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Ruth Harriet Louise
Joan Crawford has been a lone-wolf with nothing to help her bat pluck, hard work, and an ambition that broke down every door that was slammed in her face. Genuine success and development such as hers come from seizing and even making opportunity ; and from hard work and suffering.
SCREENLAND
By
James Oppenheim
HOW comes it that the young woman who once said that she used men as stepping stones to success — a hard-boiled statement — now appears in the realms of sweetness and light? Cynics might say, and have said, in print, that Joan Crawford, having married into the Royal House of Hollywood, has assumed the role of a Princess and a Pickfair; that it is something like a million dollars left by a rich uncle to a wage-slave who must immediately change his standards of living, his circle of acquaintances, his environment, and put on the dog.
Screen land has sent a questionnaire to Miss Crawford and received a full answer. Cynics, again might say that the answer needn't be taken too seriously; and indeed, few of us, even if we are as honest as we can be, know much about ourselves. Most people don't even know what they look like physically. They gaze into the mirror and see themselves either a bit debased or a bit glorified, and not at all the way 'others see them.' When a woman feels blue she thinks, 'I look a fright;' and when exultant, 'Wow! I guess I'm an eyeful!' Much depends on the mood and the temperament.
Joan Crawford, as we know, has reason to be proud of herself. In typical American fashion, the Ford-Edison-Lincoln way, she has been a lone-wolf with nothing to help her but pluck, hard work, and an ambition that broke down every door that was slammed in her face. She was poor and a nobody; she is today one of the remarkable actresses of the screen, a star among the top-notchers.
Anyone who has watched her has seen a steady deepening of character and power. The somewhat hard whirligig and chorine has changed from picture to picture, revealing ever a new fire in her art, a more genuine emotion, a truer character. So we may dismiss the cynic's attitude at once. All the help in the world, all the 'stepping stones,' won't change a sow's ear into a silk purse. Genuine success and development such as hers come mainly from seizing, and even making opportunity; and from hard work and a great deal of suffering.
Her character appears in her answers to the questionnaire, but whether her self-knowledge is deep I do not know. For she sets herself down as more of an introvert (dreamer and in-dwelling type) than an extravert (doer.) She gives herself 34 points as an in