Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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Oddly enough, it was royalty that first opened the doors of Pickfair to Joan. When Lord Louis Mountbatten and his Lady, first cousins to the Royal House of Windsor, made their first visit to Holly wood, they stayed at Pickfair and at that time Doug, Jr. and Joan were in the doghouse. Joan was a daughter-in-law of our Hollywood Royal House, but she'd never been inside it. She'd never been invited. The Hey-Hey girl and flaming Charleston champ that Joan was then, the girl-abouttown gone Hollywood, the ex-chorine turned movie star, was too much for the dignity of Pickfair to swallow. At that awkward moment came a royal command which Doug and Mary could not refuse. The Mountbattens wished very much to meet their glamorous daughter-in-law, Miss Joan Crawford, whose fame had spread to the British Isles as well as to the rest of the world, despite Doug's and Mary's frowns. So the invitation, long delayed, arrived and Joan almost swooned with excitement. As usual, she made the visit a production. She had a special gown of white satin whipped up with a long train — she was going to meet royalty, wasn't she? She had a court coiffure and all the jewels she could muster. She drove up to Pickfair in style and tried to look regal and ladylike as she tripped into the room, although she was nervous as a witch. But alas — luck was against Crawford. As she glided up to the Mountbattens to make her curtsey, a servant happened to step on the train, just on the edge — but it was enough. "R-r-r-i-p!" Off it came, down it fell, and you could cut the silence with a knife. Joan gave one dismayed look, gasped, colored, turned — and fled. I've always felt sorry for Joan Crawford. I know it's tough to feel sorry for anyone who has made as much money as Joan has, or basked in the spotlight of fame for so long. Joan has had almost every worldly thing you can get out of Hollywood. But she has never been satisfied with herself. She has always wanted to be somebody different than Lucille LeSeur. I've seen Joan's various personalities come and go, but the Joan Crawford I liked best — and I don't think I was alone, because that's the Joan who leaped to stardom — -was the unvarnished Crawford of "Our Dancing Daughters" — the wild, unpredictable, lifeloving, hell-raising Crawford with the flaming spirit and the big, soft, straightshooting heart. jivin* foait . . . That was the Joan who kept a special room in her house for all the cups she won dancing the Charleston at the Coconut Grove and the old Montmartre Cafe. The Joan who had one of the most beautiful paintings of herself, au naturel (but for a string of pearls) hung in her room. Both the cups and the portraits are carefully stowed away in the basement now. 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