She hears about the rumors, realizes why everyone in the town had been treating her so abysmally, says fuck it and goes off to spend the night with the guy she was rumored to have shtupped Cary Grant.
Despite all this, Crawford would end up supporting her mother and brother financially in 1929 after her Hal showed up unannounced at her home and she later sent for her mother.
Lilyan Tashman may have been her best onscreen female co-star, but William Powell was her ideal man.
Bret does end his story however the same as Crawford did in her memoir.
Crawford was still a bombshell in her later years above in the 1963 film Strait-Jacket 'In the late 1920s talk of the tape grew a bit too loud and Mannix was sent in to destroy it,' said Longworth.
While there are lesbian sex scenes in the movie, the only nudity apparently will be in the murder or post-murder scenes.