“I have nothing but the best to say for A Woman’s Face,” she told an interviewer many years later. “It was a splendid script, and George [Cukor] let me run with it. I finally shocked both the critics and the public into realizing the fact that I really was at heart a dramatic actress. Great thanks to Melvyn Douglas [costarring with Joan for the third time]; I think he is one of the least appreciated actors the screen has ever used. His sense of underplay, subordination, whatever you call it, was always flawless. I say a prayer for Mr. Cukor every time I think of what A Woman’s Face did for my
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