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Possessed (Warner) gets off to an exciting start with some suspenseful shots of a dazed derelict (Joan Crawford) wandering the streets of a great city at dawn, in search of a man named David. When she collapses, Miss Crawford is taken to a psychopathic ward. By the time the psychiatrist's drugs loosen her locked tongue enough to tell her story, Joan's desperate beauty and her fine, florid movie personality have aroused an intensity of interest which only a top grade picture could satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...film is also uncommonly well acted. Van Heflin puts a lot of bite into his work; Newcomer Geraldine Brooks has looks, talent and vitality. Miss Crawford, though she is not quite up to her hardest scenes, is generally excellent, performing with the passion and intelligence of an actress who is not content with just one Oscar. In fact, the weaknesses in this unusual movie do not greatly matter beside the fact that a lot of people who have a lot to give are giving it all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...long as foolish people with pains have hopes of feeling better, quacks and charlatans will flourish. Last week Associate Commissioner Charles W. Crawford described some of the cure-alls that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has found on the U.S. market in the past year. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cure-Alls | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Statements introduced by the state as coming from Walter T. Crawford and Henry Vernon Culbertson, other defendants, also said Hurd shot the Negro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defendants Name Slayer of Negro In South Carolina Shotgun Killing; Senate Votes Full Foreign Relief | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

Some sort of sign of stability was recorded, however, in the announcement that for the third year in the row, Joan Crawford had been awarded the Poon's humh-in-nose accolade as the "Actress with the Most Toes in the Grave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibismen Meet Match in Yale Record; Phony Newsweek Hits Stands Early | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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