# 90: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: The Middle Years (Mildred Pierce to Johnny Guitar)

An episode of [You Must Remember This](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/858124601), 30 Aug 2016, 48 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8253409/8253409_2026-04-14-121409.192.mp3?rssID=6337

Joan Crawford struggled through what she called her “middle years,” the period during her 40s before she remade herself from aging, slumping MGM deadweight into a fleet, journeywoman powerhouse who starred in some of the most interesting films about adult womanhood of the 1940s and 1950s. That revival began with Mildred Pierce (for which Crawford won her only Oscar), and included a number of films, such as Daisy Kenyon and Johnny Guitar, directed by men who would later be upheld as auteurs, subversively making personal art within the commercial industry of Hollywood.

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