Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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Joan and Doug Fairbanks Jr., her first husband, stroll in Paris with wealthy race-horse owner Jefferson Davis Cohn soon after their marriage in 1929. She felt out of place in Doug's circle of international sophisticates. At a party in 1933, Franchot Tone looks fondly at Joan, his bride-to-be. (With them are actress Elizabeth Allen and designer Adrian.) Joan still "worships" Tone's intellectuality. Four men, three of them her husbands, played major roles in Joan Crawford's life. They joan Crawford's other life -mrtt ■ She was very young, and very shy, and her eyes told you how desperately she needed to be liked. As she entered the powder room at the highschool dance, there was a sudden silence among the girls — the sort of silence that meant she was the one they'd been saying nasty things about. She forced a weak smile. "Hello, Mary . . . Alice . . . Ruth." There was a cold murmur of greeting. Miserably she hung her worn cloth coat on the rack — among the sleek furs and velvets. As she turned to the mirror to straighten her hair, she realized now how foolish had been her frantic hope that, somehow, her dress would not betray its origin — this creation of shirred taffeta, with artificial rosebuds caught here and there in a frill of silver lace, that had cost $4.95 in Kansas City's* bargain center, Jones Basement. She pushed at her hair hastily, quickly applied lipstick and hurried out. Before the door was closed, she heard behind her the clear voice of a young lady exclaiming, "Well! I wonder what he thinks of that dress!" And there was harsh laughter. ■ That was how Joan Crawford arrived at her first dance. She was the only student in the private co-ed school