Sure Nick helped. Like Elwood P. Dowd drinking with Harvey.

With icepack on head, decorating tree: "Next person who says Merry Christmas to me, I'll kill 'em!". In 1934!

Bullet-proof girdle, Mama?

Always fun to check out the supporting casts.

First he kills John Steed, then Nick Charles?!

Check Joan out early in her career, pre-code - adorable!

Eve Arden! Be an athletic supporter…

Monty! Young Monty! Mount me!

Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone, Ship of Fools.

William Wyler.

Taylor & Burton used to yacht from film set to film set to avoid paying income taxes anywhere, surrounded by fine art, finer jewelry & poop from tiny untrained dogs on the broadloom, plus lots of kids.

Them having to reunion in theatre tours didn't help.

Burton was criticized for hooking up with Taylor (that scandolous cash cow!). By the late '60's their films generated enormous box office. Then came the fall…

Dame Elizabeth was Queen of the Tabloids long before Burton - he wasn't offered $1 million to star in Cleopatra.

Joan was sacked by MGM, did it all over again @ Warner's. She won her Oscar for a role Davis refused.

Marion retired from films & later supported Hearst when he was struggling.

Myrna Loy joked Joan needed a limo to cross the street.

NEITHER of those titles is reliable, tabloids with covers.

One of her last projects was a Twilight Zone episode directed by young Steven Spielberg. He was one of the organizers of Joan's Hollywood memorial, along with John Wayne, Robert Young, Myrna Loy, George Cukor. Christina attended also.

Joan's friend Myrna Loy does an EPIC takedown of Christina in her memoirs. Myrna & Joan had met as chorus girls in 1925, a decade later they were swapping starring roles @ MGM. By the '60's, Myrna was touring with Christina in Barefoot In the Park. Myrna makes it quite clear Crawford Jr. was NOT easy to work with. …