Joan Crawford

swimming. After Joan had beat her Christina was not happy and talked back to her mom. Joan not liking this slapped her and sent her to her room. Another time she felt like her life was going nowhere after she was fired from her acting job. She reacted to this by tearing plants out of the ground at 2 a.m. One more example of this would be when she had an impulsive behavior to yell at her daughter for using…

original Ocean's Eleven for its star power’ and called it the epitome of ‘grand, old Hollywood’. The assessment is accurate not only due to the star power of the cast, which includes two of American cinema most significant actresses, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, but also due to the depiction of the hotel itself. Firstly the film capitalises of the glamour and exoticness of international travel, particularly the sophistication and style of Berlin (the glamour of faraway countries featured in…

Joan and Lena: Similarities Across Ethnic Backgrounds The way an individual identifies themselves is very important for their overall well-being and self-esteem. Life experiences have a major impact on an individual’s sense of identity. These life experiences can either hurt or help their identity, and as a result, shape the person they become. Even though these characters are from different ethnic backgrounds, Lena St. Clair and Joan Foster share similar life experiences: both women use…

illustrated by a scene in which she must change her clothes for practical reasons when fleeing the relentless townsfolk. Rather than doing so in front of the audience and former-lover Johnny Logan (Sterling Hayden), Nicholas Ray deliberately makes Crawford undress off-camera, forcing viewers to instead focus on an inactive…

will be pitching is the sixth sequel to the classic made up disaster movie, Eruption (1971). This followup will be titled, Eruption 1978: Las Vegas (1979) and unfortunately it was pushed back due to budget restraints and problems on set (a drunk Joan Crawford wouldn’t leave her trailer due to her characters fate and accidentally burnt down half the set). The disaster and the location/time frame are all in the title, it literally treats all audience members like their dumbness (finally a movie…

Name Last Name Professor Course Number Date Vampire Aesthetic In her article “Powerful, Beautiful, and Without Regret:” Femininity, Masculinity, and the Vampire Aesthetic,” Joan Forry argues that conventional beliefs of beauty and appearance are at work in the portrayal of vampires. In vampire aesthetic, however, beauty is mostly conceptualized along the constructs of gender and sexuality. If a male vampire is conceptualized as a handsome martyr, the female one is conceptualized as a femme…

“I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser,” Joan Crawford once said (“Top 25 Hairdresser Quotes (of 68)”). Miss Crawford understood that looking beautiful helps with self-esteem, and that is what a hairdresser’s goal is. In order to appreciate a career as a hairstylist, one must first understand the education/training, advancements/salary, and benefits/hazards. To start, in order to become a hairstylist, one must obtain a cosmetology…

“When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself”- Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg was very inspired by filmmaking while he was young. He took this inspiration and made his dream come true. After dropping out of college, he worked as an intern at Universal Studios. Then,…

Most sources say William Wallace was born near Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland (The Famous People) to a small landowner Malcolm Wallace (britannica) and the daughter of Sir Hugh Crawford, Sheriff of Ayr (Sir William Wallace). However, according to Wallace’s seal, a design consisting of unique characteristics about himself most commonly worn on his shield, says that his father’s name was Alan Wallace not Malcolm(The Famous People)…

not talk about Fred's education. [2] In 1933 Fred Astaire was married to Phyllis Livingston Potter. Then a little later then went to Hollywood. [2] He played a part in Flying Down to Rio in 1933. [2] Fred had a small roll in Dancing lady with Joan Crawford in 1933’s. [1] Later in life Fred working in Television. [1] He appeared in several more films like The Gay divorce. [1] Fred signed with a contract with RKO radio pictures and matched up if a another broadway talenter. [1] Fred was 5 9…