Joan Crawford Collection, Volume 2 (Full Frame, Widescreen)

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Her characters suffered equally in gingham or fur. They used guts, glamour or sometimes a gun to move ahead in the world. Screen diva Joan Crawford plays a working girl on the rise in "Sadie McKee" and "Flamingo Road", swapping a maid's outfit for mink in one and a burlesque career for smalltown respectability in the other. In "Strange Cargo", she sails seas of romance and redemption with on-the-lam Clark Gable. No one can forget "A Woman's Face", with plastic surgery transforming Crawford's character from bitter beast to optimistic beauty. And "Torch Song" veers between backstage melodrama and unintended camp as fiery Broadway chanteuse Crawford finds love. Hollywood's torch burns brightly for this quintessential star. "Sadie McKee" - As working girl "Sadie McKee", Joan Crawford wears a maid's uniform. And as any Crawford fan knows, she'll shortly swap her white apron for black sable - even (or especially) if it means heartbreak along the way. In this rags-to-riches tale, Sadie wins the affections of the singer (Gene Raymond) she loves, the tycoon (Edward Arnold) she marries and the lawyer (Franchot Tone) she grew up with. That's a lot of on-screen romantic fire, and not all of it may be due to acting ability alone: The year after "Sadie McKee" was filmed, Crawford became Mrs. Franchot Tone. "Strange Cargo" - Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. Film giants Clark Gable and Joan Crawford team for the eighth and last time in this gripping story that explores the lures of the flesh and the transcendence of the spirit. Fighting each other and the elements, the stars imbue this provocative adventure with audacity, power and passion. "A Woman's Face" - When Anna Holm looks at aristocratic Torsten Barring, she sees romance.