLORY WAITING TO BE CALLED TO THE SET...SHE WAVED AT ME AND CAME OVER TO SAY HELLO...WHAT A WARM AND CARING THING TO DO, SEEING I WAS ILL AT EASE BEING LEFT ALONE ON MY OWN...I STILL REMEMBER HER KINDNESS...

[@marias7599]

They say she was very grateful with fans

[@ethos1236]

Why are you shouting?

[@GERONIMORE]

Cool!

[@JM-lw3nx]

She was photographed beautifully here.

[@ruthnagarya2028]

My God she was in her 60's here...she looks amazing!

[@jenameagher5712]

57 :)

[@andrewthornhill7042]

She was around 58 years old here.

[@ceejay4688]

What's couple of years, she still looked amazing.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

​@@andrewthornhill704256. She filmed this in 1962 and she was born in 1906.

[@andrewthornhill7042]

@@Garsons-oq4lh Sources differ on Crawford's year of birth. While official entries listed it as 1904, Joan herself always maintained she was born in 1908, which put youth on her side. But as her brother Hal was born in late 1903, slowly thinking has put her birth-year as anything between 1905 and 1907. I have always leaned toward 1905, so in 1963 (the year The Caretakers was released) she would've been 58. But there's no real proof of age, so she could've been anything from 54 upwards.

[@britneenicoledee4083]

She was such an amazing actress, every role she was in I believed that was really her, she took it on and became it. Even in later years she was still so beautiful 😍

[@marias7599]

She died being beautiful

[@themacfan]

All of her movies are the best . The way she plays the script no one will EVER be able to play . Charisma uniqueness nerve and talent that’s all about Joan Crawford .

[@simonac.926]

Joan Crawford could read the phone book and make that movie interesting. She just had it. The screen becomes her.

[@johnniemaddux1226]

Nice to have Crawford's scenes like this, instead of having to skip/search for them. Thanks!

[@michellebaker1974]

I love Joan Crawford, she was a phenomenal actress.

[@lemonhead162]

Her neck was always in shadow! Haha! She knew exactly how the key lights worked and used it to her advantage!

[@bgmeadows6085]

In spite of her private life, Crawford was a phenomenal actress.

[@ianfrancis777]

That, I will give her.

[@1911beauty]

They tried to make it seem as if she were less talented than Bette Davis. I couldn't agree less. Joan was phoenomenal

[@suenatewa7472]

Wow! Constance Ford! She was on "Another World" I can't believe she worked with Joan Crawford!! Thank You for this video.

[@mattbernabe]

Mildred Pierce was Joan's best film. Possessed was her best performance. She was obviously great in Mildred Pierce, but she showed a different range in her performance in Possessed. Wish she did more Film Noir's. In Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, the beach scene where she gives her dying confession is some of her best work. She should have been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for that film.

[@NOTHEOTHERGUY]

I completely agree. Unlike Bette Davis shouting lines of dialogue (aided by an excellent choice of make-up), Joan's performance was VERY methodical and had much more depth. And to think Bette was sure she'd win for chewing up scenery like she did in that movie. Ha! Now, I do love that film (who doesn't?).

[@brmnyc]

I totally agree with you. I love her dramatic performance in Possessed.

[@KanishQQuotes]

For me it was "a woman's face"

[@fliplinefungus]

@@NOTHEOTHERGUY I don't. Too many glaring plot holes for my taste. (I can't be the only one who noticed those.)

[@caliden3785]

I never have seen Joan in this movie........Joan always outshined most in a scene.

[@JohnnyGNV]

Don't we all wish that professionally and artfully placed shadows could follow us around in real life after a certain age...

[@tedmackey3125]

No matter how bright the scene is lit, Joan always has shadows on her face, especially her neck area. This was key lighting hardly to be find in todays movies.

[@jimrick6632]

THE DIRECTOR WAS HALL BARTLETT AND WAS THE SON OF MY FATHERS BEST FRIEND...I WAS INVITED TO VISIT THE FILMING ON THE DESILU (FORMERLY RKO) LOT...MS. CRAWFORD LOOKED FANTASTIC IN PERSON AND WAS VERY NICE TO ME...

[@jimrick6632]

THIS IS LADDER DAY CRAWFORD....I WAS A FRIEND OF THE DIRECTOR, HAL BARTLETT, AND WAS ON SET AT DESILU TO WATCH CRAWFORD FILM SOME SCENES...WORD PERFECT EVERY TIME..AND SHE WAS NO KID ANYMORE...

[@Themanwhocameback2]

You mean, "Latter day", of course.

[@rn2332]

I love Joan Crawford she was an actress Before Time I think that today she would have been appreciated a little more why can't anyone upload the caretakers 1963 with Joan Crawford

[@rn2332]

Why don't somebody upload the full movie of caretaker with Joan Crawford it would be so wonderful☺

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

I find her facinating, and beautiful, a very interesting actress

[@chriscanale9535]

love Joan. ..

[@Themanwhocameback2]

"The intelligent use of force". Yes, Joan knew all about that. And I say it with respect and understanding. Poor Herbert Marshall was not well. I think this was his last film.

[@tomc8115]

Second to last movie role. Marshall was excellent in Trouble in Paradise with Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis.

[@jimrick6632]

I WAS 22 BACK IN 1962 WHEN MY DAD AND I WERE VISITING HAL BARTLETT ON THE SET OF THE "CARETAKERS" FILMED ON THE DESILU LOT.......HE WAS DIRECTING THAT DAY AN INTENSE SCENE WITH POLLY BERGAN....BUT CRAWFORD WAS WATCHING ON THE SIDE LINES...I WAS SEATED NEXT TO HER AND FOUND HER TO BE A NICE WOMAN........ ...I REMEMBER BEING FED A LOT OF JOAN CRAWFORD FILMS IN THE EARLY FIFTIES....SO OF COURSE I KNEW WHO SHE WAS....SHE ASK WHO I WAS, WHERE I WAS FROM. ETC.......NOT THE SAME NASTY WOMAN I HAD SEEN ON THE SCREEN...BUT STILL I WAS INTIMATED BY HER SITTING NEXT TO ME....A TRUE STAR.....

[@sharksport01]

So you met her twice?

[@1911beauty]

excellent actress

[@ron-waynehoekstra7007]

What a cast , old Hollywood and new , Barbra BelGeddes , mom on Southfork , Dallas for years , Robert Stack , that voice , face , and several times in pictures Bette Davis ‘s leading man ......Herbert Marshall .

[@marcosvalenca]

Concluding Chapter, thank you for this. It saved me from watching the whole film to see Crawford as The Caretakers seem to be a terrible movie.

[@scotttaylor6184]

Crawford was not the star of this film but she stole every scene

[@theloyalone100]

Mildred Pierce was her best film.

[@theloyalone100]

Yes Queen Bee was great as well as Sudden Fear. Someone on KZbin uploaded all of Joan's earlier films including several of her silent films but unfortunately they were all removed due to copyright infringement but it was great to see them. As an actress, Joan Crawford represented the era she lived in very well.

[@LoveFlatfootin1]

I love her movies. Recently saw "Female on the Beach" and enjoyed it. She's always fascinating to watch. Even enjoyed her in "Trog."

[@jackanthony976]

" I saw Joan in "Possessed" just yesterday in a movie theatre in New York... a movie theatre which includes older classic films on its schedule. It was amazing to see "Possessed" on the big movie screen just like it was originally seen by audiences in 1947.

[@tiffythekewlchick3457]

TheRmjr yes but humoresque was in 1946 which she received the Oscar when she was doing humoresque and it was six months after Mildred Pierce released. I think she should've gotten an Oscar for Possessed

[@tiffythekewlchick3457]

theloyalone100 I love that film. Her performance in Possesed(1947)

[@Seabasstien]

Cool to see Herbert Marshall with Joan Crawford

[@spectaclereplication]

She seems shrouded in shadows but that's how she liked it, made her look younger.

[@jaycharles4009]

Quindecillion she always required the same lighting technique. Every time she moved in a scene,she would be moving into a preset lighting arrangement that cast a shadow over her forehead and neck.

[@marias6354]

I love Joan so much...

[@chrisn7259]

Joan's big ole' face was made for the camera, especially when she carries around her own shadows for effect!

[@jupitermarx]

The Nurse? Wasn’t she the actress that played Rachel’s Mother on Another World??

[@daniellarkins3849]

Yes

[@nicety8425]

Unsolved mysteries

[@loribau2842]

ha

[@zlatkajupe]

she's so pretty

[@MsBackstager]

I'll try to find and view the full movie.

[@jimbuchelt307]

How ironically odd that while she didn't otherwise care for the [post] Baby Jane "slashers"--as she referred to them--that followed, yet she didn't bother to state anything in regards to this film. Which seemed a good part for her to partake in. Definitely not a horror flick, and ideally accurate with the psychiatric wards of that era.

[@wilsonwatt9283]

This film must have been hysterical funny to real people working with mental illness. It totally misrepresents what was known, even in 1953, about work with patients with severe enough mental illnesses to need long-term hospitalization. Even today, borderline personality disorder is known to take very dangerous behavioral turns in some patients and is considered one of the most difficult of all mental health disorders to treat successfully.

[@matthewdeckerofficial]

My mother has been working with these kinds and more patients for more than over 26 years, this, is a movie. Movies really only represent this medical field rarely and to the degree where it truly shows how it is to be a psychiatric nurse or doctor (my mom is assigned only a few patients and yes this film might not be accurate to even then but still...artistic license vs being in the real thing are two totally different things, and my mom is only allowed to talk to me about the aspects of the job and never can say how her full day was because of the hippa (spelling may be off sorry) act/law. Joan Crawford and bob stack did an amazing job in this film and the one for me who takes the cake is Joan. You know she’s living it vs just acting like everyone else the expression and feelings she’s going through in this can be transpired so well, and in this time period they were putting people still in padded isolation because it was a danger for themselves and most importantly the patient but we’ve changed enough to the point where we don’t need that technique anymore. So in a way this film serves as a time capsule/ also takes on a bit of dramatic acting. Right?

[@shebamaree9026]

where did you get your doctorate?

[@wilsonwatt9283]

@@shebamaree9026 I am not sure why you want to know but I received my doctorate from the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle.

[@wilsonwatt9283]

@@shebamaree9026 I got my doctorate from the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle campus. Where did you get yours?

[@vistaestrada]

"man to man?"

[@davefuller3311]

+vistaestrada Yes! Best line in the whole terrific over the top movie.

[@MsBackstager]

Here with vintage star HERBERT MARSHALL.

[@anonymoushard1025]

Joan Crawford was a judo expert.

[@JudithSanchez-j3k]

Her eye brows it takes to much of Her face it makes her like harder person ❤

[@ChrisF-lb9wt]

In her 60s and still had a killer bod.

[@JudithSanchez-j3k]

Is that Robert attack from the Intachables and Unsolved mysteries ?

[@thatscousedude]

I would love to get my hands on the full film. Any pointers?

[@porkyoblivion]

on ebay for £2.95 +postage www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221671666957?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[@davefuller3311]

+Bumblebert it is available on Warner Brothers Archive site. I own a good copy i bought from them.

[@jackanthony976]

The film was available in most video stores for rent. I rented this film from my video store for $2.00 7 years ago. Now that technology has forced the closure of all the video stores your guess is as good as mine as to how to access this film.

[@porkyoblivion]

All of Joans movies are available on ebay ,They are all out of Copyright now so are freely available from several sellers ....usually only very cheap, some with and some without Box covers ......

[@jonnyp241984]

Same here!

[@maunster3414]

I'm so glad I don't work with psych patients anymore.

[@ttclett]

65

[@jenameagher5712]

57

[@Muswell]

What a strange topic for a film.

[@chriskellerson9740]

bootsamou Strange as her affected speech and hair 😂😂😂😂

[@seandineen999]

Herbert Marshall, looks like the great propaganda expert, Sir Robert Thompson.

[@rjddurhamnc]

TROG!!!

[@gregfactor3121]

Listen to any police show...

[@gregfactor3121]

Baloney ! I've heard other English actors/actresses pronounce it correctly and besides the other actors in that movie pronounced it correctly., not even English actors say homo cide.

[@gregfactor3121]

Joan Crawford was a great actress but she wasn't pronouncing homicidal correctly

[@Muswell]

Greg Factor She said it correctly. How would you pronounce it?

[@mikehudson8884]

Sounded OK to me....

[@tiffythekewlchick3457]

Greg Factor she pronounced it right, but they way she spoke was differently and might have sounded more professional so that's probably why it sounds like that

[@eightiesaddictone9063]

Joan does not play games.

[@nursegrace7492]

Why doesn't her forehead move? Wasn't this pre Botox?

[@Kykylandfarming]

Nurse Grace she had very vigorous skin care routine! She would rinse her face with ice water and that basically tighten her skin.

[@iheartbridalcouture5989]

It was an elastic headband under the hair. It pulled your skin back. Before plastic surgery

[@jimrick6632]

I AM A GREAT FAN OF JOAN CRAWFORD..BUT WATCHING THESE CLIPS BRINGS BACK BAD MEMORIES OF JOAN...I WAS 21 AND VISITING HOLLYWOOD WITH MY FATHER...HE WAS GREAT FRIENDS WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THIS FILM, HAL BARTLETT....I WAS INVITED TO DESILU (OLD RKO STUDIOS) TO WATCH SOME OF THE FILMING OF "THE CARETAKERS"...MISS CRAWFORD WAS HAVING A BAD HAIR DAY AND TOOK HER HOSTILITY OUT ON ANY ONE AROUND...DIANE MC BAIN, A YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS.WAS ONE OF MS. CRAWFORDS OBJECTS AND AS DIANE MENTIONS IN HER BOOK, HAD MANY OF HER SCENES CUT..SO SOME OF THE THINGS YOU HEAR ABOUT CRAWFORDS MEANESS ARE TRUE..I SAW IT...

[@Themanwhocameback2]

This contradicts your other post. How bizarre! Why do you write in all caps? Strange.

Liar!

[@gregfactor3121]

Do a dictionary.com and it's pronounced Hama cidal. Not homo

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

I find her facinating, and beautiful, a very interesting actress.

[@richardmccoy9276]

Love you Joan!!!