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@filmmementos Always great in shades!

Happy Joan Crawford Day! Here are some of my favorite Joan Crawford photos A thread

@jmlx_john2 Very nice!

Born 23 March 1906, at only 5’3”, she became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. And she frequently credited her relationships with gay men for making her so. Her support for those relationships stemmed from her own early experience of being "denigrated and despised". Fiercely loyal, a disparaging remark about “homosexuals” would get you shown to the door. And uncommonly devoted, during an era when Hollywood was deeply intolerant, she often protected her gay friends’ privacy and supported them both financially and emotionally. There was Adrian, the costume designer, who taught her style. Cukor, the director, who taught her acting. Ramon Novarro, the star, who took a young ingenue under his wing at the start of her career and who she repaid in kind, decades later, when alcohol and erratic behavior had ended his. Cesar Romero, her escort and dancing partner between husbands. And Billy Haines, her lifelong best friend. When he was blacklisted by MGM in 1933 for refusing to end his relationship with his partner Jimmie Shields, she stood by him and helped him transition into a career as a top interior designer, becoming the first in line to hire him to decorate her homes. And finally, there was Stanwyck, with whom she shared a remarkably deep and enduring friendship that spanned over 50 years, from the 1920s until her death in 1977. Like many of her ardent gay fans, she had escaped a hostile, unforgiving environment to reinvent herself and become who she was always meant to be. Lucille LeSueur. Billie Cassin. Joan Crawford. Legend. [click to play]

@vibeology89620 @lizajudyfan 💯

@lizajudyfan We need a goddamn 4k box set of EVERY Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli & Corey Haim in “A Time to Live” (TV 1985), for which Liza won the Golden Globe & Corey, the Young Artist Award

#JoanCrawford from @criterionchannel.bsky.social ✨ A shimmering moment of beauty, courtesy of birthday star Joan Crawford, photographed by George Hurrell. ✨

Remem #JoanCrawford on her 120th birthday❤️Won an Oscar for MILDRED PIERCE, Nom for SUDDEN FEAR & POSSESSED. In many great films-JOHNNY GUITAR, THE DAMNED DON’T CRY, THE WOMEN, HUMORESQUE, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? Wonder what Joan & Bette were laughing about ☺️#TCMParty

Thank you! Here is Round 1 of the #1930sLeadActor Tournament in what I would call a “spirited competition”. 🥰 #TCMParty #OldHollywood

@danitasteinberg @FemaleCritics @RevueCinema Funny Girl is a film that has to be seen on the big screen at least once..

FUNNY GIRL is screening at the @RevueCinema on Mother’s Day, May 10 🥰

@iShowTunes ❤️

Happy #NationalPuppyDay, Toto !!! 🐶 #WizardOfOz #JudyGarland #PuppyDay #Toto #Terry

I just learned #ValeriePerrine passed away. Very sad. #RIP Valerie 1943-1926

@Sanfranpixie I agree and just add one more—cleaner air, ventilation, etc. in health care settings.

If there is one systemic change I would like to see in the US, it would be the widespread introduction of N95/KN95 respirators for healthcare staff and messaging to the public that N95/KN95 respirators are far superior to 'baggy blues'.

@OldHollywoodLov Wow!

Carole Lombard, 1925 #TCMParty 📸 Albert Witzel

@JoePlace72173 Mine’s “In A Lonely Place” but “Sunset Blvd” is also a masterpiece!

My all time favorite movie is Sunset Boulevard.

@Sanfranpixie Same!

@GingerGray Love her.

Happy birthday #IsabelleHuppert❤️Most nom. Actress-Cesar Awards, won 2 Cannes Awards, nom for an Oscar. Her Films include COUP DE TORCHON, 8 WOMEN, LA CEREMONIE, ELLE, WHITE MATERIAL, THINGS TO COME, STORY OF WOMEN. #TCMParty #BOTD In Diane Kurys’ film ENTRE NOUS with Miou-Miou

#NoirAlley is back! So I’m here for #WhoKilledTeddyBear, even tho I’ve seen it fairly recently. I think there is more than one version…a truly bizarre film and I assume a cult classic?#TCMParty

@iShowTunes The 🐐‼️

#JudyGarland/#ICouldGoOnSinging/1963 youtube.com/watch?v=_F2FA-…

@DADiClementi 🥲🥲

100th Anniversary of my mama’s birth and cleaning out my parent’s house. Happy 100th mama. 💗

#1930sLeadActor Tournament Bracket is set for voting Sunday. #TCM #TCMParty

I’m going with THE BLUE DAHLIA as my favorite of these 3 films with #VeronicaLake . #WomenInNoir #WomensHistoryMonth #TCMParty

Don’t know if I voted in time for #1930sLeadActors Tournament…. Fred Astaire William Powell Cary Grant Clark Gable Leslie Howard #TCMParty

@DADiClementi 😉🥂

@GingerGray I was told I was taking too much from my parents’ house. But these may have jumped into one of the boxes of their own accord anyway. Not saying they did. Just saying they might have.😏

I’m giving them up. 😭😭😭