89: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and Barbara Payton

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90: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: The Middle Years (Mildred Pierce to Johnny Guitar)

Joan Crawford struggled through what she called her “middle years,” the period during her 40s before she remade herself from aging, slumping MGM deadweight into a fleet, journeywoman powerhouse who starred in some of the most interesting films about adult womanhood of the 1940s a ...  Show more

 . 52min 19sec
91: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Bette Davis, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?," and Crawford’s last years

Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has done more to define later generation’s ideas about who Crawford was than perhaps any other movie that she was actually in. Unfortunately, most of those ideas center around Crawford’s supposed feud with co-star Bette Davis, whi ...  Show more

 . 46min 50sec

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