If anyone talks about Betty Davis, it must be inseparable from the name of a woman, her name is Joan Crawford.
She once told reporters: "If Joan goes to heaven after she dies, I will go to hell." ”
If joan Crawford is spoken of, then someone must have said that she abused children, and her adopted daughter wrote a book called "Dear Mommy", showing the neurotic and selfish mother to the world.
Frank Perry made the book the film of the same name, which everyone called a horror movie, and the vicious woman was called "Joan Crawford", and they said "Joan Crawford is really a crazy woman in a beautiful guise" and "she is a hollywood hooligan".
How did Joan Crawford get so "bad" that people gritted their teeth when they mentioned her?
The "native family" is a shackle that everyone can't escape, and Joan's native family is terrible.
After filming "The Blue Girl", Betty asked her "sworn enemy": "Why do you always fight with me?" Joan slowly spat out a puff of smoke, and said lonely and sarcastically, "You know what? I lost my virginity at the age of 11. ”
Her parents divorced before Joan was born, and she and her brother followed her mother, but her mother only gave birth and did not raise children, and only lingered in the pile of men.
Her mother's second husband, Henry Carson, was very kind to her, and Joan was grateful to him, but at the same time she hated her mother, and at the age of 11, she volunteered to give her life.
When she was 12 years old, her mother felt that Joan was in the way, so she sent her to the convent, she lived in school like a walking dead, she had to do dirty work, and it was common to be beaten and scolded, but she said: The nun is very fierce, but she is very good compared to my mother.
Exhausted by ridicule and insults, Joan secretly swore that no matter what method, no matter what the price, she must get out of here, better than they are.
At the age of 21, Joan went to Hollywood alone, and after successfully signing a contract, she had her first chance to perform in "Pretty Lady", although she was only a small supporting role in dance.
Betty said one of the reasons she hated Joan: "I hate Joan, she slept with every man at MGM. ”
Joan seems to be very good at this, and of course she has such capital: exquisite looks and beautiful figures.
It is said that she was able to enter the entertainment industry because she gave a hug to MGM executives and had the opportunity to act. After entering MGM, she did not refuse to come to the staff.
The original protagonist of "Our Dancing Girls" was not actually Joan, but another actress, but Joan wanted the role too much, she tried her best to meet with the producers and executives, and finally snatched this place, the show was broadcast to rave reviews, and Joan Crawford entered the ranks of Hollywood's A-list actresses.
The most widely circulated is a "deal" between her and the film industry giant Meyer.
Joan took a fancy to a house, but not as much money, so she ran to Meyer's office, and half an hour later, she walked out of the office with a check for $18,000.
Everybody knows it.
Joan is still a semi-open bisexual, and she once told the media: "I like Garbo very much, I want to become gay." ”
She used the stupidest and fastest way, like her mother, with the help of men's power, to make herself a big star.
Joan caught up with the good timing, and the appearance of sound movies made her feel good in the entertainment industry.
Her first sound film, Wild and Difficult to Tame, grossed well, and the 1932 "Grand Hotel," which brought together all of MGM's superstars at the time, made Crawford a hot superstar.
But after entering the 1940s, Crawford realized that staying at MGM would only repeat herself, so she came to Warner Pictures after the contract ended, and it turned out that her decision was correct.
In "The Devil of the Sea", she played a housewife to the mall strong woman into three points, and her outstanding performance won the Oscar for best actress, and the next "Cocooning Yourself" received an Oscar nomination for best actress; "Fright" was her third Oscar nomination.
Baidu Encyclopedia said of her:
Joan Crawford is no ordinary actress, to be precise, she is a movie superstar. She rarely appears in top films, and her films are rarely called "outstanding", regardless of the material, but she is the most successful actress in film history and the longest actress in her acting career. She was born charming, a person on top of people, and her star temperament is simply innate. Everything about her, from her history of going from nothing to being worthy, and all her tireless efforts to be under the flash, made her the best material for Hollywood's DreamWorks.
The material also includes her marital history, which she married 5 times.
The second segment is with actor Douglas van Punk.
Douglas van Punk's family is a top magnate, and some people even say that his father, Douglas Sr., can be compared with celebrities such as Edison and George Bernard Shaw.
In the outset, Douglas is a nobleman, but in the entertainment industry, Joan is his predecessor, and the two gradually start thinking about it.
The news of the engagement of the two made the man's family very dissatisfied, and Douglas's stepmother Mary disliked Joan very much; her private life was a mess and her reputation was not very good, which was completely unworthy of their family.
They still insisted on getting married, but it wasn't long before the two divorced because of many reasons of personality incompatibility.
Although every time she divorced, Joan said that she would no longer believe in love and would never get married again, it turned out that she was really just talking.
Her last marriage, the fifth, was with Steele, the president of Pepsi. The two split up and ended with Steele's death.
Steele always said of her relationship with Betty: "You have so much in common, and no one on Earth is as similar as you are." ”
Joan said, "I thought about reconciling with her, when she had just won an Oscar, and I sent me a creed and a bouquet, but she never responded. I confess that I admire Betty's talent and acting skills, and I just want to be respected. ”
All she wants is "respect", even though she has everything, money, fame and home, but she seems to have nothing.
She always said to her adopted daughter: I am not happy, I am miserable, I am lonely.
The "original family" is a sea, Joan can't swim and no one wants to teach her to swim, she can only struggle and drown in the water, and desperately try to catch something.
She had everything, but she hadn't found herself yet.
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