I AM CHANNELING THE CADILLAC GODS TO SEND ME MY VERY OWN TOWNCAR....UM...SOMETHING LIKE THIS ONE.

YES, I HAD TO USE A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO SEE THESE, TOO.                                                                                                                                                  

OR THIS ONE...THESE ARE BEST WHEN VIEWED ON COLD, LATE NIGHTS

COULD NOT RESIST THIS TIE IN

CRAWFORD AND HER SHOULDER PADS, A STAPLE OF EVERY FASHION LINE AND FASHION RELATED MERCH. CHECK OUT BELOVED NEW ROMANTIC CULT HEROES, VISAGE AND THEIR NOW CLASSIC VIDEO..AS 1980'S AS IT COULD EVER GET!

HOW TO SELL A TURKEY, MGM STYLE

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN...

MORE GOODIES FROM JOAN'S PERSONAL WARDROBE AND COSTUME JEWELRY COLLECTION

LEST ONE SHOULD FORGET....

JOAN WAS NEVER INDIFFERENT TO HER FANS AND THE MASSES
LACK OF ECONOMIC POWER , TO SHOW HER SOLIDARITY, SHE
DROVE A PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE FORD COUPE, AS HER PERSONAL AUTOMOBILE, FOR  HER DAILY DRIVER CAR.
HER GARGANTUAN LIMOSINE OF THIS PERIOD WAS ROLLED OUT IN THE LATER '30'S FOR GALA PUBLIC EVENTS.

I JUST CAN PICTURE MISS C. ALIGHTING FROM HER CADDIE...

AND SWEEPING INTO THE "21" CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY.
BEJEWELED,  BEFURRED,  BEGOWNED AND BEWITCHING!

TODAY MY NEW JOAN CRAWFORD 1967 CADILLAC FLEETWOOD BROUGHAM TOWN CAR ARRIVED!

HERE SHE IS AS A SCALE MODEL...GLORIFYING UNDER MY COMPUTER SCREEN!

                
                   HERE IS MISS CRAWFORD'S CADILLAC AS IT APPEARS IN REAL LIFE!

YOU WILL BE THE ENVY OF ALL WHO WISHED THEY HAD YOUR CUNNING TASTE!

PERHAPS THESE WERE LA CRAWFORD'S
ACCESSORIES OF CHOICE WHEN HOLDING
PEPSI COURT WITH COLONEL SANDERS!
IMAGINE IF YOU AND YOUR DATE CAME
AS THESE TWO ICONS OF POP CULTURE
TO A HALLOWEEN PARTY.
YOU TWO WOULD BE THE MOST ORIGINAL
COSTUMED REVELERS EVER!

SEE WHAT I MEAN?

AND CHECK OUT THESE OVER THE TOP REPAINTS!

"ERNESTINE" SEEMS TO BE BASED ON A EARLY 40'S JOAN "LOOK".

COULD THIS BE THE SWEET, LITTLE ANGEL JOANIE WAS REFERRING TO ON "THE SIXTH SENCE" ?

DO YOU THINK DUNAWAY BASED THIS SCENE ON "MISS MENLOW"?

AND FOR A SOCK FINISH! I THINK THIS LITTLE TV DRAMA IS EXQUISITE!

HERE IS PART 2, OF "EYES". ENJOY!

JOAN CRAWFORD, DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG IN HER LAST REALLY FANTASTIC DRAMATIC ROLE, 'MISS CLAUDIA MENLOW", THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. AND THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BITCH!

SOMETHING HALLOWEEN SEASON INSPIRED...PLEASE TAKE A LOOK.

SO, HOW IS THIS FOR A PARTY IDEA...A "JOAN" AND A "BETTE", DUELING IN A DUET?

AND SPEAKING ABOUT, "HARRIET CRAIG"...

THE TALE OF THE BATTLEING STAIRCASES!

JOAN, AS HER FILM CHARACTER
"HARRIET CRAIG",  IS IN THE TOP
PHOTOGRAPH.

JOAN, AS HER
GLAMOROUS SELF, IS PHOTOGRAPHED
PERCHED UPON
HER BILLY HAINES
STAIRCASE ON
SUTTON PLACE.

NO MOVIE QUEEN
CAN RESIST MAKING HER
ENTRANCE FROM
A DRAMATIC
STAIRCASE.
 
LIFE IMITATES ART.

METHINKS JOAN MUST BE
CHANNELING HER
INNER DOLLY LEVI!

AS A FLAPPER WITCH.

JOAN AS A FEMME FATALE WITCH.

ACTUALLY THIS PAINTING IS A GOOD TIE IN FOR THE HALLOWEEN SEASON...'THE WIZARD OF OZ' WAS MADE AT METRO...JOAN DID SOME EARLY CAREER CHEESECAKE AS A SEXY WITCH AND LATER DID A PHOTO SHOOT LOOKING LIKE A GLAMOROUS SORRORESS.

WHAT WE ARE ALL CAPABLE OF BEING...WOMEN AND MEN!

JOAN CRAWFORD STARRED IN TWO VERY SUCCESSFUL WILLIAM CASTLE FILMS. WILLIAM CASTLE PRODUCED, "ROSEMARY'S BABY". THIS IS JOAN VISITING ON THE,"ROSEMARY'S BABY" SET. NOW DO YA SEE THE TIE IN, BABY?

QUESTIONING MY JUDGEMENT, YOU LITTLE DARLINGS ?

WITCHES...YOU WITCHES!

EN INGLISE, THIS IS THE FABULOUS QUEEN JOAN...IN, "QUEEN BEE"!

THIS IS ...HOW YOU SAY ...LA REINE JOAN...QUE FABULOSA!

DIE, MOMMIE, DIE..IN THE TRUE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT.

OH, THE HORROR!

AND NO JOAN CRAWFORD ENSEMBLE WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A TURBAN OF SOME KIND.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR THOSE LEFT BY THEIR HAIRDRESSERS.

JUST A REMINDER OF WHAT THE REAL JOAN LOOKED LIKE AS, "BLANCHE HUDSON".

BETTE DAVIS, AS "BABY JANE"

HERE IS A WEIRD LITTLE DOLL PORTRAIT OF JOAN AS ,"BLANCHE HUDSON".

THE GOOD STUFF, JUST SOME OF JOAN'S IMPORTANT GEMS, IN HER COLLECTION.

PERHAPS YELLOW TOPAZ WITH A PLATINUM SETTING.













HERE IS AN AQUAMARINE SUITE DESIGNED BY HOLLYWOOD FAVORITE, VERGER FRERES. THIS WAS BOUGHT AT AUCTION BY ANDY WARHOL, THEN PUT ON THE BLOCK AGAIN IN 1988.
THESE ARE CIRCA 1935.

GLITTERY ARTIFACTS...AND THEY TOOK TOP DOLLAR, TOO!

JOAN'S SMASHING EVENING GOWN , BY JEAN LOUIS, FOR HER 1955 COLUMBIA FILM,"QUEEN BEE".
THIS SATIN MASTERWORK IS ACTUALLY A DEEP PURPLE/MIDNIGHT BLUE COLOR AND THE INTERIOR LINEING IS A BRIGHT  HARD SALMON.
IT IS GORGEOUS AND I HAD THE GOOD LUCK TO SEE IT ON VIEW IN THE VERY EARLY 1980'S. IT FASCINATED ME THAT THE GOWN WAS DESIGNED FOR SOMEONE SO TINY IN PHYSICAL STATURE BUT A GIANT CULTURALLY.
AND IT MADE JOAN CRAWFORD MORE REAL AS A HUMAN BEING.

IMAGINE ARRIVING IN STYLE TO ONE OR MORE OF YOUR HALLOWEEN SOIRES!

THIS IS ONE OF JOAN'S GIGANTIC, EARLY THIRTIES
PERSONAL LIMOSINES.

THIS BEAST WAS SO GRAND THAT JOAN HAD TO WAIT UNTIL A FEW YEARS HAD PASSED BEFORE SHE WOULD FEEL IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO BE SEEN IN SUCH A GLAMOUR BOAT.

                                

THIS PHOTOGRAPH COULD BE TAKEN WITH YOU ON YOUR NOCTURNAL ROUNDS AS WELL.

YOUR 'LOOK' , COULD BE INSPIRED  ALONG THESE LINES , I SHOULD THINK!

THIS IS HALLOWEEN WEEK FOR 2009 AND I WILL BE SHOWING AUCTIONED OFF PERSONAL ITEMS. MAYBE YOU WILL GET SOME INSPIRATIONS ON DOING A TURN AS, "JOAN" AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, I WILL BE POSTING SOME REALLY TRIPPY SHOTS OF JOAN IN A MULTITUDE OF GUISES AND INCARNATIONS!

TO ROUND UP YOUR COLLECTION  YOU COULD TRY SOME REALLY GOOD THRIFT STORES IN YOUR AREA TO CREATE A MATRONLY "JOAN", CIRCA 1964-1969.
DISPLAYED HERE FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE SOME ITEMS FROM HER PERSONAL WARDROBE AND JEWEL COLLECTION.

LET US TAKE PAUSE..INHALE A DELICIOUS CHESTERFIELD CIGARETTE AND REVEL IN BEING....WELL YOU KNOW WHO.

      

                                                    

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW MUCH OUR SOCIETY LOVES IT'S CELEBRTY CULTURE...

CELEB-CULTURE AT ITS GROOVIEST...A BARBIE DREAMHOUSE , AS DESIGNED BY PHILLIPE STARK AND JONATHAN ADLER...YES I LOVE IT BUT COULD YOU IMAGINE A JOAN CRAWFORD DOLL IN HER DREAMHOUSE DONE IN THE WILLIAM HAINES STYLE  ...PRETTY FAB,  I WOULD SAY.

JOAN CRAWFORD WOULD BE QUEEN OF THIS HOTEL!

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THIS IS THE ULTRA LUXE YET INCREDIBLY FRIENDLY, LONDON HOTEL IN WEST HOLLYWOOD. IT IS A MODERN FILM QUEEN'S NATURAL HABITAT AND SEEMS TO BE INSPIRED BY EVERY GLAMOUR MOVIE MISS JOAN CRAWFORD EVER MADE. I AM SURE SHE SMILES DOWN ON THIS LUXURY OASIS!  AND I LOVED DINING THERE!

JUST FOR FUN AND YOUR VEIWING PLEASURE!

THIS SONG AND SCENE FROM, "MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY", EVOKES THE ROMANCE AND ELEGANCE OF YOUNG SUPERSTAR, JOAN CRAWFORD CIRCA 1939.

AND JUST FOR FUN..FASHION SHOWS IN BEVERLY HILLS WILL GO ON FOREVER!

THIS SETS THE MOOD OF HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS AND LOS ANGELES'S PLACE IN THE WORLD OF DESIGN. A WORLD IN WHICH WILLIAM HAINES SHINES AS BRIGHTLY AS HE EVER DID, IN PART DUE TO THE DEVOTION AND CARING OF HIS LOYAL PATRON AND FRIEND, JOAN CRAWFORD.

AND CHECK THESE OUT...

THESE ARE DETAILS OF WILLIAM HAINES FURNITURE, STILL IN PRODUCTION STILL READY TO GO INTO YOUR HOME.

THE HAINES LOOK DEPENDED ON GREAT PIECES HE DESIGNED , SUCH AS THIS MID-CENTURY GEM OF A SIDE TABLE OR THIS UNUSUAL DESK AND THIS MODERN CHAIR.