August 25 movie: When Ladies Meet. Joan Crawford plays a writer fooling around with her publisher. Robert Taylor wants to be her boyfriend, so he arranges for her to meet the publisher's wife (Greer Garson).
I've seen this movie before, and what I love about it is the unintentional comedy. There's this constant undeserved adulation that is showered on Joan Crawford. Her character is deluded and selfish, and untalented too from what we learn about her book. And yet everyone in the movie treats her like perfection incarnate. Every word out of her mouth is the wittiest thing ever, she's the most beautiful, the most graceful, the best writer, etc etc.
Greer Garson's character is ten times the woman as Crawford's character, but all the other characters have been brainwashed into seeing it otherwise. It's this bizarro-land attitude I would expect from a vanity project where the star also produced and directed and did the soundtrack. Strange to see it in a studio picture.
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