The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
From Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.
I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.
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