Joan Crawford discusses her forty-two years in the film business with Philip Jenkinson.

"I had no formal education whatsoever. I used to have to read scripts and then look up the words in the dictionary, and how to pronounce them, before I could learn the lines."
"I write about 10,000 letters a month to my friends. I never call them fans."
"The men we work with see us at our best. Those we marry see us at our worst."
Film extracts by courtesy of M.G.M., British Film Institute, Warner Brothers, and Columbia
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