Her life had been a battle between the fantasy of movie stardom and the intrusion of reality—mostly in the form of failed marriages, disappointing love affairs and the constant terror of losing her professional status. Her life’s work had been the maintenance of the image she herself had created—of Joan Crawford the star. This had allowed her virtually no time to discover who she was; as a result, many who knew her (and more who did not) insisted that there was no authentic person behind the artificial creation. That was not merely smug and presumptuous—it was also dead wrong. NO OTHER STAR IN
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