Reading Dave Thompson's Black and White and Blue history of porn movies, I was intrigued by the chapter detailing the porno careers of various soon-to-be superstars, most of which have been ferocious denied by either the stars or their estates. The Marilyn Monroe ones that occasionally surface, and lead the mainstream media a merry dance, were long ago disproven.
But Joan Crawford?
Apparently she made a string of pornos when she was first struggling to break into Hollywood, and she didn't do a very good job of silencing the people who saw them, Thompson quotes actor Ted Jordan, as he recalled discussing Crawford’s past with the young (and then-unknown) Marilyn Monroe, in the late 1940s. “Hell," Monroe told him. "I didn’t fuck six guys in a stag movie like she did….”
There's a handful of titles associated with Crawford's appetite for fame... "The Plumber" and "The Casting Couch" among them... and Crawford worked furiously to disassociate herself from them, even calling upon her studio's legal department in one battle. But now it seems that the denials were not as cast iron as we thought, and Crawford's supporters hoped! Because here they (possibly) come....
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