. >> host: joan crawford. >> guest: joan crawford. couldn't go wrong with joan crawford.i published joan crawford's book. i had a great time with her. i used to go to her apartment so we could edit it. she, too wrote in long hand, very carefully, and knew exactly what she wanted to say, and she maintained that firm control over everything that was always a part of her career, and i remembered that -- although by that time she had been reduced to quite a large but not impressive apartment in new york city, this was every her husband had died, and she had lost her temporary control of the pepsi-cola corporation, and she took me in one day to show me her closet. in fact it was three or four bedrooms in the apartment. they were completely covered in clothes, all -- each dress in a plastic zippered bag, with a note on it in her hand of the places and date when she had worn it and the matching pair of shoes underneath it. hundreds of them. and going back to -- i don't know how far, and it was just amazing. it was one of those -- you say to yourself, i cannot really be seeing th

. >> host: joan crawford. >> guest: ah, you couldn't go wrong with joan crawford. i published joan crawford's book. i had a great time with her. i used to go to her apartment so we could edit it. she, too, wrote in longhand very carefully and knew what she wanted to say, and she maintained that firm control over everything that was always a part of her career, and i remember that although by that time she had been reduced to quite a large but not impressive apartment in new york city, this was after her husband had died and she had lost her temporary control of the pepsi cola corporation. and she took me in one day to show me what she called her closet. in fact, if there were three or four bedrooms in this apartment, they were completely covered in clothes. each dress in a plastic, zippered bag with a note on it in her hand of the place and the date where she had worn it and the matching pair of shoes underneath it. hund of matching pair of shoes bac underneath it and it was just amazing. it's one of those times you say to your self i cannot really see what it was.