A Portrait Of Joan: The Autobiography Of Joan Crawford

By Joan Crawford

Book Overview

""A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford"" is a memoir written by the legendary Hollywood actress Joan Crawford. In this book, Crawford recounts her life story, from her humble... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1258172380
• ISBN13: 9781258172381
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fairytale life of Joan Crawford

This 2017 book is totally revisionist history. Whoever wrote it sanitized the 1962 version beyond belief. They made Joan Crawford sound like Little Miss Sunshine, spreading love and joy all around while having bouquets of flowers strewn at her feet her whole life. According to Joan, she was friends with everyone she ever met, including all of MGM’s stable of stars. She also never had a disagreement or any conflict with anyone. Does that sound like Joan Crawford to you? The ongoing feud with Norma Shearer comes to mind. And then, of course, there was her rival Bette Davis. There is no mention of Joan ever drinking alcohol, even though she was an alcoholic. By the end of this book, she accomplished everything on her own, short of being canonized a saint by the pope. What we don’t know is if she had remorse after writing the 1962 version and then made the cleansing updates herself before her death. If so, this act was Oscar-worthy.