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The dramatic marriage between Ray Kroc, the person who amassed a lot of money as chairman of 1 of America's most controversial and iconic companies - McDonald's - and the passionate girl - his wife, Joan - who then gave that lot of money away. Ray & Joan is a quintessentially American story of commercial intrigue and private interest: a battling Mad Men-age salesman with a eye-sight for a fast-food franchise that could become one of the world's most enduring brands and a beautiful girl willing to risk her marriage and her reputation to promote controversial triggers that touched her deeply. Ray Kroc was peddling franchises around the united states for a fledgling hamburger stand in the 1950s - McDonald's, it was called - when he got into a St. Paul supper team and encountered a beautiful young piano player who change his life forever. The fascination between Ray and Joan was instantaneous and instantly problematic. Yet even the actual fact that both were committed to other folks couldn't derail their roller coaster of an romance. To the outside world, Ray and Joan were happy, enormously rich, and providing. But privately Joan was growing stressed over Ray's temper and dark top secret, something she was unwilling to publicly reveal. Those near them compared their relationship compared to that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. And yet this volatility paved the way for Joan's change into one of the greatest philanthropists of your time. A force in the peace movement, she produced activist videos, catalogs, and music and ultimately gave away vast amounts of us dollars, including landmark gift items to the Salvation Army and NPR. Along, the two stories form a engaging family portrait of the 20th hundred years: a tale of big business, big love, and big providing.
