inexplicable leading ladies

[Dominic]

Here's my favorite:



Joan Crawford



This woman is the most inexplicable movie star of all-time. She's scary, she looks like Frankenstein after a gender reassignment, and, oh yeah, she couldn't act. There've been plenty of "odd" looking leading ladies, ones that aren't conventionally pretty: Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Kathy Bates, Amanda Plummer (all of them superb actresses) - but Crawford was just downright bizarre. I find it absolutely perfect that most people remember Crawford not for one of her many atrocious performances, but for Faye Dunaway's over-the-top lampooning of her in Mommie Dearest.