{"id":261,"date":"2013-09-25T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcftr.wordpress.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:18:47","slug":"joan-crawford-telegram-to-rod-serling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/2013\/09\/25\/joan-crawford-telegram-to-rod-serling\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Crawford telegram to Rod Serling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often asked if I have a favorite item in the WCFTR&#8217;s collection.\u00a0 I could never single out just one item because I have an ever growing list of favorite items!\u00a0 One of my favorites, and something I usually bring out when we give tours of the WCFTR, is a telegram Joan Crawford sent to Rod Serling after she saw <i>The Planet of the Apes<\/i> (1968).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-264\" src=\"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/serling-telegram23-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><br \/>\nI was initially surprised when I found this little gem &#8211; I didn&#8217;t really picture Joan Crawford as being a science fiction fan.\u00a0 Maybe she was!\u00a0 She did go on to appear in the pilot episode of Serling&#8217;s <i>Night Gallery<\/i> television show in 1969 in the story entitled &#8220;Eyes&#8221; which was Steven Spielberg&#8217;s first professional directing assignment.\u00a0 Spielberg and Crawford became friends and corresponded with each other until she died in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Huelsbeck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often asked if I have a favorite item in the WCFTR&#8217;s collection.\u00a0 I could never single out just one item because I have an ever growing list of favorite items!\u00a0 One of my favorites, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,38,43,44,45,46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}