Joan Crawford News

Dear Mr. LaSalle: I'm sure you've had many comments on this but the photo on Page 26 is of Joan Crawford, not Norma Shearer.

As another Halloween arrives, I've been thinking about what makes a good horror story, thanks to the arrival of eight William Castle films on DVD.

You gotta have a gimmick. So said William Castle, whose horror films sometimes took a backseat to stunts, such as a free insurance policy in case you died of fright while watching the movie, or taking a poll at the climax to find out if you wanted the villain to die .

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford deserve a place in camp heaven for their parts in this excruciating psychological horror flick from 1962, about a former child star and her paralytic former movie-star sister .

It's hard to feel upbeat when everyone around you is sick, out of work, miserable, complaining about something, and/or battling addiction, eviction and a deadbeat ex.

Duration: 1:51:02 TVPG Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her turn in the title role as a housewife who dotes on her daughters, after being ditched by hubby Bert , who found affection from Maggie Binderhof .

Today We Live is a weird blend of famous talents, most of them miscast, contributing to an MGM adaptation of an original story by William Faulkner, a favorite associate of producer-director Howard Hawks.

The Star Tribune's Taste section celebrates its 40th birthday with a screening of the decadently delicious "Mildred Pierce." Joan Crawford won her Oscar in this 1945 women's picture/film noir/murder mystery as a lower-class divorcee making it on her own.

I think I must have fallen in love with shoulder pads when I saw Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.

Is Kate Winslet really the one for this weepie re-make? Is she hard enough?: Kate Winslet Normally my heart sinks when I hear that someone is remaking a movie classic: why try to improve on something that is perfectly good already? But I'm intrigued to learn that HBO is about to produce a new mini-series version of Michael Curtiz's terrific old ...

In honor of Fashion Week in New York, which starts Sept. 10, Turner Classic Movies has released a list of the network's favorite fashion trendsetting films.

It can't possibly have escaped your notice that shoulder pads are, once more, bolstering the silhouette of style's most sought-after garments this season.

1.6 "Babylon" Don Draper relaxes in bed with his wife's book "The Best of Everything". She joins him.

What do Dustin Hoffman, Joan Crawford and George Peppard have in common? Blame it on Hollywood's ever-increasing fear of risk-taking, but one of each's signature roles is being recast in the latest slew of movie and TV remakes.

What do Dustin Hoffman, Joan Crawford and George Peppard have in common? Blame it on Hollywood's ever-increasing fear of risk-taking, but one of each's signature roles is being recast in the latest slew of movie and TV remakes.

Mildred Pierce is one of my favorite Joan Crawford movies because the movie is a good drama and mystery.A It's a story about survival with lots of curves.A The movie is based on a book of the same title,A A butA was changed significantly in adaptation for film.A Michael Curtis,A wonderfulA and versatile, directed this film for Warner Bros.A The ...

Sixteen years after she appeared, as a teenager, in such programmes as Casualty and Family Matters, Kate Winslet is being lined up to return to the small screen.

OSCAR winner Kate Winslet is attached to " Mildred Pierce ," a miniseries adaptation based on the James M. Cain novel that won Joan Crawford a 1945 Oscar.

According to the LA Times , Kate Winslet has taken on the lead role in the remake of Mildred Pierce , a film most remembered for starring Joan Crawford and those infamous eyebrows.

I had to laugh when LOVE ON THE RUN started with an establishing shot of London...by coincidence, six of the last eight films I've watched have been set in London.