Colorized Joan Crawford 1945 Mildred Pierce

Here is a colorized Joan Crawford for a photo promoting her 1945 Mildred Pierce. Joan and her eyebrows left MGM for Warner Bros, home of Bette Davis, in 1943, desperately wanting to play the title role of a suffering mother in Mildred Pierce The movie was originally offered to Bette Davis who turned it down Joan got the role and won her first Oscar for best actress in that movie to the chagrin of Bette who already had two Oscars for Jezebel (1938) and Dangerous (1935).



Interesting to note that Joan Crawford feigned illness and absented herself from the 1946 Academy Award ceremony, fearing that she would lose to Ingrid Bergman for The Bells of St. Mary’s. After learning that she had won, Joan applied her makeup and invited the press into her bedroom as she accepted her Oscar in bed.