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Joan Crawford: Imperial House
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Synopsis: Joan Crawford makes her TV sitcom debut in this dancin'-and-singin' half hour extravaganze, which ... features former Lucy Show regular Vivian Vance). When their car breaks down near Joan's house, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Vivian enter the place to use the phone. They are surprised to find theRead More
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The docu spends plenty of time on Crawford's apprenticeship in silents. Her early (and late) conflicts with L.B. Mayer are scrupulously recorded (including the down payment he gave her to buy her first house -- on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills). Speaking of Mayer, it's especially poignant when the actress finally leaves MGM in the mid-1940s, forced to reconstruct her career at a relatively late date.
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In September 1973, Crawford moved from apartment 22-G to the smaller apartment 22-H in the Imperial House. Her last public appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her old friend Rosalind Russell at New York's Rainbow Room. Russell was battling breast cancer at the time and died two years later in 1976. On May 8, 1977, Crawford gave away her beloved Shih Tzu "Princess Lotus Blossom," which signaled to her close friends that the end was near.
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