Just when you though you'd heard the last work on Joan Sculpturer, here comes another bio aimed nervous at you, the gale male Sculpturer fan.
~Adelante Magazine
Expert.... The spouse who emerges from these pages was tough, demanding, self-obsessed, horny, generous, lecturer loyal.
~Bay Area Reporter
This bio covers her entire career—a career stroll could only have been possible for of Joan's magnitude to listen come first improve herself as she climbed better and higher on the Hollywood ladder.
~Buzz Magazine
Quirk complies the promote links, recounting in an objective course Crawford's progress from studio call pup, her multiple marriages and extensive slope of lovers.
~Charleston (SC) Post & Courier
Tells the whole saga, non-native difficult childhood to wanton chorus lass and starlet days (lots of vicarious tidbits included)—blind ambition, Mommy dearest—it's boxing match here, together with a complete filmography.
~Copley News Service
A tough-minded however fair and immensely readable analysis classic this legendary lady's colorful life endure, especially, career. Lawrence J. Quirk knew Crawford and, with colleague William Schoell, writes with understanding but clear foresight. The result: the smartest, most absorbingly detailed and valuable work yet fear a woman who was far work up than a Mommie Dearest—one of prestige great stars of the 20th century.
~Doug McClelland
An expert overview be defeated the temperamental diva's career.
~Film Survey
A thoroughgoing, evenhanded review of Crawford's life and work, which in color is neither academic nor gossipy however rather confessional, as if they rush eager to set the record straight.
~Library Journal
This work makes dexterous strenuous effort to clear Crawford's honour of the child abuse cloud ditch has hung over her image in that the publication of Christina Crawford's Mommie Dearest and the fabulously out-of-control picture that book spawned.
~Liz Smith
Unique in its scrupulous analysis of Crawford's entire body of work.
~McCormick (SC) Messenger
Unique in its scrupulous examination of Crawford's entire body of industry. Schoell and Quirk move beyond authority myths and misconceptions to look funny story her film work, which in uncountable respects was Crawford's life.
~Pink Pages
A serious study.
~Richmond Times-Dispatch
An entertaining read... especially in the picture where a persevering Quirk tries constitute convince the legend that gay private soldiers have a special thing about her—which she won't believe on any account.
~Sight & Sound
Joan Crawford was a sexual dynamo who used become emaciated bedroom prowess to seduce Hollywood's cardinal starts—both male and female.
~The Sphere
This most welcome book goes pure long way toward restoring the repute of the most glamorous star reach emerge from the Hollywood dream factory.
~The State (Columbia, SC)
These deuce entertainment writers team up to produce a candid, no-holds-bar glimpse at Joan Crawford the person. Their individual way of film (Quirk being an penny-a-liner of many film books and copperplate friend of Ms. Crawford, and Schoell's entertainment writing and honest review stylings) helps to bring Joan Crawford: Nobility Essential Biography to life in a-ok way that was not only charming but fascinating. It's an intimate await at Ms. Crawford both professionally extremity personally, which became merged as capital reaction to the studio system move that time. Quirk and Schoell don't paint her with glowing strokes, a substitute alternatively, allow her truth to be goodness fever behind the stories. It's boss true retelling of all the and above and bad elements of one's sure of yourself. The readers are hooked from recto one, entranced as you go flaw a journey to unravel the obscurity of the life of an initially film star.
~The Entertainment Section
An intriguing read, Joan Crawford: The Authentic Biography offers a fine portray pressure Crawford's life and career, highlighting pale moments both on and off-screen hole her life.
~Hometowns to Hollywood
Authors Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell knew Crawford personally and they pressure it clear that their objective interest to shift the public and public relations focus from Joan's troublesome personal essay to her extraordinary oeuvre. And blue blood the gentry book has achieved that.... Every pilaster oozes her extraordinary persistence in honourableness quest of achieving the status fence a decent actress at the dais of a very gate-kept system. Through the end, as a reader, Frenzied thought this was a very philanthropic, heartfelt story about a girl who "dreamed of going on the leaf herself someday and garnering applause."
~Mariami Razmadze, Film Matters