Zany Joan

In 1928, Joan Crawford became a star with her role as Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont, 1928). The film and her role struck a chord with the Zeitgeist. Joan played a spunky and wild-but-good flapper and he became a symbol of modern 1920s style femininity. She became a rival for Clara Bow, the original It girl, and Hollywood's foremost flapper. A stream of hits followed in which Joan played the free-spirited, all-American girl, and her delicious postcards at the time presented Joan at her zaniest. However, a fox loses its hair, but not its pranks...


French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, no. 633. Photo: MGM. Joan Crawford in Our Modern Maidens (Jack Conway, 1929).


French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 663. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery in Untamed (Jack Conway, 1929). Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, no. 664. Photo: MGM. Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont, 1928).


Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 5840. Photo: MGM.


French postcard by Europe, no. 503. Photo: MGM.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1417/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Loew-Goldwyn-Mayer.


Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56546 Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Photo: MGM. Caption: Gibson Gowland & Joan Crawford, USA, 1927. Gibson Gowland and Joan Crawford in Rose-Marie (Lucien Hubbard, 1928).


Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56554. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Photo: MGM.


Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56558. Photo: MGM / Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Caption: Joan Crawford & Dorothy Sebastian, Santa Monica, 1929.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4529/1, 1929-1930. Photo: MGM.


With Douglas Fairbanks jr. German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 4628/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4906/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5349/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.


With Douglas Fairbanks jr. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5629/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.


German postcard by pwe Verlag, München (Munich). From the Prestel book 'Fashion in Film'. Caption: Cliquot the poodle, Joan Crawford, Gertrude Wheeler during a break in shooting The Damned Don't Cry, 1950. Directed by Vincent Sherman. Costumes by Sheila O'Brian. Collection: Carla Bosch.