Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 2

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trailblazer. heartbreaker. powerbroker. Her characters suffered equally in gingham or fur. They used guts, glamour or sometimes a gun to move ahead in the world. Screen diva Joan Crawford plays a working girl on the rise in Sadie McKee and Flamingo Road, swapping a maid's outfit for mink in one and a burlesque career for smalltown respectability in the other in Strange Cargo, she sails seas of romance and redemption with on-the-lam Clark Gable. No one can forget A Woman's Face. with plastic surgery transforming Crawford's character from bitter beast to optimistic beauty. And Torch Song veers between backstage melodrama and unintended camp as fiery Broadway chanteuse Crawford finds love. Hollywood's torch burns brightly for this quintessential star