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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 437691" data-attributes="member: 57984">Although casting Missy and Joan against type was part of what distinguished those two roles.If Stanwyck had done MILDRED PIERCE (and they wanted her for it) it might have just been another STELLA DALLAS: Bab&#039;s endless self-sacrifice for her daughter.But I would be curious about Crawford playing the overt killer in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Stanwyck brought a certain effective sleaze-factor to the role, but how would Joan have played it?&quot;Odd, but real,&quot; the two actresses&#039; friendship was described.<img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Joan-Crawford-and-Barbara-Stanwyck.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 700px" />I think it&#039;s a matter of degree. Bette has conceded, with criticism of her being too hammy, that the audience should get a little theatricality for their buck, a bit of larger-than-life stuff.But I have sometimes wondered, with the script and direction Hepburn received in LION IN WINTER, what would Stanwyck, Crawford and Bette Davis have done with it?Hepburn was the least insecure of the four stars. Would Bette have underplayed it in her acknowledgement that it was a terrific script, or would she have just hammed it up as she did in her two ventures into Queen Elizabeth... Stanwyck might&#039;ve have serviced it better than people might think... But what would Joan Crawford have done with Eleanor of Aquitaine and a better script than she ever saw? Could Swanson have done it?[ATTACH=full]58601[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 437691, member: 57984"] Although casting Missy and Joan against type was part of what distinguished those two roles. If Stanwyck had done MILDRED PIERCE (and they wanted her for it) it might have just been another STELLA DALLAS: Bab's endless self-sacrifice for her daughter. But I would be curious about Crawford playing the overt killer in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Stanwyck brought a certain effective sleaze-factor to the role, but how would Joan have played it? [I] "Odd, but real," the two actresses' friendship was described.[/I] [IMG width="700px"]https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Joan-Crawford-and-Barbara-Stanwyck.jpg[/IMG] I think it's a matter of degree. Bette has conceded, with criticism of her being too hammy, that the audience should get a little theatricality for their buck, a bit of larger-than-life stuff. But I have sometimes wondered, with the script and direction Hepburn received in LION IN WINTER, what would Stanwyck, Crawford and Bette Davis have done with it? Hepburn was the least insecure of the four stars. Would Bette have underplayed it in her acknowledgement that it was a terrific script, or would she have just hammed it up as she did in her two ventures into Queen Elizabeth... Stanwyck might've have serviced it better than people might think... But what would Joan Crawford have done with Eleanor of Aquitaine and a better script than she ever saw? Could Swanson have done it? [ATTACH type="full" width="910px" alt="divaswhodrink.png"]58601[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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