Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford Review

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Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford ReviewI totally agree with "riverscircus" perfect review. The lady definitely knows her Crawford!
I agree that the photographic elements of this book are absolutely appalling, including the book's cover (I know exactly what website it was snagged from). The photos inside are of ghastly quality, pixilated and blurry. But more important than this, is that most aspects of Crawford's life and career are merely glossed over in a paragraph or two. There simply isn't "enough" in this book. As others have stated, very little is new information in this book, and what IS new, is almost totally irrelevant.
I was wildly excited about this book before it arrived (due to the author's good reputation and because I thought it would bring new insight into the woman known as Joan Crawford), only to discover it was half as long as his book on Marilyn Monroe, who lived half as long as Crawford!
The book reads like thrown-together-facts taken from, at times, dubious sources, and tossed out to the book stores.Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford Overview
The definitive biography of a remarkable woman and true legend of film

Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she may have also been one of the most misunderstood. In this brilliantly researched, thoughtful, and intimate biography, bestselling author Donald Spoto goes beyond the popular caricature-the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, Mommie Dearest-to give us a three-dimensional portrait of the real woman behind the actress, her dazzling career, and her extraordinary life and times.

Based on new archival information and exclusive interviews, Possessed traces Crawford's fifty years of memorable performances in such film classics as Rain, The Women, Mildred Pierce, and Sudden Fear, which are as startling and vivid today as when they were first released. Spoto goes behind the myths to examine the rise and fall of the studio system; Crawford's four marriages; her passionate, thirty-year on-and-off affair with Clark Gable; her friendships and rivalries with other stars; the truth behind the scathing stories in her daughter's memoir; and more.


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