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Joan's Last Scene Alive In The Film = Money Problems?

posted 9 years ago by poplion
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She is watching Christina on TV accept this award for her. Joan is sick (and probably dying) in a rather drab bedroom with no furniture. It is kind of depressing really. That scene always made me wonder what they were trying to imply. Was Joan Crawford broke? If so, how could there have been anything left to leave the kids during the reading of the will? I am sure this has been brought up before but I cannot recall anything about the scene being explained.

[–] shopguyperry 9 years ago

The scene was a fabrication. Christina never accepted an award for Joan while she was sick. And after her death Joan's estate was valued at 2 million.

[–] LetThemEatCake01 9 years ago

Looking at it after you mention it, yes it does make it seem like she was poor basically, but that would be incongruent with the will. I guess that is also the reason why the scene where she meets Christina in her apartment after the awards was deleted also because she's supposed to be sick in bed.

My interpretation of the scene always was that she was just sick and there was just no more glamour in her life.

[–] Noir-It-All 9 years ago

I read that Joan remained in the Imperial House bu moved to a smaller apartment. She returned to Christian Science so may have given away a lot of stuff. That said, I doubt Joan would ever allow her apartment to be unattractive.

[–] mingusal 8 years ago

Here is an interesting page showing some pictures of Joan Crawford's last apartment, including some brief text about how the pictures came to be published and Joan's unhappy reaction to them. She certainly wasn't poor, but the apartment is not what I would call elegantly decorated. The furniture is quite dated, even for the time. The styles and the colors also seem to be much more like what one would have seen in a fancy California house of the 1940s or 50s, rather than what would be in a chic NYC apartment in the late '70s.

https://www.joancrawfordbest.com/geoimperialh.htm

[–] Noir-It-All 8 years ago

Wow, that really is something to see Joan's last apartment, thank you. I understand your point about it not being a chic NYC apartment in the late '70s but maybe Joan just wanted to be real for once, let the Texas girlhood come through. In her interviews, Joan said that green was her favorite color. That must have been true as the photos show.

"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne

[–] shango7200 8 years ago

And now some super mega rich 27 year old yuppie couple lives there and could give two craps about an old movie star that they barely have even heard of. Oh well. 😥

"The ENEMY of my ENEMY is my FRIEND"

[–] CaldoTheKid (389) 6 days ago

Joan probably had done up like the 40's and 50's to remember her prime years.