Years ago I saw a bit from an old movie and now I’d like to watch the whole thing. The trouble is, I can’t remember the name of it, nor does searching Joan Crawford movies on IMDB help me.
Can anyone name the movie from my description of the scene? Joan Crawford lives in a poorish flat with her older mom, dad and brother. Dad is unemployed. Joan and mom have fixed dinner, and dad and brother have eaten and are stretched out in the living room. Mom is exhausted but is still cleaning up the aftermath of dinner, and she tells Joan, “Get out of this and go find your own life or you’ll be stuck doing this forever.” Joan takes her at her word and moves out and finds a job.
Ring a bell with anyone? If only Eve were here.
::Checking IMDB::
Yes! Thank you! You’re a sharp one. That took all of what, eight minutes?
I don’t know why I couldn’t turn it up on my own.
I have a reason for wanting to watch this. My mom moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles when she was twenty-five years old, to live on her own. Now my mom was a rather timid and unadventurous person, so this always puzzled me. I asked her about it once, and she unwillingly said “If I had stayed at home, I’d have become the permanent unpaid servant of my dad and three brothers.” It only occurred to me recently that this movie came out only a year or so before my mother’s move. I wonder if she saw it and it influenced her decision. She was a big moviegoer, so possibly so.
Thanks, that’s a great story. Good for your mother for getting out from under.