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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 377931" data-attributes="member: 7">I&#039;ve never found this to be true. My thoughts on Crawford and her contemporaries has definitely shifted over the years, but I&#039;d argue she was a good actress when given good directors and good material -- which, in fairness, is true of many actors and actresses.Her Warner Brothers years -- from 1945 to 1952 -- offer the best of her screen career, although there are a few outliers elsewhere in her filmography. THE WOMEN (1939), STRANGE CARGO (1940), and A WOMAN&#039;S FACE (1941) are probably the best of her pre-Warners career, as most of her MGM films in the 1930s were not particularly demanding of her as an actress.I&#039;ll give Crawford credit for one thing -- she changed with the times. She was a flapper in the &#039;20s, a rags-to-riches Cinderella and clotheshorse in the &#039;30s, an elegant, noirish professional in the &#039;40s, a middle-aged tearjerker in the &#039;50s, and the face of hag horror in the &#039;60s.[ATTACH=full]48882[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 377931, member: 7"] I've never found this to be true. My thoughts on Crawford and her contemporaries has definitely shifted over the years, but I'd argue she was a good actress when given good directors and good material -- which, in fairness, is true of many actors and actresses. Her Warner Brothers years -- from 1945 to 1952 -- offer the best of her screen career, although there are a few outliers elsewhere in her filmography. THE WOMEN (1939), STRANGE CARGO (1940), and A WOMAN'S FACE (1941) are probably the best of her pre-Warners career, as most of her MGM films in the 1930s were not particularly demanding of her as an actress. I'll give Crawford credit for one thing -- she changed with the times. She was a flapper in the '20s, a rags-to-riches Cinderella and clotheshorse in the '30s, an elegant, noirish professional in the '40s, a middle-aged tearjerker in the '50s, and the face of hag horror in the '60s. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1699150523300.png"]48882[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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