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a kennedy

(36,341 posts) Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:32 AM Oct 2025

Is Joan Crawford ALWAYS shot with shades of light on her face??? I mean in almost all her movies when the

camera is on her it’s always in shadows and light. Or is that just because the movies are in Black and White. I don’t notice it on the other actors. Watching Daisy Kenyon. 86% tomatoes, 58% popcornmeter. Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda are in it as well.

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Is Joan Crawford ALWAYS shot with shades of light on her face??? I mean in almost all her movies when the (Original Post) a kennedy Oct 2025 OP

Lightening is everything. Our Hollywood Golden Age actresses understood its importance. Polly Hennessey Oct 2025 #1

Many star were insistent about PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2025 #2

Polly Hennessey

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1. Lightening is everything. Our Hollywood Golden Age actresses understood its importance.

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Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:15 AM

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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. Many star were insistent about

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Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:47 AM

Oct 2025

how they were photographed, and only photographing one side of the face was (perhaps still is) common.

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