The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The New Movie Magazine Lucille, Joan and Mrs. Doug (Continued from page 52) rushed along at so swift a pace — she is still in her early twenties — that those deeper feelings which are predicated upon thought have not yet come her way, to any extent. The first of them was her love for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Young Doug, as he is affectionately known in Hollywood. Up to the time that they met, Joan had been a wild young thing — wild chiefly because she was young and because, I am sure, she was lonely. Many stories have been written about the loneliness of New York, the terrible homesickness of girls who go there to conquer the greatest of America's cities. Some day one will be written about the loneliness that can be in Hollywood. Especially for young girls who come West without any connections, without any friends. For Hollywood is a place made up of many small cliques and while it is essentially warm-hearted, it is also careless, and often too busy to notice newcomers. Doors aren't actually closed against the stranger within our gates. But they just never think to open them. ALSO Joan labored under the handicap of being a very dangerous-looking young person. In fact, she looked seductive and naughty and as though wrecking homes might be her favorite indoor sport. As far as I know she never did wreck any homes, and her character doesn't correspond with her appearance. But in the beginning she was naturally judged by her appearance and the women didn't rush out to take her to their bosoms as they might have done had she looked like Mary Brian or Janet Gaynor. You know how women are. So Joan, who was young and eager for life and not at all anxious to spend her time sitting alone in a hotel room, fell back upon men for companionship and upon night clubs and cafes for her social pleasures. During those first years you nearly always saw Joan, strikingly beautiful, stunningly and somewhat bizarrely gowned, if you happened into the Biltmore on a Saturday night, or the Ambassador on Friday, or the Montmartre on Wednesday. Sometimes the heir to the Cudahy millions was her escort. Sometimes her leading man, sometimes several handsome college boys. But I remember staring at her one night across the dance floor of the Biltmore and thinking that she didn't look as though she was very happy, or as though she was having such a riotously good time. SEEING her thus, her hair newly dyed red for purposes of the camera, her young face set and her eyes cold, dressed in black with big, black picture hats, it is no wonder that people spoke of Joan Crawford as "wild." Then, too, she had been a chorus girl, and that told against her, broadminded as we are in Hollywood. Then she met and fell in love with Doug. And there happened to her what has happened to women since the beginning of time. 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