With credit to MadonnaTribe.com (and thanks to Giulio), this is an old discovery (probably first posted on that site years ago) about an old video, but one that still fascinates me—I never noticed at the time how directly the Joan Crawford film Humoresque (1946, dir. by Jean Negulesco) inspired Madonna's "The Power Of Good-Bye" director Matthew Rolston.

I wonder how Crawford—who died of cancer before Madonna made her mark—would have related to Ciccone? Probably about as well as Faye Dunaway is relating to Hilary Duff.