January 24,
1940
Louella Parsons
reports that
Joan is convalescing after a
flu
attack.
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February 12.
Joan ill and "unable
to rehearse"
for Susan and God.
March 8 - 9. MGM files show that
Joan "looked ill and...we had to
shoot around her" during filming of
Susan and God.
March 18.
Joan has severe cold
*
and is unable to work
during
filming of Susan and God.
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April 3 - 4.
Joan unable
to work on Susan and God
because she is "depressed
and ill."
May. Joan officially
adopts first child Christina
in Las Vegas. (The child had
lived with her for the past
11 months.) The two travel
to Miami, Florida, for
reasons unknown. |
June 3.
1941Marcus
Gary Kullberg born. Joan adopts him
10 days later, renaming him
"Christopher Crawford."
October.
1943
Joan
adopts her second child, a son whom
she initially names "Phillip" after
husband Phillip Terry.
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1944
Early October. Joan
auditions for Mildred
Pierce. |
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1946
Did she
have 'the flu?'
March
7.
Joan wins the Oscar for Best
Actress for her role in
Mildred Pierce. Beset by
nerves, she stays home from
the ceremony; reporters
later converge on her house
and snap pictures of her in
bed with Oscar.
She was at home in bed with
the
flu and a bottle of
Jack Daniels bourbon.
|
In
1946,
although
an
Oscar
nominee
for
Best
Actress
(Mildred
Pierce),
Joan
was
not
present
at
the
ceremony.
She
was
at
home
in
bed
with
the
flu
and
a
bottle
of
Jack
Daniels
bourbon.
She
listened
to
the
show
over
the
radio.
When
she
was
announced
the
winner,
she
exhaled
with
a
scream
that
alerted
the
newsmen
on
the
lawn
below
her
window
that
she
had
won.
Jumping
out
of
bed,
the
ailing
star
then
called
for
her
hairdresser
and
makeup
man,
on
call
in
the
next
room. |
|
|
January 13,
1947.
Twin girls are born to an unwed
mother in a Dyersburg, Tennessee,
hospital. The mother dies 7 days
later from kidney failure. In the
Summer of 1947, Joan adopts the
girls, Cathy and Cynthia, from the
Tennesse Children's Home Society in
Memphis, Tennessee
