I believe I remember Christina Crawford saying she hated Torch Song
in her memoir Mommie Dearest. It was Joan's return to MGM and her first Technicolor film.
in her memoir Mommie Dearest. It was Joan's return to MGM and her first Technicolor film.
Dubbed by India Adams, Joan Crawford took a stab at singing her own vocals. The main ballad is "Follow Me." The posters are way cooler than the flick itself. They have a Bauhaus neo-noir tinge to them, I guess due to the fact that the protagonist's love interest is blind...?
Still, the promotions hinted to much more genius than Torch Song could possibly deliver. The film's reputation is that of high-camp/BAD-movie entertainment. YouTube "Two Faced Woman" for one of the worst musical numbers put on screen, followed by a frightful ripping-off-her-wig moment that is as intense as a Tallulah Bankhead drag act bidding a bar full of truckers one final adieu...or fuck you....
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