Myrna Loy and Rosalind Russell were both life long friends of Joan's, and they both seem very cool

You should read the book, Joan and Bette a Divine Feud. It is a quick read and fun.

I thought Barbara Stanwyck was Joan's best friend. None of the other Hollywood leading ladies would take Joan's role as she was friends with everyone else, but Bette and Olivia. And Bette's biographer said that that friendship was one-sided with Bette using Olivia.

I read the book Bette and Joan, the Divine Feud, and came over to Joan's side. Bette hated Joan for years because of Franchot Tone, who was an Eastern and real actor like her, but he was in love with Joan. There is a class element too as Bette's father was a lawyer and she attended boarding schools. And Joan was…

despite Joan giving the Oscar to Anne, Bette maintained for years that Joan kept it

of course, no one really knows - but some things from the book have been proven false like the rose garden scene. The rose garden was cut down and replaced with a WW2 "victory garden" in front of movie cameras. Most of Joan's friends and her husband from that time all take Joan's side. My favorite is Shirley Tempe…

Honestly I don't know much about the Lennon apologizing part. I feel like if he truly acknowledged how awful he was to Cynthia, he would have left some money to Julian and tried to have been an okay father to him.

I agree that we should be skeptical of some of Christine's claims. Most of the people around during the time do not support her version and some things have been proven false. For example, the rose garden scene - the rose garden was cut down during the war in front of publicity cameras, to show Joan planting a…