William Haines and Joan Crawford: Lifelong Friends

The extraordinary friendship between Hollywood legend Joan Crawford and the talented designer William Haines. Joan stood by him when he faced adversity at MGM due to his sexuality. Haines also decorated her house in Brentwood and apartment in New York.
My Link: linktr.ee/jcjoancrawford
Sources:
A Portrait of Joan - Joan Crawford
My Way of Life - Joan Crawford
Wisecracker - William J Mann
www.theconcludingchapterofcraw...
Various magazine archives and photos: lantern.mediahist.org
m.imdb.com
• Out of the Closet, Off...
Chapters:
0:00 Early MGM
3:54 A Slave To Fashion
4:10 Sally, Irene, and Mary
4:50 West Point
5:15 The Hollywood Revue
5:27 Spring Fever & The Duke Steps Out
6:36 The Stolen Jools
7:30 Crawford on Billy Haines
8:28 Interior design
9:02 Brentwood home
10:22 New York home
11:50 Later life

[@goldduxt]

William Haines can be considered one of Joan Crawford’s closest, lifelong friends.
Please check out The Concluding Chapter of Crawford’s website. Without them we wouldn’t have such a great, truthful, resource about Joan Crawford. Learn more in depth about the houses Haines decorated on their website.
Brentwood: www.theconcludingchapterofcrawford.com/homes_brentwood
New York: www.theconcludingchapterofcrawford.com/homes_fifthavenue
Both of Joan’s audiobooks are also on their website.

[@MegaFreh]

😂

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

She was a true friend, thick and thin as he was for her ❤

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

William Haines and Joan Crawford were friendship goals. They were so loyal to each other, even when they were going through a “bad spell” with each other.

[@philipcullen3962]

Fabulous Miss Crawford...2024....🎉🎉🎉

[@bejoyful]

Great admirer of Joan's incredible life and personality. Thank you for this video.

[@valsainking]

This is such a beautiful ode to their friendship. By the way, they both obviously looked gorgeous together, but that shot @3:48 is just breathtaking, especially of the 1920s Joan. Billy was no slouch though. He had a profile every bit as stunning as Joan's. Drop dead gorgeous styling. I absolutely love Billy Haines as Joan's eternal BFF. Only Ramon Novarro looked more gorgeous opposite Joan.
Anyway, just imagine being so young, carefree and impossibly beautiful, not to mention having your whole life ahead of you. Magical moment. The young Crawford was such a revelation, a true vision of youth, loveliness and beauty! 💕💕

[@lettylynton1932]

I enjoyed this immensely! 😀 It was very well edited, with many photos that were new to me. 😍😍 I had forgotten Joan was an extra on Slave of Fashion with Billy. It's often overlooked.

[@georgetteconstant9050]

Richmond VA native and successful post actor career, Billy Haines!

[@ambersemona9676]

New subscriber love this era, sometimes I think the 1940s etc was another past life of mine lol🫶🏼✌🏼

[@KristinaHoogs]

Another top notch video my friend! Joan’s loyalty to Billy is something that people overlook or may be unaware of. So thank you for bringing this more into light along with The Concluding Chapter of Crawford.

[@goldduxt]

Thank you so much. I am happy to share truthful information about Joan. So much false information out there, I hope these video essays help push more REAL facts into her legacy. ❤️❤️

[@luschlyfe]

As always, thanks for all the thoughtfulness that you put into this work. I suspect that Joan & Billy had one of-if not the- longest friendships in Hollywood. So nice to see it reflected here.

[@ToTheeOBlessedJoseph]

Thanks for another great vid 👍

[@philipdraper7284]

I always saw Joan as such a role model for a working life. She embraced new challenges with gusto and was a total stickler for details, in her professional, as well as personal life…..slightly neurotic? Perhaps. But most people are and she never took any of her successes for granted.

[@tomc8115]

Cranberry and Billie really were BFFs. Touching. Thank you.

[@robertamineo477]

Brava👏👏👏

[@louislamonte334]

Despite all the nasty and spiteful things said after her death Joan was the most loyal friend and she strikes me as gracious, thankful, thoughtful, thoroughly professional and basically a good-hearted lady.

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

Joan at one of her prettiest points @ 0:17 reading fan mail pic;

[@MissKosmic]

❤❤❤❤

[@MariaFernanda-dr7pv]

hi
Don't abandon Joan
put videos on the channel
instead of putting it in the shorts
Because in short, CZcams doesn't count as a video!

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

0:56 🥰🤗

[@joncampos-cw2tk]

He must’ve had very low standards