Hi Stuart!

I have to agree with Paul Merton. Joan’s heart is just not in the picture!

Dear Moira, Thank you for introducing one of my personal favorite Crawford films, Rain. It was beautifully shot with intense acting by Joan and Walter Huston. Critics panned the film in 1932, but with time, I believe the film has grown in acceptance as a solid Crawford performance. To put the film i...

Dear Ann,

My pleasure! Thank you for the lead on the Louise Brooks biography. I will definitely check it out.

I wholeheartedly agree that Ms. Brooks perceived Joan’s childhood demons expressed in her roles.

Thanks again!

Good evening Lynn, Thank you again for this wonderful week and all of the interesting questions at The Oasis! I need to read Vance’s biography, as Doug Fairbanks, Sr.’s life is full of intrigue and anything that gives me more insight into my grandmother’s life the better. I am especially interested ...

Dear Larry, Thank you for the amazing follow-up! After reading your amazing posts #1 and #2, I need to ask how you had these incredible Hollywood experiences! Bill & Edit Goetz are legendary. As you know from personal experience, they hosted parties and dinners and knew the who’s who of Hollywoo...

Dear Birdy, Questions or no, thanks for the comments. My wife and I always say that we were born at the wrong time. We love films from the 30’s and 40’s and find a lot of today’s films lacking the machine-gun fast dialogue of films like The Women. Joan was definitely the fulcrum between Montgomery a...

Dear Joe, Thank you for the question on one interesting lady, Mercedes McCambridge. Joan biographer Bob Thomas has a good, in-depth take on what happened on the Johnny Guitar set. See pages 187 through 191 in Joan Crawford, a Biography. Simply put, it is most likely both women were jealous of each o...

Good evening Christy!

Thanks for the note. It has been enjoyable and I look forward to the remaining few days with The Oasis.

Greetings Stuart! Thank you for the questions and keen observations. Joan called Tramp, Tramp, Tramp a wistful comedy that belonged entirely to Harry Langdon. This was Langdon’s first feature film. Joan was loaned out to First National for Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, only one of three times she was loaned ...

Dear Ann Harding, It is my pleasure to be here at The Oasis! My grandmother’s films helmed by Frank Borzage are all very enjoyable. Strange Cargo is a very interesting film, especially for its time. Johnny Guitar is one of my secret favorites. I have seen many of Joan’s early films, including Tramp,...

Hi Chris, That is an easy question. Simply put, no. Well, one thing. Her name. “Sounds like crawfish!” She loved her fans, the lifestyle afforded by her career, her many love affairs with the likes of Clark Gable (among many others) and the family she could have never had otherwise. She was The Ulti...

Good evening Alison, Thank you for the questions and welcome! I agree with your comment regarding Joan’s biographers. Until Charlotte Chandler’s book two years ago, some of Joan’s biographers appeared to have at least a slight problem with her. I just don’t know how to describe it. The worst was Dav...

Hi Christy! Oh, the “The Secret Storm” scandal! One of the high points of the Joan vs. Christina struggle. Christina was cast in 1968 as a supporting character on the CBS soap opera “The Secret Storm” but took ill. Joan was asked to replace Christina during her illness. Mind you, Christina’s charact...

Good evening Moira, To put it mildly, Joan had a troublesome upbringing. She is quoted as saying she had an awful childhood, with her mother “marrying the wrong kind of men and moving.” Joan’s biological father, Thomas LeSueur, left before Joan was born and only one of Anna Bell’s husbands, Henry Ca...

Good evening Marco, Thanks for providing the new Mildred Pierce trailer. The film looks and feels like a completely new take on the book. There is nothing that speaks to me as "Joan Crawford" here. It should be an interesting mini-series, as it looks much grittier, complex and involved tha...