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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 233935" data-attributes="member: 7">I&#039;ve been watching Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star, the very good TCM documentary that&#039;s been released as a special feature on the DVD of Mildred Pierce. During Joan&#039;s post-Warner Brothers days, she reinvented herself yet again. She was graciously invited back to MGM to star in the 1953 musical drama Torch Song, which she had been led to believe was going to be a &quot;major&quot; picture. Of course, it scatted over to B-movie territory, was derided by critics, flopped at the box office, but yet remains a cult favorite among Crawford&#039;s fans for its total outrageousness. Anyway, the point I&#039;m getting is Joan&#039;s &quot;new look&quot; she came up with (I&#039;m guessing) to distant herself from Warner Brothers. Her hair was bobbed and lightened giving her an appearance the aforementioned documentary calls &quot;terrifying&quot;. A theory given is Joan was creating a &quot;warrior&quot; exterior with a &quot;nobody can touch me&quot; attitude. Her daughter Christina said her adopted mother&#039;s developed a toughness that never left. Her face did change sometime in the early 1950s. She looked tougher, meaner, and not nearly as attractive as she had been before. Your thoughts? [ATTACH=full]21865[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]21866[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 233935, member: 7"] [FONT=arial]I've been watching [I]Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star[/I], the very good TCM documentary that's been released as a special feature on the DVD of [I]Mildred Pierce[/I]. During Joan's post-Warner Brothers days, she reinvented herself yet again. She was graciously invited back to MGM to star in the 1953 musical drama [I]Torch Song[/I], which she had been led to believe was going to be a "major" picture. Of course, it scatted over to B-movie territory, was derided by critics, flopped at the box office, but yet remains a cult favorite among Crawford's fans for its total outrageousness. Anyway, the point I'm getting is Joan's "new look" she came up with (I'm guessing) to distant herself from Warner Brothers. Her hair was bobbed and lightened giving her an appearance the aforementioned documentary calls "terrifying". A theory given is Joan was creating a "warrior" exterior with a "nobody can touch me" attitude. Her daughter Christina said her adopted mother's developed a toughness that never left. Her face did change sometime in the early 1950s. She looked tougher, meaner, and not nearly as attractive as she had been before. Your thoughts? [/FONT] [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="327px" alt="1597761700824.png"]21865[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="325px" alt="1597761722091.png"]21866[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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