Joan Crawford's Hair - She Didn't Love Lucy

In 1968 Joan was on an episode of The Lucy Show, playing herself.  Lucy is in Hollywood and sees Joan scrubbing her own floor and so thinks Joan is destitute - and Lucy plots how to help Joan.  Not used to performing live, Joan looks shaken at the very beginning of the show, but then her sails fill with wind and she becomes JOAN CRAWFORD ... and the rest is TV history.

They didn't get along.  Joan thought Lucy was condescending to her, and at one point humiliated her by putting her through a complicated dance routine, and then canceling it at the last moment, telling Joan  that she couldn't dance.  Joan had gotten her start in the 1920s in Kansas City as a spirited hootchie kootchie dancer - went on to win many Charleston and Black Bottom dance contests and had a room full of trophies.  She was a Broadway chorus girl when she was trucked off to Hollywood with a gaggle of other girls, and soon became Miss MGM.  Then she became Joan Crawford (a name MGM gave her) and became a famous star of silent films as THE FLAPPER.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought Joan was the icon of the era, and said of her, "She was the best example of the flapper, the girl you see at smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living."

But those were the good ole days for Joan.