Saturday 30 July 2016

The Big Rock Candy Mountain with Joan Crawford

With the Joan Crawford Blogathon at The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood still running, I'm using today's post for a bit of bonus entertainment. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a short film from 1969 (the same year she did "Eyes") featuring Joan Crawford telling us all about the wonders of supermarkets on behalf of Pepsi:


My favourite part is when she tells the little girl to eat her toy. That's confusing and hilarious.

I thought you might also dig this episode of classic radio series The Black Museum. Hosted by Orson Welles, it's kind of a proto Night Gallery about the Scotland Yard museum of crime. Every week, Orson picks out a sinister object on display and tells us it's blood-soaked history.

This episode is from 1952 and is called "The Brass Button":




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