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Posted Oct. 15, 2007, 3:59 p.m. ET
Joan Crawford's Torch Song On DVD!
By Dennis Dermody
Just got a great scoop -- Warner Brothers is releasing the Joan Crawford Collection Vol. 2 on DVD on Feb. 15th and it's a great selection: A Woman's Face, the sensational melodrama Flamingo Road, Sadie McKee, the truly bizarre Strange Cargo and my all time favorite Torch Song, a 1953 howler about a temperamental Broadway star played by Crawford to the hilt. She's even mean to blind people (Michael Wilding plays a sightless pianist who incurs her wrath). And you get to see Joan in blackface singing Two-Faced Woman! Trust me, I have showed this movie to hundreds of friends and they have left slack-jawed.
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I laughed throughout this film. One can't help but think it was the perfect template for Faye Dunaway's performance in "Mommie Dearest." But one has to also realize this film was shot in about three and a half weeks. The fact it was recorded on film at all is something of a miracle. In today's film business it couldn't be done. So, enjoy it for what it is; high camp.
Posted at 3:00 p.m. ET on Apr 29, 2008 by Steve White
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