deep and enduring—a short list would have to include George himself; Haines and Shields; Anita Loos, who had written a quartet of important Crawford movies; Nate and Frances Spingold; John Springer; Dore Freeman, a young man for whom Joan had found a job at Metro and who became a lifelong confidant; Genie Chester, whom she had met in New York decades earlier … their names were legion. “She never
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