Even in 2022, people still talk about Joan Crawford. Her performance in Mildred Pierce takes the audience to an acting class. Everything about it was brilliant.

@call2872

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library No doubt they are good actresses too. However, Joan had the misfortune of having her early career badly managed by MGM. As a result, she couldn't act in films that showed off her skills. It wasn't until she left MGM that she had more control about her career.

@call2872

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library She had beginnings in silent films. But her roles in sound films made her more well-known like The Women and Grand Hotel. She fought for good roles at MGM, but the studio just won't give it to her. She may lacked range unlike Katherine Helpburn and Bette Devis. But she excels when she's in her own element - playing a tortured soul. Mildred Pierce captured this and she won an Oscar.

@TheTerryE

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library You're a hater. Go away.

@endangeredarchitecture

2 жыл бұрын

Also Sudden Fear

@endangeredarchitecture

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library all of the old movie stars were "neurotic and insecure," name one who wasn't..

I wanted more Joan Crawford

@tomsperduti2967

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@verawarren2893

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! From the title I expected at least 80% Joan, however, it was still interesting

@juliusmaloney

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@stefanross8129

2 жыл бұрын

oh God yes!!!!!

@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy

2 жыл бұрын

Only because her name is in the title.

Spielberg made two brilliant observations on Joan Crawford. 1. Her range wasn't wide but within her range she could outdo any of her contemporaries. 2. In a two shot with anyone even Gable, it's Crawfords face you see. Thank you Steven.

@TheTerryE

2 жыл бұрын

When does he say this? I watched the whole thing and I didn't hear this.

@tomsperduti2967

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTerryE Not in this video. He made the observation way back in "69" in preparation for working with Joan.

@ernestonunez3839

Жыл бұрын

​@@tomsperduti2967if he said that about her range i disagree. She broke through as a flapper dancing in silent moview and not only was one of the few that transitioned but she did so by playing romance, horror, dramas, comedies and even sci fi. Playing both heroes and antiheroes. So idk based on what someone would say her range wasnt wide. Even today most actors dont have such a varied filmography

Just think that when Steven met Joan there was basically a century of movie history represented between these two. Steven, then a young man working with a lady who'd made movies all the way back in the silent era of the 1920s and he's still going strong in the 2020's.

Miss Joan Crawford was a warm, kind, understanding, patient, generous humanitarian. Don't believe the lies form that evil daughter!

Mildred Pierce is one of my favourite rainy Sunday afternoon movies.

@gordonhall752

2 жыл бұрын

Watch a Woman's Face from the previous year. Mildred Pierce was to make up to Joan for not winning for Mildred Pierce but A Woman's face is Crawford at her most beautiful and her acting is sublime.

I remember Night Gallery and loved it! I am 64.

Joan Crawford the highest grossing actress of all time in cinema and Steven Spielberg the highest grossing film director in history. The chapter of that series of both is cinema history. The last work of the most popular actress in classic cinema and the first important work of the film director with the most profitable films of the modern era of cinema. I love Joan Crawford's career, image and story. For me, she will always be the Eternal Queen of Cinema and her story is an example of self-improvement and effort.

@tomsperduti2967

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@sickheadache9903

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library Julia Roberts was getting 20 million a picture …Joan never made that.

@sickheadache9903

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library but Julia Roberts was at one point…PER FILM 20 million…Mary Pickford was 200 years old when she died and came up with other United Artist..YES a made funds ..but not like Spielberg at 5 billion…BILLION another Million.Yes I know back in the day WC Fields, MGM and so They made money ..But not like Lucas, Spielberg films…NO Hollywood film made Billions till Spielberg and Lucas and Cameron came along. Not even Racist Gone with the Wind made Billions.

@sickheadache9903

2 жыл бұрын

@Turkey Library Turkey head..Spielberg is worth 3-4 Billion…Lucas is around 5 Billion..never wrote he makes a billion each picture…Spielberg has been making Films since 1974 …And didn’t use CGI until 1993 Jurassic Park..which only had 16 minutes of CGI in it.

@user-bt7ix6sw2g

2 жыл бұрын

It's impossible to define the highest grossing actress, but she was definely top 10/5 material

Night Gallery was fantastic. For a moment in the early 70s TV was pretty good for a 14-year-old.

@johnnash297

2 жыл бұрын

PS, I loved 1941 regardless of the number of drugs used by the cast.

@quad5186

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnash297 I you haven’t already, chack out the extras for 1941 - cool stuff about the miniatures, the dance sequence and more. Another great soundtrack by John Williams, I have the double disc extended version. HORRYWOOD !!!!😂

@EastSide-qc5oy

Жыл бұрын

TV in the 70s was pretty amazing actually. You could start with The Brady Bunch and just work your way through a decade of awesome. Of course not everything was good. Plenty of stuff no one remembers. But what has held up and is remembered and still has fans (even fans like me who were too young to be paying attention for the first half of the decade), those fond memories are deserved.

@EastSide-qc5oy

Жыл бұрын

@@quad5186 I remember Nancy Allen was in it, in between Carrie and Dressed To Kill.

I loved Night Gallery. I was just a kid, but I was enthralled!

TCM is the best channel on cable

@Jimfromearthoo7

2 жыл бұрын

YT is the best streaming channel hands down. More diverse 75% of my tv viewing on (free YT)

@Paul_Wetor

2 жыл бұрын

Lately when I surf my cable channels, every one seems to be showing a commercial. I love TCM for the great movies, but I really appreciate the lack of commercials.

@jennalonsdale3629

10 ай бұрын

Hands down, nothing else even come close

"Duel" is one his best movies. Great script by Richard Matheson. Most of it is told only through visuals and sound. When I saw it on TV as a kid (as a movie of the week), my brother and I were impressed by how good it was. Nowadays I can play the DVD through my stereo system for better sound.

@jmad627

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. It’s great. Seen it a couple of times. Here on KZread, once.

@supergristmill6195

Жыл бұрын

I loved that movie. Very little to no dialog but you were on the edge of your seat throughout.

Miss Crawford was is still an icon..us gays love her.... always and forever Miss Crawford...

@RaymondHng

2 жыл бұрын

We gays also love Bette Davis.

@philipcullen3962

2 жыл бұрын

@@RaymondHng like both queen's . fabulous..me and the boyfriend Miss Crawford stunning..

@Blondie727

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipcullen3962 Why is that? No disrespect intended but why do gays love Joan & Bette? Is it because they’re bossy divas…Or??? 😬 Im a straight woman but love both ladies because they’re talented & to me, old Hollywood epitomizes glamour.

@hnc52

2 жыл бұрын

Qualifier...gays over 50...of which I am a member.

@RaymondHng

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blondie727 Elizabeth Taylor said if it weren't for gays, there would be no Hollywood. Bette Davis said about gay men, "Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid."

One of Joan's greatest performances. Steven did an excellent directing job with Night Gallery. Love "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" as well. (To this day, I still have an issue getting in the ocean - lol).

@gordonhall752

2 жыл бұрын

Joan's "greatest performance" was a 1930s film titled A Woman's Face.

@jeffcampbell1555

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't even stay in our backyard pool for long!

The greatest storyteller in movies. I remember watching a doc on him and it included a film he made at 12. At that age he new instinctively to turn the camera while filming to show the fighter pilot going down in mid flight because the plane was hit. What a gift

The Schindler’s list is his best film by far. One of the best pictures of all time.

@mariamejia4969

2 жыл бұрын

Not... the best holocaust film is LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

@bronxbearbud272

2 жыл бұрын

Was Sophie's choice considered, and which did Sophie choose?

@lindseycarribean5113

2 жыл бұрын

@@bronxbearbud272 a child over another.

@alisonm2796

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariamejia4969 No, I disagree. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL is dream-like; SCHINDLER'S LIST is the reality of the nightmare. The first is a good film, the latter is a great one.

God bless Steven for telling the truth, not the nonsense that Ben perpetuates about Crawford. She was known to be very professional, extremely talented, very polite and classy and generous. Heard all the nonsense and it doesn't hold up doing research. Old Ben wouldn't go after the problems that the likes of Bogart and Tracy had. Such a huge double standard. Steven is just an honest guy.

@EastSide-qc5oy

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think Ben was perpetuating anything. All Ben said in his question was “Joan Crawford-esque” which I took to mean the public perception of her as a diva, not a declaration that the perception was accurate. And Ben already knew the answer. He was asking for the audience. Spielberg is the one who used the descriptor “Mommie Dearest” albeit in the negative, as in she was not that. But Ben didn’t use the term. Also I watch TCM and I don’t think Ben and his cohosts shy away from discussing alleged character flaws of the classic male stars or focus overwhelmingly on those of the women.

I love Spielberg's re-examination of "WEST SIDE STORY".

@briankooker2627

2 жыл бұрын

It would have been more of a challenge and he could have gotten deeper into themes of race in America if he had decided to do a remake of Showboat instead of WSS.

I didn't get to meet him, but it's still kinda cool to think I watched ET with Steven at the European Charity Premier in London in 1982. I did see him get into his limo at the end, I knocked on the window and we gave each a thumbs up. Still have hope that one day I can work with him. This was a lovely interview. Bless you, Steven Spielberg x

@aliensoup2420

Жыл бұрын

I was outside the Cinerama Dome theater in Hollywood for the premier screening of 1941, watching all the cast members arrive in limos. I was hoping to see Spielberg walk in, but he did not show for his own movie. Maybe too ashamed to face all those actors whose careers he tarnished.

I own almost all of Spielberg's movies... on laserdiscs, on DVD, and on bluray. My favorite film of all time, my #1, was "JAWS", which own all issues. I MET SPIELBERG, in March 1986, at the academy Awards-Oscars when I attended (sneaked in, hardly sat throughout whole show, even held an actual Oscar which winners let me hold) ; when the show was over, I had been standing on stage, looking down at William Hurt who had won for "Kiss of spider woman" and Huston who won for "Prizzis Honor", and listened to them talking with friends at the bottom of the stage; when they all left, I just stood there in awe, so then walked to get off stage, as I went down the stairway, I saw a guy pass me going up the stairs, along with another guy following him, I turned around, and caught him at the middle of the stage, and shook his hand, and said "I just want to say that you are my favorite director, and I love your movies, please keep up the great work", to which Spielberg said "Thank you", and went on his way as I went back down the stairs, to exit the Dorothy Chandlier Pavilion. I had no camera, and had the program but did not ask for autograph. Was before cellphones. I had only wanted to meet only 2 people -celebs- in my life: steven Spielberg and Burt Reynolds, and I did; I have met both Spielberg and Reynolds; i met reynolds in October 1994 in New York City). Both were nice to me. I have had a FORREST GUMP style life.

Nice interview Ben! Spielberg is my favorite from the second generation of great directors. I love his vision and humble sensitivity of essence in his work. Please keep us coming back to wonder and surprise Mr Spielberg. ♥️

How fun! I was actually there in the audience seeing this.

@vladimirhorowitz

2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't even heard about this. Were they selling tickets?

Joan Crawford deserves a film about your life

R.I.P., Joan.

I truly love that man

The duel..,. There's no words

I love Steven Spielberg and his films.

What he went through directing from Joan to Jaws was an understatement. They second guessed him, they disparaged him, and they fired him every day. Sid Sheinberg redeemed him and watched over him.

Enjoyed the interview very much. Steven Spielberg has been one of my favorite directors since high school when I saw Jaws. I have enjoyed many of his movies if not all. Would love to see him on the next TCM Cruise w/everyone. Thanks Ben & TCM for us viewers to watch the interviews.

I well remember seeing the premiere showing of the Night Gallery movie on TV. I was in high school at the time. Excellent movie. I now have the DVD of several seasons of Night Gallery. Steven Spielberg always gives great interviews. Thank you Ben.

Great interview! Thanks, Ben!

Ben not the greatest interviewer but Spielberg was great. Thanks for all the wonderful movies !

Thank you for every dot and twiddle you have created. Every frame struck a cord within me. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Glad he is in good spirits after the surprise underperformance of his west side story at the box office. Great interview. Would love to go to tcmff one day!

I so wish I could be there in person. So excited to be returning for the cruise though

A fun and engaging interview. Spielberg is correct that Boris Sagal was another one of the directors on the Night Gallery pilot; however, the third director on the pilot was actually Barry Shear, not Joseph Sargent.

@jojopuppyfish

2 жыл бұрын

And Boris Sagal is the father of Peggy Bundy (Katey Segal)

Excellent interview Ben! This was so much fun to watch. Thank you TCM for posting this video!

@gordonhall752

2 жыл бұрын

If Mankiewicz was the real deal he'd never have referred to Crawford that way. He's a jerk.

Great interview! Always enjoyed Steven Spielberg's work and - it seems, he's a good guy.

Legend of Cinema !!!

That was great. Thanks. 🙂

Thank you for this wonderful interview. I remember watching Duel and the way the truck died was perfect! I look forward to watching the rest (assuming they'll also be posted here) from the film festival. What a gift for us movie lovers!

@carsonpeterson758

2 жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see Spielberg being interviewed at the tcm festival do you think he could be a fan of old classic black and white movies

@aliensoup2420

Жыл бұрын

I was in Jr. High at the time Duel premiered on TV. My group of friends raved about it, and I was excited to see it appear on tv several times. I had no idea who the director was, but after seeing Jaws, was intrigued to discover he also directed Duel, but not necessarily surprised. They are sort of the same movie - one on the ocean, one on the highway.

Steven Spielberg is the greatest. He owns his film 📽️🎥 🍿 production company Amblin entertainment in California USA 🇺🇸. Great video

An amazing interview

Always is a great movie that he made.

I love the interview with Ben mankiewicz and Steven Spielberg from downtown Winter Haven Winter Haven Florida

Fun fun interview! Unless you came back to it, Sugarland Express wasn't mentioned. That was before he made 1941 and it has some fantastic, brilliant scenes.

@aliensoup2420

Жыл бұрын

The kids sitting on the fence counting cop cars drive by stuck in my mind.

This is a singular man

Avisa pra eles Steve que a joan foi a maior atriz que hollywood já teve

I love that someone so successful can admit to having insecurities.

Stevens ability to speak narratively to children is uncanny, as a kid watching E.T. I had no notion of divorce or it’s connection to the film but I had decided in my emotional trauma watching the film that Peter Coyote’s character was Elliot’s dad doing a sort of missus Doubhtfire so he could see his kids. No idea where it came from, perhaps I was a kid trying to heal another kid.

that was way too short ... I could listen to Mr. Spielberg all day

He is a brilliant man! Joan Crawford was a true Hollywood Icon. Unfortunately, the Mommy Dearest movie has overshadowed all of her accomplishments.

I was there at in DALLAS at the Theater watching the 1st Viewing of 'Close Encounters,' and it was not the MOVIE that anyone ever saw again. ..... FINALLY, a QUESTION I didn't know the Answer for: I thought I watched a different movie after the 'Opening,' but I never had any evidence. lol that makes me special. Right?

I miss the original host Robert Osborne. But I like this new one.

Ben....not even going to try to spell the last name...is such a good Hollywood historian and ambassador .

Steven Spielberg's Jet 5,656 mile (4,915 NM) flight from LBG to VNY @ Celebjet ~ 5,247 gallons (19,861 liters). ~ 35,164 lbs (15,950 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $34,313 cost of fuel. ~ 55 tons of CO2 emissions.

Just starting to watch this but TRUST Joan would have had HUGE apprehension with a 22 year old director initially! Xxo

Notice how Ben Mankowitz tried to bait Spielberg to talk "bad" about Joan Crawford. However, like most people who actually KNEW Joan, Spielberg has nothing but GOOD stories of Joan. Ben Mankowitz is not only an embarrassment to TCM and its late host, Robert Osborne, he is a total embarrassment to his family's name. His uncle was a good friend to Joan, and he would, no doubt, be appalled by his nephew's repeated attempts to trash Joan Crawford.

@paullemon5154

2 жыл бұрын

Furthermore, it is not as if Joan's reputation was unimpeachable! You must be having too many wet dreams with respect to Joan!

@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford

2 жыл бұрын

@@paullemon5154 You have no clue what you're even talking about. Show me where Joan had a "bad reputation" PRIOR to 1978. You can't. However, I can present an exuberant amount of evidence to show her reputation was extremely good.

@paullemon5154

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford Did you know Joan Crawford personally? Chances are you wouldn't be able to find anyone saying a bad word about Crawford while she was still alive. It was a different time and different place. Bette Davis certainly wasn't effusive in her praise of Joan Crawford..you certainly can't argue that! You probably have some kind of shrine created for Crawford....whatever gets you through the day.

@paullemon5154

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford you probably are a fan of Stephanie Lazarus as well. Oh the humanity! Do more research online and I bet you will find more than a few actors/actresses who disliked Joan! Keep in mind that even legends such as Jimmy Steward and John Wayne were racists!

@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford

2 жыл бұрын

@@paullemon5154 It's clear that you know zero about this topic and therefore all you can do is offer insults. Thanks for publicly demonstrating the ignorance of people like yourself.

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The coincidence that Henry Thomas starred in Misunderstood in Tunisia and Speilberg filmed a movie where E.T. Melissa Mathison writing the E.T. then in the same area of Tunisia.

The answers just bounce off the interviewer. He had his own script and he wasn’t going to be deterred by a good follow up question.

Yeah - boy - I remembered sitting through "1941" and thinking how did anyone okay this?

Is the Night Gallery episode he directed available to stream anywhere?

💜💚💜💚

#MasterofCinema

I like 1941. It is funny & have always thought so.

Joan Crawford was a class act. She always was. Everyone says so except that one bitter jerk who wrote that awful book.

@malkaz9167

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t call the victim a bitter jerk. You do not know what it was like to be her daughter. Her other children were so afraid of Joan they could not tell the truth for fear of her.

@TheTerryE

2 жыл бұрын

@@malkaz9167 She was not a victim. She was a liar. Joan's other children were crystal clear: it never happened. And you're saying they are afraid to tell the truth for fear of a DEAD woman? You need your head examined. All of this happened after Joan died.

@malkaz9167

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTerryE How dare you say I need my head examined. You don’t know what you are talking about, so I will not respond to someone who says that to me.

No Audrey Hepburn question on TCM? She made her last film with Spielberg.

Not enough Joan on TCM.

JAWS is still the best film he ever directed.

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CURRENTLY NO SOUND ON THIS VIDEO---5/23/22

Sounds like a nice guy. Obviously affected by his parents’ divorce. Sad that his own boy went thru the same….

@EastSide-qc5oy

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it’s unfair of me but I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for any of his kids. And he didn’t go through the same. When Spielberg’s parents divorced he was practically an adult. Max was only 4 when Spielberg and Amy Irving divorced. He would have no memory of the split, and both parents agreed to live very close to each other for the sake of the child. It sounds like it was a very healthy situation as divorces go. And the whole family is wealthier than God. Money isn’t everything but they’re all fine.

At what time does he speaks about joan?

Roddy McDowell, Joan, The gunner in the plane and the artist! Amazing body of work! Great stories! Oh, you did "Amazing Stories." 😊🙂👍😷💉 Where did you tell your parents you went while at the movies? 🎬 🎥 Did they miss the 50 cents from the cookie jar? Your fish story ruined the ocean for me! Probably millions of others too? Right up until today. 🐋🌊 Mr. Spielberg, have you retired yet? Sometimes parents staying together doesn't works for some kids either.

@adamzanzie

2 жыл бұрын

The Roddy McDowell segment of the Night Gallery pilot (It was entitled "The Cemetery") was actually directed by Boris Sagal, not Spielberg.

Fact: A Jewish kid that I worked with as an usher at a movie theater his grandmother attended the same high school with Steven Spielberg in Ohio.

They talk about ET but not the amazing wrong headed decision some years ago to "fix" the film by replacing guns with walkie talkies, which has since been undone. What a bizarre idea that was.

@alfandeddie

2 жыл бұрын

Early woke symptoms

@jamesscanlan6240

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, really dumb. It's supposed to be a tense moment. Hardly tense if the worst you're thinking is, "oh my god, one of them might throw his walkie talkie at them".

I am so freaking tired of the first reference to Joan Crawford being that "Mommie Dearest" reference! Hey Christina? Karma's a bitch.

What Spielberg did as a movie maker is rightfully ledgendary. But he did for classical music by hiring John Williams over and over is nothing less rhan the redemption of an entire art form.

Spielberg reminds me of Mel Bernstein of Dragonman's.

When Crawford died a decade later, Spielberg learned that she had called up the night before filming commenced screaming to Lew Wasserman to fire Steven because he was one-third her age. Wasserman said: Joan, you don't need TV, we're grooming Steven and if you don't want to take this risk with us, you may bow out of the picture if you choose to -- but we're sticking with Spielberg..... Crickets .... Joan showed up the next day, supportive and professional, and Steven never knew what had happened.

He met her a couple of times. Cristina lived with the woman. So, he doesn't know if Crawford was "Mommie Dearest" or not. I believe Cristina, having had a similar childhood.

@Garsons-oq4lh

Жыл бұрын

#ChristinaCrawfordLied

Do you remember working with Heather O'Rourke Steven? Do ya?

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That same pin he heard dropping through 1941 fell again when he mentioned Kathleen Kennedy.

Someone know they will never be a Steven Spielberg 😮😂

The uniform now is t shirt and jeans, but its still a uniform

Why do I even buy bananas? I only ate one & have to throw the rest away.

@susanbrogan3267

2 жыл бұрын

Comment out of context. Lol! Gave me a giggle.😀

The remake of "West Side Story" was very, very good.

He should interview Michael bay next

Hollyweird is going to remake Jaws....STEVEN please stop them!

Even though I like some movies of his I will never forgive him for killing 3 people and getting a way with it

The interviewer is incoherent. Whats so difficult about asking a question? First rule don’t answer it in the question itself, ergo ‘was Joan Crawford….” Instead, try asking ‘What was Joan like?” Its pathetic that people so dumb get to have these opportunities.

Ben is the worst interviewer. He doesn't acknowledges the information, and stories these great stars are telling. He just passes over that Spielberg first "action!" Was with Rod Serling? Which obviously meant a lot to him. Ben relies too much on his relationship with a historical ancestor. He has no redeeming or interesting qualities in this business, on his own. Nevertheless it was great hearing Spielberg, thank you for posting!:)

Ive watched 1941 three times on Blu Ray trying to get into it. Doesn't work. Chatacters that are unreal and unlikeable. I feel the same way about it as that preview audience in Dallas. Crickets.

W f c

Crawford is underrated and misunderstood.

What the hell is "Joan Crawford-esque" supposed to mean? Shame on Ben Mankiewicz for promoting that same old drivel!

hope you didn’t use wire coat hangerthst mknda pisses her off jmm?? BUH!!!

Christina Crawford LIED

@lindseycarribean5113

2 жыл бұрын

We will truly never know.

@ChristinaCrawfordLied

2 жыл бұрын

@@11rokerito Joan Crawford was neither sick nor crazy. 90% of the stigma attached to her reputation is totally fraudulent, and yet people swallow it down without one iota of scrutiny.

@tomsperduti2967

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindseycarribean5113 We know she lied.

@lindseycarribean5113

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomsperduti2967 we know ??? How ?

@ChristinaCrawfordLied

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindseycarribean5113 The PROOF is on my website. Available to view and read FREE of charge.