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#Joan crawford house after alfred steele series#

And it's anyone's guess how Crawford would have greeted last month's hit TV series based on her over-inflated rivalry with Bette Davis. More recently, in a preposterous publicity attempt, daughter Christina claimed Joan murdered husband Alfred Steele. No seminal Joan Crawford role would be complete without a randomly cruel, no-good-deed-goes-unpunished ending, in this case the motion picture legend was unceremoniously dumped by Veda - er, Pepsi - on her 65th birthday. And she carried her own ice on airplanes because she didn't trust airplane water. I thought it was pretty cool that she traveled with all of her hats.

The thing that most impressed Teresa was, "Her bedroom door was open and her whole bed was covered with hats. I've worn glasses since I was eight but she wouldn't allow me to wear glasses in the picture because she was afraid it would cause a glare." She was wearing an Ace bandage but would not allow any pictures to be taken below her knees. "She had just injured her ankle, I think she had sprained it or something.

#Joan crawford house after alfred steele movie#

We spent a significant amount of time there, everything had to be just right to allow her picture to be taken."įour or five photographs were snapped with George Perry, as instructed, gazing adoringly at the movie icon while Joan's eyes remained fixed on a point somewhere in a galaxy far, far away. "Instead of pronouncing my name 'Teresa' she called me 'Teraaaaasa.' It was very funny to me. "Quite a character," is how Teresa remembers the movie star.

I was just excited about taking a road trip." The next year, while attending a May 18, 1968, Pepsi-Cola function in Charlotte, Joan posed for a photo with two Greensboro folks, eleven-year old Teresa Staley and kiddie show star George (Old Rebel) Perry, to promote the Muscular Dystrophy Association's backyard carnival fundraisers.Īs the Association's poster child, Teresa recalls being escorted into Crawford's hotel suite in the Queen City on that Saturday afternoon, "The Old Rebel was super nervous and super excited about meeting her but I was so young I didn't have a clue. When asked about the current crop of stars she remarked, "Overexposure has removed much of the mystique. "If you drink Coke, you can think of those polar bears."Īfterward, Joan sat down with Lee Kinard for a Good Morning Show segment. "Every time you drink a Pepsi, I want you to think of Joan Crawford," she was quoted as saying. It was Mildred Pierce redux with a side of cornpone, only now her precious Veda was a cold (but refreshing) Pepsi. That way she didn't disappoint when it came to embodying that increasingly campy, old-school Hollywood stereotype she played to the hilt, "Last week at a housewarming for Donna Reed several people asked me where I was going next and when I said, 'North Carolina,' they said, 'She already packed her Southern accent!'"Ĭrushing a spent Alpine cigarette under ankle-strapped high heels, the kind Joan Crawford wore so forcefully in the 1940s they became known as 'come f**k me pumps', the Academy-Award winner took great pains to portray herself as Just Plain Joan who entertained guests with home cooked meals of breaded pork chops with fried apple rings then scrubbed the floors of her humble two-story penthouse shanty overlooking Central Park herself. There wasn't just a nip in the air that Friday morning there was a nip in Miss Crawford as well, sipping 100 proof Smirnoff throughout the day was what kept her chipper. This cool weather made me resort to the dress I traveled in last night.” Smartly dressed in a silk-lined, cinnamon colored linen jacket and matching shift, her upswept red hair tucked into an oversized fedora, Joan confessed in a drawl straight out of central casting, “Please excuse my appearance.

Crawford had just returned from England filming what would be her penultimate motion picture, Beserk, one of a string preposterous potboilers with budgets so low she had to provide her own wardrobe.įirst order of business on the morning of was a Burlington press conference for which La Crawford arrived fashionably late (a popular Hollywood euphemism, widely adopted in the South, referring to some undefined moment existing between Bette Davis promptness and ‘Miss Garland's not coming out of her dressing room'). Alfred Steele had been under the mistaken impression their extravagantly appointed New York penthouse facelift would be paid for by the soft drink company.Ĭonsequently, Steele's death a year after the project was completed left the film star with a huge debt load at a time when fewer job offers were coming her way.

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In 1967, an older and more jaded Joan Crawford, now in career free fall, waved to scattered fans from the window of her corporate jet as it taxied down the PTI runway.