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Re: "Starring Joan CRAWFORD as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard"
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2006, 02:51:46 AM »
Quote from: Raineypark on October 12, 2006, 10:36:47 PM
While I agree that Joan Crawford could never have been all the characters that Joan Bennett played so perfectly, I can't agree that she was the most talented actress on the show.  Nancy Barrett gets that accolade, in my opinion....hands down.
You know it! I really started to take note of NB the first time I saw the Adam story, and as the show moved into 1897 she totally blew me away! Some years went by before I was able to see her again as Millicent, and again I was just amazed with her performances. What a great actress!
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Re: "Starring Joan CRAWFORD as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard"
« Reply #16 on: October 13, 2006, 03:15:51 AM »
Quote from: IluvBarnabas on October 13, 2006, 01:01:03 AM
I bet Charity, as [spoiler]possessed by Pansy Faye[/spoiler] must have been a real blast for her to play.

I'm sure.  And the rest of the cast must have howled, watching her doing run-throughs before they did a take.

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall whenever she and John Karlen were rehearsing!!!  [hall2_wink]
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Re: "Starring Joan CRAWFORD as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard"
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2006, 06:53:45 PM »
Quote from: IluvBarnabas on October 13, 2006, 01:01:03 AM
Nancy was definitely great in every role she played too. I think my favorite Nancy roles are Charity/Pansy and Leticia. I bet Charity, as [spoiler]possessed by Pansy Faye[/spoiler] must have been a real blast for her to play.

Couldn't resist responding to this one, late as it is.  At my first Fest in 06 I asked Nancy Barrett that exact question (given my handle it won't surprise anyone to hear that Pansy/Charity's one of my three favorite characters) and what she told me at that time was that that was her very favorite role.
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Re: "Starring Joan CRAWFORD as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard"
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2006, 07:12:42 PM »
Joan Crawford had been considered for Ma Kent in the 1978 Superman film.
She was too ill to accept & died as the film was shooting.

Crawford could NEVER have played Liz Stoddard.
Her 1968 Secret Storm appearence was a fiasco because she was not a quick study & didn't know her lines.
She didn't make an occasional cute blooper~~she didn't know any lines at all & couldn't figure out how to cover herself!

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Re: "Starring Joan CRAWFORD as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard"
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2008, 06:57:54 AM »
I love some of CRAWFORD old movies but I could never see her as Liz.  JB all the way. 
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Re: "Starring Joan CRAWFORD as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard"
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2008, 09:26:53 AM »
While I'm very happy that Joan Bennett played Liz, I would have liked to see Joan Crawford and Louis Edmonds acting together.
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