Geoffrey Rush Takes on The Rule of Jenny Pen

New Zealand drama about retirees explores quiet complicity

"...the Bette Davis,” he observed. “I think I’m doing Joan Crawford.”..."

April 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Weekend in Film

What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time

"...“She’s emotionally disturbed. She’s unbalanced!” The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Grand Guignol thriller What Ever Happened to Baby..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Letters at 3AM: As Time Goes By

"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column

"...John Wayne starred in Back to Bataan. Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce...."

Nov. 14, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Listen to What the Man Said

Paul McCartney’s first-night Erwin Center sell-out astounds

"...Hallmark moment “Your Mother Should Know” flashed images of Joan Crawford, Jackie Kennedy, the late Linda McCartney, and many..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Blue Öyster Cult

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"..."Vengeance (The Pact)" quotes the film, while his hair-raising "Joan Crawford" could soundtrack Mommie Dearest. Luckily, final Columbia mission..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'A Conga Line of Incongruous Celebrities'

Sam Staggs chronicles the extraordinary life of a Hollywood gadabout in 'Inventing Elsa Maxwell'

"...Mildred Pierce. I could only spend two weeks with Joan Crawford, if that, but not two years."..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM: Reveries

Beauty is something you don't have to deserve

"...of old Hollywood – Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford dallied there. Bette Davis kept an apartment nearby...."

Nov. 16, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Forever Lon

Eye to eye with the Man of Thousand Faces

"...humor runs throughout the circus-set picture (a very young Joan Crawford is also in the cast), but the only..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'

"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America

"...an Emmy, a Tony, and/or a Golden Globe, including Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Malone, Walter Matthau, Robert Duvall,..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director

Film scholar Patrick McGilligan explores an auteur's troubled life and career

"...with women (including such film sirens as Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, and Rebel's 16-year-old star, Natalie Wood) and men..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Learn why Your Style Avatar is running around, flapping his arms, and shouting 'bingo!'

"...from Blood and Sand; Elizabeth Taylor's headdress from Cleopatra; Joan Crawford's waitress uniform from Mildred Pierce; and so many..."

June 10, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Letters at 3AM: In a Lonely Place

Film noir is a cinema of failure

"...In Humoresque, scripted by Clifford Odets, Joan Crawford accurately insults John Garfield. He smiles: "Evidently, you..."

June 3, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road's End

Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out

"...Rip Torn, James Coburn, Jo Van Fleet, and even Joan Crawford. By my count, this list includes 14 Academy..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...mother of all self-sacrificial movies is Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford. Eve Arden's character in Mildred Pierce nails the..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Castlemania

One boy's induction into horror

"...mean, c'mon, how often do you get to see Joan Crawford practice chopping a dummy's head off with an..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Celestino, Take Me Away!

Celestino by Sergio Guadarrama at Spazio Interiors

"...and satin, matte on slink, floor-length gown worthy of Joan Crawford in her prime. Guadarrama, an FIT graduate, proves..."

May 10, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

After a Fashion

Stephen is going to affairs and fundraisers as if his life depends on it. Oh, right.

"...friends I have yet to know."... Mildred Pierce, starring Joan Crawford in her 1945 Oscar-winning performance, is being shown..."

April 25, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

There's always room at the inn for Stephen

"...Chronicle Food Editor Virginia Wood, with a screening of Joan Crawford's Mildred Pierce. Also, Wednesday, May 14, is booked..."

April 18, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Stephen, Readers Want to Know More of Your Story

"...path and destiny. Give it your best Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, or Bette Davis Hollywood ending...."

Feb. 5, 2008 Postmarks

Jazzin' Up Catfish Row

After 70 years, Zach creates a Porgy and Bess for Austin

"...in 1935 was full of names we still recognize: Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Virgil Thomson, Ben Hecht, Jascha Heifetz,..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis

Film historian Ed Sikov has compiled a loving, slavishly and meticulously researched profile of one of the 20th century's most memorable film icons

"...knife to a houseguest's chest after he stupidly praised Joan Crawford's glamour. Sikov doesn't spend too much time on..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Review by Melanie Haupt

After a Fashion

This week, Stephen dukes it out with a real queen

"...we could do to relax: Watch the DVD of Joan Crawford's Queen Bee...."

Aug. 24, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...Pact)," even Joe's uncredited piano intro to Albert's harrowing "Joan Crawford," had finally met their match more than 20..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dominance & Submission

"..."Joan Crawford," Fire of Unknown Origin..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar gets all Sunset Boulevard at the David Lynch premiere

"...name "Greg" – exactly as Faye Dunaway's character of Joan Crawford did. (It's so cruel to hear Faye Dunaway..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Culture Flash!

The 411 on Zachary Scott, how public art is made, and auditioning for the Macy's Parade

"...Zachary Scott or what else he did besides bedevil Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce? Well, you can find out..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Harlan County, USA

"...in all of her deranged glory torturing real-life nemesis Joan Crawford. With a commentary track by Lypsinka and multiple..."

June 23, 2006 Screens Review by Toddy Burton

A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire

With his solo show 'A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire,' Rob Nash has lit a fire under Dickens' perennial fable like Austin's problem child with a grill

"...though it was Dickens' intention all along to have Joan Crawford as Marley Dearest or Mae West as Scrooge's..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

The Three Scrooges

Three different stage versions of 'A Christmas Carol' are playing this season, and one of them is sure to please the discriminating Dickens-lover in your household

"...story's familiar roles, similarly cast across gender, so it's Joan Crawford as Jacob Marley and Katharine Hepburn as Bob..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

How does Stephen M. M. repeatedly get such hot dates? By being the Avatar's Avatar, that's how. See what local gigs he appeared at this week …

"...it that there's an incendiary feud of the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford variety between them. Yum, grab a dish and..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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