Joan bis: A Woman's Face

What we have here is two-thirds of a good movie. A Woman's Face starts out wonderfully, continues well through the midpoint and just when you are thinking, "Hooray! I love this!" Joan Crawford shows up at a dance in some kind of Swedish peasant dirndl-drag and it's all over.

For the first 70 minutes or so, Crawford is so good you almost can't believe it.…