Joan Crawford: Always the Star

Name: Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1996-09-30
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Diane Baker, Ben Cooper, Joan Crawford

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19961996
50m

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6.2/10

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This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made ove... Read allThis glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger... Read allThis glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endur... Read all

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6.2/10

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- Gene Feldman
- Suzette Winter
- Gene Feldman
- Suzette Winter
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- Diane Baker
- Ben Cooper
- Joan Crawford(archive footage)

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Always The Star.... And More

If you are secretly hoping that this bio-documentary (showcasing actress, Joan Crawford) will, indeed, reaffirm this woman's brutally notorious reputation as being "Mommie Dearest" (personified) - Then - I'm sorry, folks - You are in for a major let-down here.

'Cause - On the contrary - This highly-polished, well-researched presentation (from 1996) graciously bestows upon Crawford the "Good Mother/Actress/Citizen" Award of Approval.

Covering Joan's 50-year career as one of Hollywood's most enduring actresses of the 1940s & 50s - "Always The Star" pays respectful homage to Crawford whose tenacity, ambition, and determination firmly cemented her status as being one of Tinseltown's most beloved and admired stars of yesteryear.

Through stills, archival footage, and interviews with those who had worked around her - This celebrity-documentary (of only 54 minutes) reveals Crawford as being the consummate actress who reigned supreme during Hollywood's heyday.

*Note* - In 1977 - Joan Crawford (72 a the time) died of heart failure.

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