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DVD : The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Van Heflin directed by: Curtis Bernhardt, George Cukor, Jean Negulesco, Michael Curtiz, Vincent Sherman  List Price: $49.98 Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $29.99 (60%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9781419812736 Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 1419812734 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 5 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 14, 2005 Running Time: 580 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 1947 Sales Rank: 3627 MPN: WARD70810D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: The Joan Crawford Collection features classics from the star whose career spanned more than 40 years. "I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door." - Joan Crawford Amazon.com: The Joan Crawford Collection brings together a potent group of films from Crawford's career renaissance: her Warner Bros. run of the late 1940s, beginning with Mildred Pierce. Four of the titles are from that heated, noirish streak, including Crawford's 1945 Oscar-winning turn in Mildred, a great Hollywood example of an actress's persona meeting the zeitgeist moment. In this adaptation of the James M. Cain novel, Crawford plays a sacrificing mother perfectly willing to claw her way to success for the sake of her ingrate daughter. Michael Curtiz directed, snapping Crawford out of a long career slide. Humoresque (1946) was promptly given the top-drawer treatment, and it's a truly epic melodrama about a restless society woman who takes up the cause of a young violinist (John Garfield) from the slums. Possessed (1947) gave Crawford a thorough workout as a woman in complete obsessive breakdown from various romantic traumas. What Crawford lacks in subtlety she makes up for in sheer will, which suits the character well (and brought another best actress Oscar nomination). The Damned Don't Cry (1950) is a film noir smash-up, with Crawford as a low-rent dame who brazens her way into becoming a fur-lined mobster's moll (it was loosely inspired by the Bugsy Siegel-Virginia Hill story). It's overripe but entertaining. 1939's The Women, an MGM picture, doesn't fit the mood of the collection, although it has its fans. George Cukor directed this catty version of the Clare Booth Luce play, which has an all-female ensemble cast; Crawford is in very good form as a bad girl. The movie's reputation is somewhat beyond its actual witchy charm. (Packaging gaffe: the photo on the back cover is from Seven Women.) DVD extras tend toward smallish documentaries, save the absorbing 90-minute career profile The Ultimate Movie Star on the Mildred Pierce disc, an even-handed study that includes frank revelations from director-lover Vincent Sherman and the "wire hangers" story from adopted daughter Christina. Sherman contributes a commentary on The Damned Don't Cry. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Now I know why this set is never on saleI'd put off getting this boxed set because it never went on sale. That is true of both this set and the Judy Garland Signature Collection. I finally did get this one, and for the past few days I've gone through the set and I can see why it's never on sale. Although I frequently see "The Women" and "Mildred Pierce" televised, it had been awhile for two of the others, and I had never seen "Humoresque" before. What a treat, what five outstanding films. You could honestly say that "The Women" and "Humoresque" ... Read More Rating: - films with classThese films have a class about them that the newer generation of films do not.All though the films are in black and white the stories go along with the non color whitch i think makes this period of films classic. This way you can immagine any color of a dress that you want.There is a fashion show in The Women that was shot in color. The Damed Dont Cry and Mildred Pierce were my favorite out of the set. I am now watching vol. 2 , Joan Crawford.She is a star with class. Rating:  - TCM Runs All of These Movies for FreeI know that my review will not be popular with Joan Crawford fans who simply want to put 5 stars up for their idol; however, this is a critique of the box set, not Joan Crawford. I won't buy the box set because I have already recorded all of the movies included in it for less than .25 cents a piece. Turner Classic Movies plays them repeatedly and is doing so currently. Thus, I find this collection to be old hat and too standard to get excited about at all. Plus, most of these DVDs were already available. Buying ... Read More Rating: - WonderfulHaving been brought up one block from 42nd St. and two blocks from Broadway, what can I tell you? At six years old, I was totally in love with Rita Hayworth, and wanted her to wait for me, but she went off and married some older, more wealthy men. (Go figure.) I also believed that all truly beautiful women were like Joan Crawford, e.g., "handle with care" and "proceed with caution". (Ha, ha) I can tell you that "The Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 1" is a keeper. It features her films: ... Read More Rating: - Joan Volume 2 - Coming 2/08!!!Joan Crawford Collection Vol. 2 (R1) in February - Artwork added Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of the Joan Crawford Collection Volume 2 on 12th February 2008. Following the success of its best-selling Joan Crawford Collection in 2005, Warner brings you a new set of Crawford classics featuring some of the Oscar-winning actress' finest films - A Woman's Face, Flamingo Road, Sadie McKee, Strange Cargo and Torch Song. Drawn from her years at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros., each ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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