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Not the girl next door : Joan Crawford : a personal biography

Not the girl next door : Joan Crawford : a personal biography

Chandler, Charlotte.
Book 2008

Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. As a result, this biography is a brand-new look at one of Hollywood's most acclaimed stars. Although her adopted daughter Christina would publish the scathing memoir Mommie Dearest after Crawford's death, Chandler offers a contrasting portrait, drawing in part on reminiscences of younger d...

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Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977
Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography
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ISBN:
9781416547518
1416547517
Description:
xi, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
Notes:
Includes index
Filmography: pages 295-303
Contents:
Dancing daughter (1908-1924)
Starlet by starlight (1925-1926)
Douglas and Pickfair (1927-1929)
M-G-M star (1930-1933)
M-G-M superstar (1934-1944)
The early Warner years (1945-1948)
The later Warner years (1949-1951)
The Pepsi generation (1952-1960)
Joan alone (1961-1970)
Goodbye, world (1971-1977)
"Mommie wasn't a movie star in our house" a postscript
LCCN:
2007034484
Control Number:
158703
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