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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 271784" data-attributes="member: 5079">FLAMINGO ROAD is my default favorite Crawford film, although I might spend some time debating amongst THE DAMNED DON'T CRY and POSSESSED (1947).  It's a noir-tinged, soapy melodrama that's grounded and also slightly absurd without delving into camp.  If nothing else, Joan is too old for the role; far from being a detriment, it's reflective of her self-made star power.  (She might even have pulled it off twenty years later in STRAIGHT-JACKET if the movie itself wasn't so incompetent.)I've never seen the TV-series.  Who played the Crawford role?</blockquote>