Joan Crawford SIGNED Letter & Vincent Sherman SIGNED Photo Harriet Craig Affair

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Joan Crawford SIGNED Letter
on her blue letterhead paper dated April 11, 1973 in very good condition.   Also
SIGNED 8x10 Photo by Vincent Sherman
Director of Harriet Craig 1950 Film (see photos)
Harriet Craig was Sherman's second of three films with Crawford. During their previous collaboration,
The Damned Don't Cry
, the married Sherman had begun an affair with his star that would continue through
Goodbye, My Fancy
(1951). As production on
The Damned Don't Cry
was wrapping up, Columbia Pictures asked Crawford to star in a remake of
Craig's Wife
, to be called
Lady of the House
. She asked Sherman's opinion, and he told her he thought it was dated and wouldn't work, so she turned it down. Soon after, Warner Bros. loaned out Sherman to Columbia for a film with Margaret Sullavan, which he agreed to, not realizing that the film would be
Lady of the House
. When he found out, he protested, but Columbia chief Harry Cohn insisted. When Crawford heard about it, she called producer William Dozier and told him that she would do the film after all. Sherman was the first, but not the last, to see the similarities between Harriet Craig and Joan Crawford. As he recalled in his 1996 autobiography,
Studio Affairs
, "I realized that in many ways, she was the embodiment of Harriet Craig...in her obsessive attitude toward her home; her distrust of men [because she had been abandoned by her father] and her desire to control; her power of manipulation; and her concept of the proper way for a man to behave toward his wife." Years later, when Crawford's daughter Christina published her tell-all memoir,
Mommie Dearest
, it was not difficult to see those same parallels in her daughter's description of Crawford's compulsive housekeeping.
Crawford's performance in Harriet Craig earned her some of her best reviews since
Mildred Pierce
.
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