Description: Jazz Baby - The Shocking Story of Joan Crawford's Tormented Childhood by David Houston , copyright 1983 1st Edition This hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition - Book is in very good condition with no torn or missing pages ... - dustjacket is in very good condition with no wear.... Excellent Condition (see photos) A revealing account of Joan Crawford's early life and rise to stWardom centers on her childhood in an impoverished rural Bible Belt town with a cruel, sadistic mother and a loving but weak stepfather hat happens to all the trivial, third-hand, dull information that professional biographers leave out of celebrity life-stories? Well, some of it turns up in tepid little books like this one--which pieces together ""published material of Joan Crawford's pre-Hollywood years"" and interviews with her hometown's ""old-timers"" and ""descandants who have kept their 'Joan Crawford stories' alive as part of family histories."" Unsurprisingly, then, the result is a thin assemblage of hearsay and gossip about ""a Cinderella who found desperate ways to make do without a fairy godmother. . ."" Back in pre-1920 Oklahoma and Missouri she was Lucille ""Billie"" Cassin--with a sometimes-cruel mother and a beloved stepfather who wandered away. Little Billie went looking for ""Daddy Cassin."" She felt like an outcast at school. She hurt her foot. She flirted with boys, tried college for a while, crashed society dances, and--the only vaguely ""shocking"" item here--did a nude dance for a vending-machine film when desperate for cash to finance her attempts to make it big in Chicago or N.Y. ""'She was just a little girl dancing,' a neighbor remembered."" ""Like the heroine of The Red Shoes, Billie--driven as always by that haunting fear of the future--had to dance till she died."" Zzzzzz. . . . Also listed Gloria Swanson SIGNED, Ginger Rogers SIGNED, Veronica Lake, Tyrone Power, William Powell, Norma Talmadge, Hurrell, Myrna Loy Marlene Dietrich SIGNED, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford SIGNED & other Hollywood Items!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered on all items
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Book Title: Jazz Baby
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Modified Item: No
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Publication Year: 1983
Type: Biography
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: David Houston
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Topic: Entertainment, Film, Movies, Performing Arts, Television, Movie & Television
Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
