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good ? Never cared for Joan Crawford or Bette Davis movies.
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Which ones have you seen? I ask because Joan Crawford's are kind of a mixed lot. Davis' films were usually of a better dramatic calibur.
With Crawford, she was the big draw and the stories were basically secondary. I think her best are "Grand Hotel", "Harriet Craig" and perhaps "A Woman's Face". She's very good in the first half of that one, but then it all becomes much more conventional in the later part. Her films where she plays hard boiled dames from the wrong side of the tracks (like "Flamingo Road" and "The Damned Don't Cry!") (yes, with an exclamation point) are tawdry, campy fun.
Bette Davis had, to my thinking, much stronger scripts on her side. I especially like "All This and Heaven Too". And of course "All About Eve" is a classic all around. "Now Voyager" is interesting, and "The Little Foxes" is very dramatic (it's based on a classic stage play.) In short, Davis was basically the premiere dramatic actress of her day, so a lot of important properties came her way. She was up to them.
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Got to agree with Cookie. There are plenty of great Crawford and (particularly) Davis films, so which have you seen?
IMO Crawford was great, in various ways, but Davis was superior and overall in superior films.
I'm looking forward to this season to Feud (which I keep reading as Freud). Great cast. Love Susan S and Jessica L. How could it be anything other than good at a minimum?
I agree with Cookie also.
It's a cartoon based on gay men's campy fantasies of Davis and Crawford. It may be entertaining in some way, but it's mainly a joke. The best way to know these two women is to watch as many of their movies as possible, which would be a better use of time than watching this silly miniseries.
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