Myles on Instagram: "80 years ago today Joan Crawford blazed across the screen in probably the greatest role of her career. “Mildred Pierce” would win her the only academy award of her career (although she certainly should have won more) It’s all too easy to dismiss Joan as the caricature portrayed in Mommie Dearest or as the queen of hagsploitation and camp that her career developed into. Mildred Pierce reminds us, in case we’d all forgotten, that she was also a brilliant bright star and a bloo

Joan Crawford on Instagram: "Joan Crawford and Louise Beavers in Paid (1930). Beavers played an uncredited role as a female prisoner while Crawford portrayed Mary Turner, a woman who was wrongfully imprisoned. Crawford and Beavers would again appear together that same year in the film Our Blushing Brides (1930). Beavers played an uncredited servant and Joan played Gerry March, a glamorous department store model."