Joan Crawford: A Woman Possessed | Alicia Malone | TIFF 2018

From Joan Crawford's early days as a flapper through to the Grand Guignol nightmare of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Author and Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone examines the cinema of the fearsomely determined Golden Age superstar.

Featuring excerpts from
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) – dir. Harry Edwards
The Unknown (1927) – dir. Tod Browning
The Circle (1925) – dir. Frank Borzage
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) – dir. Harry Beaumont
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) – dir. Bonnie Jordan
Laughing Sinners (1931) – dir. Harry Beaumont
Grand Hotel (1932) – dir. Edmund Goulding
The Shining Hour (1938) – dir. Frank Borzage
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) – dir. Reinhold Schünzel
The Women (1939) – dir. George Cukor
Mildred Pierce (1945) – dir. Michael Curtiz
Humoresque (1946) – dir. Jean Negulesco
Possessed (1947) – dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Sudden Fear (1952) – dir. David Miller
Autumn Leaves (1956) – dir. Robert Aldrich
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) – dir. Robert Aldrich
Trog (1970) – dir. Freddie Francis
Westpoint (1927) – dir. Edward Sedgwick

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