#joan-crawford

#joan-crawford

I also consider her the greatest movie actress from the thirties to the fifties, if only for a handful of performances-indeed, for a handful of scenes. She was in few great films and not even many good ones, but her acting, at its peak, is different in kind from that of her similarly celebrated peers. Displaying both the most extreme artifice in self-presentation and the most authentic emotion in performance, she exemplifies Hollywood's paradoxes in concentrated form.