Not the girl next door
Subtitle: Joan Crawford, a personal biography
By: Charlotte Chandler
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781416547518
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: In this new biography, Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. As a result, this biography is a brand-new look at one of Hollywood's most acclaimed stars. Although her adopted daughter Christina would publish the scathing memoir Mommie Dearest after Crawford's death, Chandler offers a contrasting portrait, drawing in part on reminiscences of younger daughter Cathy among others. The result is an intimate portrait of a great star who was beautiful, talented, glamorous, and surprisingly vulnerable.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes filmography: p. 295-303.
Table of contents: title: Dancing daughter (1908-1924); title: Starlet by starlight (1925-1926); title: Douglas and Pickfair (1927-1929); title: M-G-M star (1930-1933); title: M-G-M superstar (1934-1944); title: The early Warner years (1945-1948); title: The later Warner years (1949-1951); title: The Pepsi generation (1952-1960); title: Joan alone (1961-1970); title: Goodbye, world (1971-1977); title: "Mommie wasn't a movie star in our house" a postscript.