My nan and I are driving ourselves nuts trying to remember a film. I have a feeling it was a smash back in the day because we’re pretty sure it starred Joan Crawford. Anyway, the key scene we both remember is Joanie finding something in her teenage daughter’s bed like a ring or cufflinks which in the plot indicated her man had cheated on her. Nan also remembers the daughter being deaf. I thought it must be “Mildred Pierce” but it’s not. Help!
That definitely sounds like it! I think I’d mixed up little bits of ‘Mildred Pierce’ in my memory after all but this has to be it. Thanks! 
My favorite Joan Crawford film is a western, Johnny Guitar. Her costar Mercedes McCambridge is fantastic. There aren’t many actresses that could share a screen with Crawford and not get blown away.
I love that film! It was so cool with all the gender role reversals, focussing on two women fighting over territory for once (and Stirling Hayden). And yeah, Mercedes McCambridge was such a wonderful screen presence. Gorgeous, vibrant cinematography too. “Mildred Pierce” is probably my favourite. It plays so shamelessly on the emotions of the viewer, getting us to hate that daughter so much!
I can’t watch Crawford after, like, 1935. She’s too much of a self-caricature.
Before that, however, she was sexy as hell, and could act too.
First time I ever got one in first.
Your “nan”? Is that grandmother?
I loved the “extra touch” at the end of Joan’s 1964 movie Straight-Jacket: The headless Columbia Lady
Yup.
My favorite Crawford movie is Woman on the Beach. She was actually vulnerable in that one, and very sexy.
I would have loved being on the set of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Did Davis and Crawford do any other films together?
I think Joan Crawford did a couple of days filming on Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte before quitting because she and Bette Davis and Agnes Moorehead didn’t get along.
If you like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, I’d definitely see Charlotte and maybe Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
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