Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take exception to your editorial comment that the public is not "clamoring" to buy Joan Crawford? Having had the privilege of producing her last four pictures and starting on her fifth, I can assure you that the only people in America who like Miss Crawford are. the moviegoers . . . Since when is "sophisticated fortyishness" not attractive? I firmly believe that this country is growing up, and in so doing can have other tastes than dewy-eyed youngsters on their screens . . . Miss Crawford's legions of followers are larger today than at any previous time, while her career has never been...
Despite the charms of Elizabeth Taylor, the only stars I would go out on a rainy night to see are Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Clark Gable...
Over the Top. The trouble is: sex appeal has a way of being repealed by the passing years. Joan Crawford, for instance, who is reportedly 41, has a gem-hard glamour that has worn pretty well for 20 years; now her line is a sophisticated fortyishness, and the public is not clamoring to buy.* Nor is the well-preserved charm of Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Marlene Dietrich causing the box-office stampedes that it could set off ten, or even five years...
Stock Charges? To Du Pont's President Crawford H. Greenewalt, a son-in-law of Irénée du Pont, the charge of "bigness," and that alone, seemed to be the nub of the complaint. Snapped he: "Since these relationships [between Du Pont and the other companies] have been a matter of public information for many years, the motive for this suit must arise out of a determination ... to attack bigness in business as such." The New York Herald Tribune agreed. It gave the back of its hand to Tom Clark for "Pecksniffian" charges, and said: "Mere...
...most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that its parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that made him a longtime fixture atop the annual...