4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 9, 2023

In our ongoing exploration of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’s filmographies, here are three more films building on Crawford’s renewed critical success in the 1940s after Mildred Pierce (1945) and Humoresque (1946). Possessed opens with Joan Crawford wandering the city streets past cable   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 27, 2020

We open up on the Acme Paper Box Co., which has a down-and-dirty industry strewn about its edges. If the people flooding out of the factory are any indication, this will be a dusty, grubby, little picture. Two of their employees are Al Manning (Wallace Ford) and Marian Martin (Joan...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on June 30, 2015

From the first moments of 1947's Possessed, Joan Crawford sketches a character different from, deeper than, and profoundly stranger than any I've seen her play in what was even then her two decades on screen. I'm embarrassed to say that until yesterday, I'd not seen this one. Somehow I vaguely...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on June 30, 2015

From the first moments of 1947's Possessed, Joan Crawford sketches a character different from, deeper than, and profoundly stranger than any I've seen her play in what was even then her two decades on screen. I'm embarrassed to say that until yesterday, I'd not seen this one. Somehow I vaguely...   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 19, 2014

In her second film noir appearance – and her second film with the same name –  Joan Crawford starred in Possessed, released by Warner Bros., in 1947. It’s airing Thursday on TCM – I strongly recommend that you give it a look. The film opens with Crawford’s character, Louise Howell...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on November 3, 2014

This week Warner Archive has given us the gift of Joan Crawford on Blu-ray. As a woman haunted by mental illness and consumed with toxic love for self-centered homme fatale Van Heflin, she suffers deep, chin quivering anguish as only she could. The power of this film snuck up on...   read more

Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Posted by Joey on June 9, 2014

Possessed(1947) review   “David” is the first word spoken from Louise Howell Graham’s (Joan Crawford) mouth as she is walking aimlessly around the streets walking up to strange men asking if they are this mysterious “David.” Louise is a mentally ill woman but how did s   read more

Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Posted by Joey on June 9, 2014

Possessed(1947) review   “David” is the first word spoken from Louise Howell Graham’s (Joan Crawford) mouth as she is walking aimlessly around the streets walking up to strange men asking if they are this mysterious “David.” Louise is a mentally ill woman but how did s   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on November 12, 2013

Marian Martin (Joan Crawford) is an unrepentant gold digger.  She’s a factory worker from Erie, Pennsylvania, but she would love to be a high society dame.  Her boyfriend Al Manning (Wallace Ford) is a fellow factory worker and is content to stay that way. But Marian knows her only real...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on July 2, 2013

Day two of my week devoted to Joan Crawford continues with an exploration into mental illness and murder. Possessed starts out with a promising story of obsession and mental instability, but collapses under the heft of a murder mystery and love triangle with a leading man who lacks any necessary...   read more

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on February 16, 2013

(Image: More Noir Posters) Louise Howell (Joan Crawford) has landed herself in a psych ward under the care of Dr. Harvey Willard (Stanley Ridges). She seems frantic and constantly repeats the name “David,” but no one understands what sent her into such a breakdown… …that is,   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on November 15, 2010

Mention the words “Joan Crawford” and “book” in the same sentence and the first thing so many people will think of is, “No more wire hangers!” But on the other hand,  it’s been my experience that many of those who don’t buy into the Mommie Dearest hyp   read more