The haute couture fashions, ersatz British accent. She was America’s ideal Hollywood star - the one by which all others were measured. Miss Crawford imbrued herself with a regal air of royalty. Upcoming was her seminal (yet supporting) role in The Best of Everything as ball-breaking business executive Amanda Farrow. Her best work mostly behind her, Crawford was experiencing moderate box office success during the late-50s with a run of campy B-movies that included Johnny Guitar, Queen Bee and The Story of Esther Costello.
#ALFRED STEELE DEATH CAUSE MOVIE#
The Steele’s planned trip to Greensboro later in the week would provide the perfect Hollywood ending to a real life fairy tale come true - plucky small town boy meets glamorous movie queen with the lights of Manhattan as their backdrop. Perhaps at the insistence of Steele’s wife, who understood more than anyone the power of publicity, the boy and his parents were flown to New York and put up at the Waldorf Astoria, where Alfred Steele and his new bride, one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars, Joan Crawford, were staying while their fabulous two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse was undergoing major renovations. The answer he received was something the youngster couldn’t possibly have predicted.
He fired off a letter to Pepsi’s chairman, Alfred Steele, to ask if his board of directors was, “crooked like those people in the movie.” No, really. was gifted 5 shares of Pepsi common stock in 1957 but, after watching the financial world spoof The Solid Gold Cadillac, he suddenly grew concerned about his investment.
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