This film is nothing more than a showcase for Crawford's star power. Vintage Joan at her best. Forget the movie and just enjoy the beautiful panther of a woman she was.
Joan was a real talent! She started as a dancer and Wow does it show! She had star power, that's for sure. A beauty who got tougher as she got older. What a career and Quite a woman!
Joan's dancing partner was the great Charles Walters who also directed the film. Marc Wilder was originally cast but Joan was so nervous that she asked Walters to perform it with her. So the next year he gave Marc a solo with Debbie Reynolds in "The Tender Trap"
I read that Joan had the hots for Charles Walters. Joan told people that she was going to land Charles. However, people who knew Charles told Joan that Charles lived with a man in a relationship and would not be interested in Joan. Joan was not deterred and she proceeded to show up at his house unannounced with the intention of bedding him down. She tried every trick she knew to excite him but none of it worked. This was one man she could not get. Anyway that is how the story goes.
If he was also the director, it could also mean that Crawford did not have an on-set affair with him; as was her custom. I say could because, I think that would have made no difference to Crawford.
Carol Burnetts’ spoof “Torchy Song” was hilarious. I can’t watch this without thinking about her sendup, especially her delivery of “and spoil that line?” 😁
Crawford did have one of the best pair of legs in the business. She was a hoofer on Broadway in the 20s. Started dancing at a hotel in Kansas City after she quit school.
I know nothing about professional dancing, but my gut tells me this could be an accurate portrayal of the business of show business. Nothing personal against the performer, but brutally honest when necessary.
i have to admit it...did no know about Joan Crawford until yhe movie Mommy Dearest came out..but I have to say..this eoman was amazing...grat actress...dancer..and geourgeous
Here, in her 50's, she was still in great shape - can't deny that - and she moved very well - not a great dancer perhaps but she moved well. Many gals even today who are in their 50's probably wish they could have a figure like her's.
I think this mirrored the way she worked in real life. You get the job done or your out. She held herself to a very high standard and was unforgiving if she thought you weren't.
MGM never let a good song go to waste. This is the same recording of "You're All The World To Me"" that Astaire danced around the room and ceiling in "Royal Wedding".
Yes, thanks for the reminder. A wonderful song with a melody that's more appealing, in my opinion, when heard as an instrumental-only rather than with the somewhat cluttered lyrics.
Wow.. You all act like 50 is a dinosaur. Cher anyone? Marlene Dietrich in her 70s? Jane Fonda...what..80? I could go on but ..you get it. women can and do look great at all ages.
The song has had 2 names. Originally it was called "I wanna be a minstrel man" Then later for the Fred Astaire film it got changed to "You mean the World to me" as the composer had control he was at liberty to rename his music as and when suitable.
@@Juliaflo yes, I just posted on that, then saw your comment... It's hard to get Carols movie parodies out of your mind when you see the original film.. This one especially.
CHARLES WALTERS WAS THE DIRECTOR HERE..... ALSO...HE CAN BE SEEN AS JUDY GARLAND.S DANCE PARTNER IN SEVERAL EARLY 40'S FILMS...HE WENT ON DIRECT "GOOD NEWS" AMONG OTHER HITS...LOVE HIS DANCE STYLE...
Check out Carol Burnett's spoof on this movie! It's funny! Now I see where "the pose" came from.. lol.. the Carol Burnett spoof is called "Torchy Song" :)
Nunovia Gottdamnedbizzness Honey, the exercise in the boudoir was with other guys not a “wife.” The dancer is Charles Waters, the film’s director, who was Gay.
Yes, they often "recycled" their instrumental tracks in various films (especially during the '50s, when television forced the studio to "improvise", through restricted production budgets).
Cannot watch this without seeing Carol Burnett 'Torchy' parody. And dang if Carols legs---'and ruin that line?!' ---- Aren't just as perfect as Joan Crawfords. I love Crawford movies but shes perfect for parody, drag impersonation just like her nemesis, the equally great Bette Davis.
Oh c'mon Joan Crawford was an amazing actress too, her acting isn't old or theatrical with the years she was better and better. For me she's the epitome from Hollywood: Great acting, star power and broken mind :/
@@belenheredia2024 Don’t get me wrong. There was only one Bette. But Joan was a star. She knew what she wanted and got it. Right or wrong, she was one amazing broad! 😄
I wish we still had movie stars today. But there is no place for movie stars today. Streaming and digital phones killed off the moive star. These old great films were made for the cinema screen, not for one's digital phone. Shirley Mcclaine said it straight when she stated that streaming killed off any glamour the movie business ever had.
It wasn't blackface. The meaning of blackface - used to refer to the practice of wearing makeup to imitate the appearance of a Black person. The use of such makeup was associated with minstrel shows in the United States from the 1830s until the mid 20th century; it is now regarded as highly offensive. "he appeared in blackface"
This is part of the movie for real. They reused the music from the earlier film. Not uncommon. An instrumental version of Over the Rainbow was used in I Wake Up Screaming (1941). Music from Street Scene (1931) was reused for many films including again I Wake Up Screaming. The other films were Cry of the City, Kiss of Death, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Dark Corner, Gentlemen's Agreement and How to Marry a Millionaire.
I think her dancing is fine, but her facial expressions are so joyless and grim they contradict the music. Love Joan, but this is one of her starchy performances that can only be appreciated as camp.
Compare Joans version of this number with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in the Band Wagon. Joans character is so unpleasant that it's not possible to sympathize with her. Her triumphant return to MGM in Technicolor splendor a deliberate sabotage. She is in the wrong movie. Her musical talents are awful. Horrible, it should never have been finished when it started to stink the place up. Poor Joan.
I want her character to be unpleasant. Unpleasant and glamorous..that is my Joan. And she was unpleasant in many roles yet to come such as Queen Bee and Female on the Beach. Even when Joan acts nice, you know that she has an unpleasant agenda brewing.
There’s a glaring problem with this scene and in fact the whole the movie: there is not a character playing the show’s director. There are only stage hands, producers, chorus members, others. Is Jenny directing herself?
She was her own worst enemy. If she allowed herself to take more of a vulnerable position in her roles, and was not always looking to be a vamp, she would have had a more enduring career.
.. a more enduring career? She is one of Hollywood's longest-lasting stars with a 50-year career that started in 1925 and her star power never dimmed. It was cancer that cut her career short in 1977, not her lack of vulnerability. With the kind of timeless staying power Crawford possessed, I believe I would trust her instincts before I would trust anyone else's. Just saying. Even her less stellar roles have become iconic in other ways; i.e., nothing the woman ever did was forgettable since the viewing public is compelled to never look away. Few stars had that kind of fascinating hold on the public's imagination, both on screen and off.
Was this movie a hit? Was Mayer happy? I hope he promoted the hell out of her return to Metro. It was the least he could do. But I don't know enough about her career. I do know that She was the stars to end all stars. The only one to come close was Garbo but one can't compare the two, because Garbo's fame was of a different kind. She was from Europe and her type of fame couldn't last, she didn't adapt. But Joan was a worker bee.
The newly evolving enemy, television was just starting to kill of the movie star at that time of the film's release. Now the Internet and streaming has killed off the movie star for good.
It's interesting... she knows the moves and mostly executes them, yet there's nothing really graceful or artful about her dancing. It's all mechanical, like she's (literally) just going through the motions.
Joan made this film while Christopher was tied to his bed and Christina was home scrubbing floors that were already clean. Christina was also home preparing wire hangers for her mother.
By this time (they had lost their chain of Loew's Theaters, and were losing money and dropping longtime contract players, including Clark Gable) MGM was in a bad way financially. In a Cyd Charisse musical number that was cut from "The Band Wagon" they recycled the red and white costumes from "An American in Paris". In Ann Miller's Charleston tap number from "Deep in My Heart", they did the same thing with the 1920's costumes from "Singin' in the Rain". And "Music is Better than Words" from "It's Always Fair Weather" sung by Delores Gray, showed up two years later in the movie "Designing Woman", sung by Gray!
The same year, in the film "The Bandwagon" Cyd Charisse danced to the same recording of the song "Two Faced Woman" that Crawford did in this film, but Charisse's version was eliminated from "The Bandwagon's" release print. Cyd Charisse's elegant performance of the production number of this song was far superior to Crawford's performance of this number.
A bit over 50 and she looks like she's 30! This film was marred by a freakish number "Two Faced Woman", with Joan in blackface, of all things. That number should have been cut. She wanted to use her own singing voice, but MGM hired India Adams to dub her. This was her last film for MGM.
Why would they have cut it? So, the people that made this movie should've jumped in their magical time machine and appeared in the 21st century where everyone is soooo rigidly PC, taken some pointers, and gone back to 1953 to cut the blackface scene out? Look at Bill Maher's video clip on something called "presentism!"
Damn, and she was like 50 here, those legs!
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@Robert Lee, Countertenor Depending on what birth year you believe lol
She was 47 here
Fabulous miss Crawford.....2024.....will be still fabulous Miss Crawford 2025.......
1:33 "And spoil that line!? Tell Mr. Ellis he's paid to get around that leg... And smile or we'll get another boy" EXIT. Classic!
Karl Warden Carol Burnett’s parody was spot on!!!!
@@NS-vw8pm One San Antonian honoring another.
This reminded that Joan started as a dancer before she was an actress. what a talent!
This move was such a goddamn wreck. I could watch it for days...
But, the postwar 50's fashions were fabulous.
Ya, like a train wreck. You can't take your eyes off it.
This film is nothing more than a showcase for Crawford's star power. Vintage Joan at her best. Forget the movie and just enjoy the beautiful panther of a woman she was.
Joan was a real talent! She started as a dancer and Wow does it show! She had star power, that's for sure. A beauty who got tougher as she got older. What a career and Quite a woman!
Joan's dancing partner was the great Charles Walters who also directed the film. Marc Wilder was originally cast but Joan was so nervous that she asked Walters to perform it with her. So the next year he gave Marc a solo with Debbie Reynolds in "The Tender Trap"
I read that Joan had the hots for Charles Walters. Joan told people that she was going to land Charles. However, people who knew Charles told Joan that Charles lived with a man in a relationship and would not be interested in Joan. Joan was not deterred and she proceeded to show up at his house unannounced with the intention of bedding him down. She tried every trick she knew to excite him but none of it worked. This was one man she could not get. Anyway that is how the story goes.
That is an absolutely fascinating (and a bit comical) story. I hope every word of it is true! :-)
Charles Walters had one sweet ass!
@@jackanthony976 yes he lived with the Actor (and agent) John Darrow for 30 years.
Marc Wilder was also gay so Joanie wasn't getting any either way. 😂
If he was also the director, it could also mean that Crawford did not have an on-set affair with him; as was her custom. I say could because, I think that would have made no difference to Crawford.
So many good lines! "Gene, your the Dahnce director!" "And spoil that line?" Joan ,what an ACTRESS!
The dancing “boy” was the film’s director Charles Walters, a former Broadway dancer. A friend of Dorothy. 🌈
Nice and perky!
He was Judy Garland's favorite director. she demanded Busby Berkeley be replaced by Walters, and he was.
Carol Burnetts’ spoof “Torchy Song” was hilarious. I can’t watch this without thinking about her sendup, especially her delivery of “and spoil that line?” 😁
YES & Thank You! Carol Burnett's 'Torchy Song' was BRILLIANT!
She was incredibly graceful and limber. An excellent dancer. Incredible figure!
I'm watching the film now, love her intense, no bs performance in this movie
Stunning queen....❤❤❤
14 year's since she had 💃 on screen pretty credible job!
Crawford did have one of the best pair of legs in the business. She was a hoofer on Broadway in the 20s. Started dancing at a hotel in Kansas City after she quit school.
I know nothing about professional dancing, but my gut tells me this could be an accurate portrayal of the business of show business. Nothing personal against the performer, but brutally honest when necessary.
i have to admit it...did no know about Joan Crawford until yhe movie Mommy Dearest came out..but I have to say..this eoman was amazing...grat actress...dancer..and geourgeous
Lydia E Vazquez Ikr. I didn't know her until the show, FEUD
Here, in her 50's, she was still in great shape - can't deny that - and she moved
very well - not a great dancer perhaps but she moved well. Many gals even today who are
in their 50's probably wish they could have a figure like her's.
Actually she was 47 but even for that age she looked great.
What kind of dancing do you think they did then ? No need to downplay her performance.
I see an excellent dancer!
I think this mirrored the way she worked in real life. You get the job done or your out. She held herself to a very high standard and was unforgiving if she thought you weren't.
Them legs!!!
I watch the parody of this from The Carol Burnett Show just the other night. How cool to see the actual movie! Thank you
MGM never let a good song go to waste. This is the same recording of "You're All The World To Me"" that Astaire danced around the room and ceiling in "Royal Wedding".
Yes, thanks for the reminder. A wonderful song with a melody that's more appealing, in my opinion, when heard as an instrumental-only rather than with the somewhat cluttered lyrics.
"and spoil that line?"....our Joan took no prisoners....
It was. Released in 1953, it marked her return to MGM after a decade.
Multi talented.
+victortalkingmachine Look at the heels on Joan's shoes. Those have got to be at least 4 inches if not more.
That was absolutely wonderful!
I love how Crawford breaks character with that grin. Watch closely, you'll see it.
Wow. what a body!! I wonder how old she was when she made this?
47-49
48
50
Wow..
You all act like 50 is a dinosaur. Cher anyone? Marlene Dietrich in her 70s? Jane Fonda...what..80? I could go on but ..you get it.
women can and do look great at all ages.
49 years old. Still killing it.
@cuzitsnecessary I know! Costumed perfectly to show them off too!
ALSO, THE MUSIC IS FROM "ROYAL WEDDING" SOUNDTRACK WHEN FRED ASTAIRE DANCED ON THE CEILING....
The song has had 2 names. Originally it was called "I wanna be a minstrel man" Then later for the Fred Astaire film it got changed to "You mean the World to me" as the composer had control he was at liberty to rename his music as and when suitable.
Yes...l couldnt remember if it was Band Wagon.....yep...same great music
Gene, the choreographer, is a real choreographer, Eugene Loring, one of the greatest ever.
Carol Burnett did a delicious parody of this that Joan saw and hated,
It was called 'Torchy Song. Lest you are interested, both the Misses Burnett and Crawford hailed from San Antonio, Texas.
@@Juliaflo yes, I just posted on that, then saw your comment...
It's hard to get Carols movie parodies out of your mind when you see the original film..
This one especially.
She can sing she can dance she can act and she's a beautiful woman and she has a sense of humor
Extremely peculiar choreography.
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"And SMILE, or we get another boy!"
That women was a great dancer and great legs
Great legs!!!!!
Perfection
The fact is that she was 47 in this film. It has been determined, through U.S. Census Bureau records, that she was born in 1906.
1904.
She looked like an amazingly beautiful drag queen
LOL!! "And spoil that line?!?"
This and Queen Bee were Joan at the height of her drag look.
How dare you
Drag queens look like uglier versions of her 😁
@@remyparaskovia5499 it wasn’t an insult but hey ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ honesty sometimes hurts. Lol
Yep!
Watching in 2021
CHARLES WALTERS WAS THE DIRECTOR HERE..... ALSO...HE CAN BE SEEN AS JUDY GARLAND.S DANCE PARTNER IN SEVERAL EARLY 40'S FILMS...HE WENT ON DIRECT "GOOD NEWS" AMONG OTHER HITS...LOVE HIS DANCE STYLE...
JIM RICK stop shouting at everyone
@@josephhaynes3017 GET A LIFE....
She was over 45 years old in this movie, and had the legs of a 25 year old! She was fit!!
Check out Carol Burnett's spoof on this movie! It's funny! Now I see where "the pose" came from.. lol.. the Carol Burnett spoof is called "Torchy Song" :)
Lol I really thought carol made that pose up for laughs lol but not true. I’ve never seen the movie.
good music
@JudygarlandRulez15 My pleasure!
@neneorganico Well, she carries herself like she's 10'!
Love Joan
ALSO..THE DANCE MUSIC WAS LIFTED FROM THE 1951 ASTAIRE NUMBER IN "ROYAL WEDDING" WHERE HE DANCED ON THE CEILING...
@je1rowe My pleasure!
Whoa! Can the waistband on the pants of the dancer be any higher? I wouldn't put his waist size past a 26.
HA! I've seen this movie 50 times and I've never once noticed his waist until you pointed it out - I think you're exactly right.. size 26!!
It's a dance belt
Look it up
Nunovia Gottdamnedbizzness Honey, the exercise in the boudoir was with other guys not a “wife.”
The dancer is Charles Waters, the film’s director, who was Gay.
JOAN DID A GUEST SPOT IN A DORIS DAY FILM, "IT'S A GREAT FEELING" IN 1949 THAT WAS IN COLOR...
Joan's dance partner here is the film's director, Charles Walters.
Yes, they often "recycled" their instrumental tracks in various films (especially during the '50s, when television forced the studio to "improvise", through restricted production budgets).
Joan's sensational figure!!!😮
Cannot watch this without seeing Carol Burnett 'Torchy' parody. And dang if Carols legs---'and ruin that line?!' ----
Aren't just as perfect as Joan Crawfords. I love Crawford movies but shes perfect for parody, drag impersonation just like her nemesis, the equally great Bette Davis.
I'm watching this and all of a sudden Carol Burnett makes a lot more sense to
No. Her cameo in the 1949 "It's a Great Feeling" is in color.
@bervy8 I believe I did!
@cda345 What legs!
@JohnnyGNV Bottom line...we love Joan!
@bervy8 Can't find it either..
Her fucking legs were incredible!!!!!
There are those legs!
I loved when Cher did a takeoff on the old Sonny and Cher show!
I have no idea!
Bette Davis might have been an actress. But Joan Crawford was a movie star.
Oh c'mon Joan Crawford was an amazing actress too, her acting isn't old or theatrical with the years she was better and better. For me she's the epitome from Hollywood: Great acting, star power and broken mind :/
@@belenheredia2024 Don’t get me wrong. There was only one Bette. But Joan was a star. She knew what she wanted and got it. Right or wrong, she was one amazing broad! 😄
I wish we still had movie stars today. But there is no place for movie stars today. Streaming and digital phones killed off the moive star. These old great films were made for the cinema screen, not for one's digital phone. Shirley Mcclaine said it straight when she stated that streaming killed off any glamour the movie business ever had.
THIS SONG WAS FIRST USED IN "ROYAL WEDDING"......WHEN FRED ASTAIRE DANCED ON THE CEILING.....AND THAT IS CHARLES WALTERS AS HER PARTNER....
If you think this is something just wait until you see her in blackface singing Two Faced Woman.
It wasn't blackface.
The meaning of blackface - used to refer to the practice of wearing makeup to imitate the appearance of a Black person. The use of such makeup was associated with minstrel shows in the United States from the 1830s until the mid 20th century; it is now regarded as highly offensive.
"he appeared in blackface"
@@Garsons-oq4lh Yes, it was blackface. Why else have your face in black makeup if you aren't trying to appear a darker color?
@@Garsons-oq4lh Hilarious!
@@jaydavis8394Look up Judy Garland blackface. Judy's is the definition of blackface, not Joan's.
This is the exact soundtrack that Fred Astaire used to dance on the ceiling. Did this piece actually make the cut of this film or is this an outtake?
This is part of the movie for real. They reused the music from the earlier film. Not uncommon. An instrumental version of Over the Rainbow was used in I Wake Up Screaming (1941). Music from Street Scene (1931) was reused for many films including again I Wake Up Screaming. The other films were Cry of the City, Kiss of Death, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Dark Corner, Gentlemen's Agreement and How to Marry a Millionaire.
What’s with all these bits of clips... Show us the darn full movie! What the use of this??
I think her dancing is fine, but her facial expressions are so joyless and grim they contradict the music. Love Joan, but this is one of her starchy performances that can only be appreciated as camp.
Chris N Jenny Stewart was a hardened Broadway star. I feel like Joan's facial expression was for the character.
i noticed that too. but there are moments where it appears she breaks character with a smirk or smile.
That’s why we love it.
Compare Joans version of this number with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in the Band Wagon. Joans character is so unpleasant that it's not possible to sympathize with her. Her triumphant return to MGM in Technicolor splendor a deliberate sabotage. She is in the wrong movie. Her musical talents are awful. Horrible, it should never have been finished when it started to stink the place up. Poor Joan.
I want her character to be unpleasant. Unpleasant and glamorous..that is my Joan. And she was unpleasant in many roles yet to come such as Queen Bee and Female on the Beach. Even when Joan acts nice, you know that she has an unpleasant agenda brewing.
I'm sure the guy not being able to get around her leg was Christina's fault. It's always Christina's fault.
🤣
There’s a glaring problem with this scene and in fact the whole the movie: there is not a character playing the show’s director. There are only stage hands, producers, chorus members, others. Is Jenny directing herself?
She was her own worst enemy. If she allowed herself to take more of a vulnerable position in her roles, and was not always looking to be a vamp, she would have had a more enduring career.
.. a more enduring career? She is one of Hollywood's longest-lasting stars with a 50-year career that started in 1925 and her star power never dimmed. It was cancer that cut her career short in 1977, not her lack of vulnerability. With the kind of timeless staying power Crawford possessed, I believe I would trust her instincts before I would trust anyone else's. Just saying. Even her less stellar roles have become iconic in other ways; i.e., nothing the woman ever did was forgettable since the viewing public is compelled to never look away. Few stars had that kind of fascinating hold on the public's imagination, both on screen and off.
Are you nuts? 40+ years in Hollywood as a woman then. 🤬
Sorry, she became camp.
Beyond camp, like most of La Crawford’s movies.
brave woman, she was 49 or 50 in this picture,and showing legs, not so bad,
Aubrey Caraballo brave for showing leg at 49 or 50? Lol.
Just curious.... was this Joan's first colour movie since the debacle called Ice Follies?
dellotti actually it was The Hollywood Revue of 1929 with technicolor sequences. All of the cast sang Singin in the Rain
She had a cameo sending up herself in It's A Great Feeling (1949), which was in colour.
@tallpaul521 I know it!
Is it me or do both dance "boys" look the same?
Was this movie a hit? Was Mayer happy? I hope he promoted the hell out of her return to Metro. It was the least he could do. But I don't know enough about her career. I do know that She was the stars to end all stars. The only one to come close was Garbo but one can't compare the two, because Garbo's fame was of a different kind. She was from Europe and her type of fame couldn't last, she didn't adapt. But Joan was a worker bee.
The newly evolving enemy, television was just starting to kill of the movie star at that time of the film's release. Now the Internet and streaming has killed off the movie star for good.
Tough but fair.
A young Harry Morgan with the pipe ...
Hard to believe most of the cast were born in the 1900s.
Soooooo, anyone born any time up to 1999 are somehow a marvel of nature to be alive in the 2000s? Ha ha ha
she was big...is!!!
It's interesting... she knows the moves and mostly executes them, yet there's nothing really graceful or artful about her dancing. It's all mechanical, like she's (literally) just going through the motions.
Joan made this film while Christopher was tied to his bed and Christina was home scrubbing floors that were already clean. Christina was also home preparing wire hangers for her mother.
Oh the sweet memories of childhood.
Joan may have been coordinated but she lacked grace. Her movements are so mechanical
May I remind you that Joan was not a professionally trained dancer, not even ballet. She can be forgiven.
absolutely misled, was a pro!
Couldn’t M-G-M , afford original dance music? They lifted this music from an Fred Astaire musical
By this time (they had lost their chain of Loew's Theaters, and were losing money and dropping longtime contract players, including Clark Gable) MGM was in a bad way financially. In a Cyd Charisse musical number that was cut from "The Band Wagon" they recycled the red and white costumes from "An American in Paris". In Ann Miller's Charleston tap number from "Deep in My Heart", they did the same thing with the 1920's costumes from "Singin' in the Rain". And "Music is Better than Words" from "It's Always Fair Weather" sung by Delores Gray, showed up two years later in the movie "Designing Woman", sung by Gray!
Here are both versions, side by side!
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You all should take a look of Carol Burenet's parody of this movie It's much better than the real ONE!
And to think Cyd Charisse was scheduled to do a version of this movie and nasty old Joan did it instead.
The same year, in the film "The Bandwagon" Cyd Charisse danced to the same recording of the song "Two Faced Woman" that Crawford did in this film, but Charisse's version was eliminated from "The Bandwagon's" release print. Cyd Charisse's elegant performance of the production number of this song was far superior to Crawford's performance of this number.
She could never dance or sing. She was very good with other parts of her body lol
A bit over 50 and she looks like she's 30! This film was marred by a freakish number "Two Faced Woman", with Joan in blackface, of all things. That number should have been cut. She wanted to use her own singing voice, but MGM hired India Adams to dub her. This was her last film for MGM.
Why would they have cut it? So, the people that made this movie should've jumped in their magical time machine and appeared in the 21st century where everyone is soooo rigidly PC, taken some pointers, and gone back to 1953 to cut the blackface scene out? Look at Bill Maher's video clip on something called "presentism!"