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Joan Crawford: “Whoever Heard of a Red Weirdo?”

I love how the mom ditches Joan as soon as she can.

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by Anonymousreply 91May 14, 2021 7:57 PM

That's what I used to call Franchot's wanger.

by Anonymousreply 1April 18, 2021 11:27 PM

You just know that Joan slapped the shit out of "Missy" once they wrapped.

by Anonymousreply 2April 18, 2021 11:27 PM

I love how it was credited to Pepsi and THE FOOD INDUSTRY

by Anonymousreply 3April 18, 2021 11:28 PM

"There's your brother! He fell out of the HOLE!"

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by Anonymousreply 4April 18, 2021 11:31 PM

Someone posted this years ago and there was a great thread on it

by Anonymousreply 5April 18, 2021 11:33 PM

You’ll never see an aging actress in a hat and dress shopping in a supermarket these days, but the most surprising thing about that film is how little supermarkets have changed: the meat is still in styrofoam and shrink wrapped, the lobsters are still plucked from the tank, and the toy vending machines are still by the door.

by Anonymousreply 6April 18, 2021 11:33 PM

This is like the eighth time we've done this. How many fucking times are we gonna comment on the same fucking thing?

by Anonymousreply 7April 18, 2021 11:34 PM

Jesus r7, try decaf.

by Anonymousreply 8April 18, 2021 11:36 PM

Where’s your thread then, asshole?

by Anonymousreply 9April 18, 2021 11:37 PM

SYOO-per-market

by Anonymousreply 10April 18, 2021 11:37 PM

What a classy woman. I wanted to clock Missy myself.

by Anonymousreply 11April 18, 2021 11:38 PM

A “red weirdo.” American culture was so inane in the 50s and 60s.

by Anonymousreply 12April 18, 2021 11:38 PM

Green... like the grass... like the trees....

by Anonymousreply 13April 18, 2021 11:39 PM

The original

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by Anonymousreply 14April 18, 2021 11:40 PM

I'm frightened for the child.

by Anonymousreply 15April 18, 2021 11:40 PM

She traded in the kid for the groceries.

by Anonymousreply 16April 18, 2021 11:42 PM

Go eat your (toxic vinyl polystyrene) weirdo!

by Anonymousreply 17April 18, 2021 11:43 PM

Joan look I shoved my weirdo in my pussy!

by Anonymousreply 18April 18, 2021 11:45 PM

No, silly, that’s where you put saww-sage.

by Anonymousreply 19April 18, 2021 11:51 PM

Hey at least Joan knew the difference between Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster.

by Anonymousreply 20April 18, 2021 11:53 PM

It's real Spanish sausage, Missy, but you can call him "Tio".

by Anonymousreply 21April 18, 2021 11:58 PM

Do we think Joan ever bought any groceries in her life?

by Anonymousreply 22April 19, 2021 5:04 PM

You can dress her up, but she’s still a common frump that takes in washing.

by Anonymousreply 23April 19, 2021 5:12 PM

What is "Answer to Joseph McCarthy's communism question." Alex.

by Anonymousreply 24April 19, 2021 5:35 PM

That was amazing- and was anyone else disappointed that they didn’t get Bette Davis to play the red weirdo?

by Anonymousreply 25April 19, 2021 5:37 PM

Green. Like the grass, like the trees, like my pussy.

by Anonymousreply 26April 19, 2021 5:38 PM

At least it wasn't a Rat Fink, r12...

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by Anonymousreply 27April 19, 2021 5:42 PM

r27 here...

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by Anonymousreply 28April 19, 2021 5:45 PM

The only thing that could have made this video even more camp and incredible would have been having Norma Shearer pass by silently as Joan peeks into her cart and then gives a disapproving look to the camera.

by Anonymousreply 29April 19, 2021 5:52 PM

Wait, veal cutlets come from God?

by Anonymousreply 30April 20, 2021 12:01 AM

I'm hoping that little girl likes her meat RARE.

by Anonymousreply 31April 20, 2021 1:12 AM

I should known you’d know where to find the saw-sage!

by Anonymousreply 32April 20, 2021 1:20 AM

I'm Are82 at the previous thread.

Little girl: What are you looking for now?

Joan: Spanish sausage.

Little girl: What's that?

Joan: The nickname we gave Fernando Lamas at MGM.

by Anonymousreply 33April 20, 2021 1:41 AM

Green like the bruises on Christina's ass.

by Anonymousreply 34April 20, 2021 1:08 PM

“Here’s your green weirdo. Now, remember: I am bigger than you and I will always beat you.”

by Anonymousreply 35April 20, 2021 10:13 PM

Quick, everyone! Our entire point of existence is keeping r7 amused and making sure he's never bored nor finds anything repetitious! Someone do something original, immediately!

by Anonymousreply 36April 20, 2021 10:15 PM

[quote]SYOO-per-market

Joan sweated blood to lose her San Antonio dialect and to learn to "speak MGM".

As Carrrie Fisher used to say, she and her mother Debbie Reynolds were two of the last living speakers with fluency in the "MGM dialect"

by Anonymousreply 37April 20, 2021 10:31 PM

"No dear, that's your brother 'Christopher'. Remember we returned the other 'Christopher'...the one who made a mess in the bed."

by Anonymousreply 38April 20, 2021 10:34 PM

Here's a penny dear...

now you distract the nice cameraman while Auntie Joan takes some more of her "medicine"

by Anonymousreply 39April 20, 2021 10:39 PM

There's something really nice about the 60s footage. I feel so happy looking at it. I was born in 82 so really not that far away but I used to think it was so.

I don't know what it was. Maybe more trust and social cohesiveness? But we're not seeing the harder lack of human rights. This is a time when the My Lai massacre would have occured by American troops in Vietnam.

Still, I like the modesty. Dressing up like the Queen Mother to go out. Why on Earth does no one dress up anymore? As if they will be ridiculed for dressing up and giving a damn. It's little things like that that give meaning to life. I can't imagine any person of Walmart existing in that time. What happened? Hippie rebellion anti-war counter culture? No wonder the establishment didn't like them. Filthy Godless boho degenerates.

by Anonymousreply 40April 20, 2021 10:42 PM

Joan would never shop in a grocery store frequented by Hippies with unwashed feet.

by Anonymousreply 41April 20, 2021 10:55 PM

Little Girl: "I want to go with Auntie Joan."

Mother: "You don't hurt my feelings, Missy, I know what you're after."

Joan: "Don't worry...GODDAMN IT! WHERE IS MY KEY LIGHT! DO I HAVE TO CRAWL UP INTO THE SCAFFOLDING AND SHOW YOU INSIPID CUNTS HOW TO RIG THE FUCKING LIGHTING TOO!"

"AND SOMEONE SHOW THIS LITTLE BLONDE SHIT HOW TO HIT HER MARK!"

by Anonymousreply 42April 20, 2021 10:56 PM

[quote]Still, I like the modesty. Dressing up like the Queen Mother to go out. Why on Earth does no one dress up anymore? As if they will be ridiculed for dressing up and giving a damn. It's little things like that that give meaning to life.

Excuse me while I play the grand piano...

by Anonymousreply 43April 20, 2021 10:58 PM

A DL classic. I think I first heard of this video on DL many years ago.

by Anonymousreply 44April 20, 2021 11:03 PM

Marry me, R42. 😂😂😂😂

by Anonymousreply 45April 20, 2021 11:04 PM

Christ, did that family in the second clip have a canned ham fetish?

by Anonymousreply 46April 20, 2021 11:05 PM

You know when I was your age...

we knew how to get our candy and toys without showing our panties to all the boys in the Syoo-permarket

by Anonymousreply 47April 20, 2021 11:09 PM

"Another fine performance by Miss Joan Crawford"

"Brought to you by the Soldiers and Sailors of the U.S. Military"

by Anonymousreply 48April 20, 2021 11:14 PM

[quote] “Here’s your green weirdo. Now, remember: I am bigger than you and I will always beat you.”

LITERALLY, R35!

by Anonymousreply 49April 21, 2021 12:07 AM

[quote] This is like the eighth time we've done this. How many fucking times are we gonna comment on the same fucking thing?

Until they finally find actual video footage of Joan drunk on [italic]The Secret Storm[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 50April 21, 2021 12:27 AM

Hush, hush, sweet sausage.

by Anonymousreply 51April 21, 2021 12:37 AM

I love this because who wants to go shopping with old lady Joan?

In this world they do.

by Anonymousreply 52April 21, 2021 12:41 AM

This shit again? I still remember what I wrote the last time this thread appeared a year and a half ago: The real fun began when Crawford tossed that kid into the Pork n Beans display and made a beeline to the liquor aisle! Haha

by Anonymousreply 53April 21, 2021 1:09 AM

[quote]Joan sweated blood to lose her San Antonio dialect and to learn to "speak MGM".

True. Joan had a thick Southwest accent when she arrived in Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 54April 21, 2021 2:45 AM

It would've been hilarious if Joan's shopping cart was full of nothing but bottles of vodka and cartons of cigs.

by Anonymousreply 55April 21, 2021 2:46 AM

"By 1980 . . . a movie will come out that will completely destroy my reputation".

by Anonymousreply 56April 21, 2021 3:11 AM

It made her reputation.

by Anonymousreply 57April 21, 2021 3:25 AM

(later that day)

You said you wanted another monster, Missy!

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by Anonymousreply 58April 21, 2021 3:34 AM

I always felt like hanging out with Joan would be great for you kind of like finishing school. Christina was just ungrateful.

by Anonymousreply 59April 21, 2021 3:35 AM

Remember when going to the supermarket was an event? It was like going to an amusement park with the bright lights, colorful packages and cool air-conditioning. Nothing gave me a thrill like walking up and down the frozen foods aisle and marveling at all ice cream, popsicles and frozen pies.

by Anonymousreply 60April 21, 2021 3:36 AM

Everybody was so dressy dressy in those days. Even running errands around town, people were well-groomed and wearing formal clothes.

We all look like such trashy slobs today in our T shirts and sweatpants.

by Anonymousreply 61April 21, 2021 3:36 AM

Speak for yourself r61

by Anonymousreply 62April 21, 2021 3:37 AM

If you grocery shop high it’s still like that r60

by Anonymousreply 63April 21, 2021 3:38 AM

r62 I was speaking generally.

by Anonymousreply 64April 21, 2021 3:40 AM

Does anyone remember when they used to give you dinner wear and glasses at the grocery store? I can't remember how we got it, but my mother got a whole set of glasses one year. Does anyone remember how you got stuff like that?

by Anonymousreply 65April 21, 2021 3:42 AM

I always wear a hat and gloves to the supermarket.

by Anonymousreply 66April 21, 2021 3:49 AM

I think only Joan Crawford types dressed up to go to the super market.

Though you did put on “nicer” clothes. At home, you wore casual clothes to do work or play and when you went “downtown” you put on better clothes for public.

I still do this actually...I seldom leave the house in my sloppy lounge pants and crummy sweats. I put on a cute outfit.

by Anonymousreply 67April 21, 2021 4:56 AM

I wear sweats around my house but I just can't go out in public wearing them. I have to put on a pair of pants or jeans. And I'm not **that** old, early 40s. I guess I'm just old-fashioned. Even if I wore sweatpants that were brand new, I would still feel like a low class slob if I wore them out of the house.

by Anonymousreply 68April 21, 2021 5:02 AM

You've all been had. Crawford simply didn't go to the super market. EEEEEYE went to the super market for her!

- Mamacita

by Anonymousreply 69April 21, 2021 10:36 AM

It’s curious that she called her “mamacita” when the woman was literally a German frau.

by Anonymousreply 70April 21, 2021 10:51 AM

"my mother got a whole set of glasses one year. Does anyone remember how you got stuff like that?"

Blowing the manager always helped.

by Anonymousreply 71April 21, 2021 9:51 PM

I wonder if green weirdos are collectibles....

by Anonymousreply 72April 21, 2021 11:48 PM

I love how Bette Davis had her number and always called her on her bullshit. Can you imagine those two together in a supermarket?

by Anonymousreply 73April 22, 2021 1:14 AM

This is more the reality of what women looked like in supermarkets in the 60s

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by Anonymousreply 74April 22, 2021 1:32 AM

My God how big was your hair after those curlers came out?

by Anonymousreply 75April 22, 2021 1:34 AM

Wasn't wearing curlers in public something only lower-class women did?

by Anonymousreply 76April 22, 2021 2:08 AM

Yes, R76. It still looks trashy.

by Anonymousreply 77April 22, 2021 9:44 AM

Elegant woman wore chic coverings over their curlers.

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by Anonymousreply 78April 22, 2021 1:45 PM

My grandma was very old time glamour like Joan Crawford and mean too. I remember even in the late 80s picking her up from the beauty parlour and she had a chic looking scarf tied around her new do.

by Anonymousreply 79April 22, 2021 2:15 PM

Damn, if only someone of Joan's gravity were still around to create trade films extolling the virtues of the move to big-box grocery retail.

"Where does it all come from? Like the fishes and loaves provided by our Lord the faithful snack on an assortment of mana from heaven. A pallet of water with enough plastic to choke a dolphin- God! Crates of Chef Boyardee-- a gift from God. A fourty-pack of toilet paper-- FROM GOD."

by Anonymousreply 80April 22, 2021 3:07 PM

[quote] It’s curious that she called her “mamacita” when the woman was literally a German frau.

Didn't she also have a dog named Mamacita, too? I think Joan was just always drunk and thinking about what she used to scream when her Mexican gardeners were making her cum.

by Anonymousreply 81April 22, 2021 3:12 PM

I can remember seeing a mom at the local pool using empty concentrated orange juice tubes (Donald Duck Brand) for curlers. Funny how some images get burned into your brain forever, as that would have been around 1975.

by Anonymousreply 82April 22, 2021 3:58 PM

Curling irons, hot rollers, and permanents all helped make the headful-of-curlers-in-public look unnecessary.

I do wish curly hair was back in style. It's a flattering look for a lot of women.

by Anonymousreply 83April 22, 2021 5:55 PM

I'm too young to remember curlers in public, but god do I remember the big frizzy perms of the 80s. Probably the ugliest hairstyle of all time.

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by Anonymousreply 84April 22, 2021 6:00 PM

I bet Joan shoplifted a bunch in her final years.

by Anonymousreply 85May 14, 2021 2:36 PM

Spanish Sawsages.

by Anonymousreply 86May 14, 2021 3:30 PM

"Do we think Joan ever bought any groceries in her life?"

I've heard that some rich people do their own grocery shopping, they're afraid that if the cook is let loose with the Bristol Farms credit card, she'll stock her own family's refrigerator with organic chateaubriand and white truffles. Besides, if Joan had only the one servant, she may have had to pitch in with a bit of domestic stuff herself on occasion, I mean she claimed to cook for her own dinner parties and IF that's true she may have wanted to shop for the groceries herself rather than send Mamacita back to return the inferior olives she got and get the *right* kind, with guests on the way and by now they knew to be punctual for Joan's dinner parties!

At that point, didn't Joan just have a small apartment in Los Angeles, while she officially lived in New York?

by Anonymousreply 87May 14, 2021 4:42 PM

Gawd, I HATE Joan's hat!

I hate the up-brim girlish hats that respectable women wore in the 1960s, they looked ridiculous on anyone over 21. Suzanne Pleshette wore one in "If this is Teusday, it must be Belgium", and she was in her 20s and it looked all wrong for a sophisticated grownup woman. And on sixty-ish Joan it looks ludicrous, like her hair wasn't in a fit state to be seen by her public, so she grabbed the little girl's hat and used it as cover.

The hippie chicks were wearing floppy hats back then, which weren't very attractive but which weren't as ugly as this thing.

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by Anonymousreply 88May 14, 2021 4:47 PM

her hat looks like it came off a small potty training toilet.

by Anonymousreply 89May 14, 2021 5:34 PM

Joan would've certainly done her own grocery shopping. She surely had to inspect every single item to be sure it was up to her standards, as she didn't trust anyone else to do a proper job.

by Anonymousreply 90May 14, 2021 7:18 PM

She checked every grape!

by Anonymousreply 91May 14, 2021 7:57 PM
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