Joan Crawford Collection

Four-disc set includes: Grand Hotel (1932)Comedy and drama are mixed in 1932's Best Picture Oscar-winner, based on William Drake's play that was adapted from the novel "Menschen I'm Hotel" by Vicki Baum. Welcome to Grand Hotel-a beautiful Berlin establishment filled with palatial splendor and occupied by a galaxy of M-G-M's greatest stars, including Greta Garbo as a fading ballerina, John Barrymore as a roguish baron, Lionel Barrymore as a dying accountant, and Joan Crawford as a stenographer. With Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone. 113 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Women (1939)Clare Booth Luce's celebrated play receives a sterling treatment from director George Cukor and an all-star (and all-female) cast. Soap opera and screwball comedy collide as Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) finds her marriage in trouble when shopgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) gets friendly with her man, while scandal maven Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) spreads the word. Features a fashion show sequence shot in color. With Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Marjorie Main. 133 min. BW&C/Rtg: NR Possessed (1947)An emotionally fragile practical nurse (Joan Crawford) is engaged by a wealthy employer (Raymond Massey) to care for his invalid wife, but when their neighbor (Van Heflin) turns out to be the ex-lover she has never gotten over, her psyche just might finally fracture... with tragic consequences for all involved. Moody melodrama, unrelated to Crawford's same-named '31 vehicle, co-stars Geraldine Brooks, Nana Bryant, Stanley Ridges. 108 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Damned Don't Cry (1950)Joan Crawford stars in this riveting character study as Ethel Whitehead, a woman who will stop at nothing to escape her impoverished lifestyle. Told in flashback, the story sees Ethel leaving the small Texas factory town where she grew up and getting involved with a succession of men, eventually winding up in the middle of a deadly confrontation between her gangster boyfriend and his arch-rival. David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith co-star. 103 min. BW/Rtg: NR Standard (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH).