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“She’s a Star” – an extract from Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror

Joan Crawford made her entrance on stage wielding an axe. In January 1964, at the age of fifty-eight, the Hollywood grande dame began an exhaustive tour across the United States, with personal appearances at big city and small town cinemas to publicize her new horror film, Strait-Jacket, directed by B-movie master William Castle. Attracting huge…