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Which Joan Crawford movie is it ?

by Guest5186 | earlier

I just watched &quot;Harriet Craig&quot; starring Joan Crawford. I didnt really know too much about her when I grew up in the 1960s, but I read the Bob Thomas book on her career. I gained some amount of respect for this woman by reading about her real life struggles and history. We did see some of her films on the after school movie, but of course they were severely cut down. When she died, I was living in Philadelphia and they had a week long tribute to her in a movie theater there. You saw two of her films for a dollar -- complete and on the big screen. I remember seeing &quot;Harriet Craig&quot; -- but it seems that the version I saw was somewhat different than the one available for home viewing.
Or do I have &quot;Harriet Craig&quot; confused with another movie where Joan Crawford also has a mother in an old folks home (or institution). She does bring her mother thread and soft wash cloths in &quot;Harriet Craig&quot; but somehow I remember a scene where she tells her mother to help the employees clean the hospice and brings her washing rags. In the film I am remembering, her mother asks her about the man in her life and the Joan Crawford character tells the mother not to pry and that she &quot;out of bounds&quot; asking about this subject.
Is this part of &quot;Harriet Craig&quot; that has been cut from the home video version -- or is it part of an entirely different Joan Crawford movie ?

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Tom Reeds

They shoot the scenes so many times, and from so many different angles, and they cut several prints to send out. Sometimes you will see them on TV, or in a theater years later, and the version you see if quite different than the first one you saw, and it makes you doubt your memory. The way movie is made is strange.

They sometimes shoot all the scenes one actor is in, because they have to do another movie, and haven't enough time to complete that one. So they may shoot the ending of a film before the middle, or randomly through the story. It takes months to complete a movie. Sometimes, in cutting, different scenes are put in, and you see it one time, it is from one angle, and in another print, it will be from a different room, or the actors' lines will be just a little different. They shoot different endings sometimes, and decide which one they want to keep, after viewing both. Sometimes they send out prints with the different endings for an audience to view in one of the markets, and don't decide which ending they will use until the results from that viewing poll are in.

They would have shot the beginning and the end, and then the scenes on the island, as his beard grew and he lost the weight. He may have frown the beard and lost the weight, and they shot all that, and then they shaved him, and shot the scenes where he first came back, and when he gained back his weight, the may have shot the beginning.

They will shoot all the scenes the extras are in, at one time, so they don't have to pay them to wait around until the other scenes they are in come up. That is how the character players can be in so many movies that come out at the same time. I was never much of a Joan Crawford fan, and although I know I saw Harriet Craig, I don't remember any of it. So you are not losing your marbles, or your memory, you just saw two different prints of the same movie.

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