Joan Crawford in 'Queen Bee'
There's a gorgeous print on Tubi and somehow I'd never seen it.
Great fun as Joan cunts around a Southern mansion in an increasingly improbable number of over-the-top dresses, making everyone's life miserable, especially poor Betsy Palmer.
There are two hilarious bits of "symbolism" where she strokes a phallic perfume bottle while flirting with a younger man on the phone, and when her bitter husband toys with a nutcracker while complaining about her, crushing a nut at his crescendo.
And so many great lines — "You're so quiet we're going to have to put a bell on you," "Don't you look sweet, even in those tacky old riding clothes," and "Any man's my man if I want it that way."
I'm sure some of you bitches have seen it multiple times. So glad I finally got to watch!
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 14, 2024 2:09 AM
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The Queen is starring in the remake directed by spike Lee.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 14, 2024 12:22 AM
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Joan actually looks happy in OP’s image. It’s so jarring — can’t process it.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 14, 2024 12:27 AM
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You may find this 2022 thread of interest.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 14, 2024 12:30 AM
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As well as this closed 2021thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 14, 2024 12:31 AM
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Joan and John Ireland were banging during the filming. He was hung like a horse.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 14, 2024 12:37 AM
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I forgot a third piece of hilarious symbolism. When Joan is canceling a party invite to hang out with John Ireland, she manages to get the phone cord around his neck and tightens it like a noose.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 14, 2024 12:40 AM
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You're like some fancy kind of disease. I had you once... now I'm immune!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 14, 2024 12:45 AM
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Christina said that Joan's performance was her mother in real life.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 14, 2024 12:46 AM
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One of her better fifties films.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 14, 2024 1:23 AM
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r10 Betsy Palmer talked about Joan getting boned by Ireland in the TCM doc. It's also been written about.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 14, 2024 2:09 AM
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