Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford

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Biography

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1906 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money. By the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison".

After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer; after the release of the horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life. She became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.

Films Featuring Joan Crawford

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19627.9

Mildred Pierce

19457.6

Daisy Kenyon

19476.6

Possessed

19476.9

The Women

19397.2

The Karate Killers

19675.1

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

19295.7

Mannequin

19386.0

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

19826.7

It's a Great Feeling

19496.0

Above Suspicion

19436.2

Johnny Guitar

19547.4

Grand Hotel

19327.0

The Unknown

19277.6

Flamingo Road

19497.0

Humoresque

19477.0

A Woman's Face

19416.8

Queen Bee

19556.3

I Saw What You Did

19656.2

Reunion in France

19426.5

Strait-Jacket

19646.5

The Damned Don't Cry

19507.0

Our Dancing Daughters

19286.3

Berserk!

19675.7

Autumn Leaves

19567.0

Rain

19326.6

They All Kissed the Bride

19425.9

Susan and God

19406.5

Dancing Lady

19336.9

Love on the Run

19366.5

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

1969

Sadie McKee

19347.0

Trog

19704.6

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Female on the Beach

19555.7

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

20006.8

West Point

19287.5

Chained

19347.0

Sudden Fear

19527.3

Strange Cargo

19407.0

Possessed

19317.0

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

19375.9

When Ladies Meet

19416.9

The Best of Everything

19596.3

Bette and Joan

2017

The Caretakers

19636.4

Harriet Craig

19507.5

This Woman Is Dangerous

19525.9

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

1942

Laughing Sinners

19315.3

Today We Live

19336.3

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Montana Moon

19304.7

Our Modern Maidens

19295.6

Across to Singapore

19287.0

Forsaking All Others

19346.0

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

The Shining Hour

19386.7

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

19265.9

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

20086.1

The Bride Wore Red

19376.7

No More Ladies

19355.0

Goodbye, My Fancy

19516.4

Dance, Fools, Dance

19316.4

Our Blushing Brides

19305.6

Torch Song

19535.9

Journey to the Unknown

1969

Letty Lynton

19327.0

The Story of Esther Costello

19577.0

Pretty Ladies

19255.8

The Shirley Eder Tapes

The Shirley Eder Tapes

2012

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

19826.0

Untamed

19296.2

The Boob

19266.0

Spring Fever

19276.9

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

This Modern Age

19315.9

The Ice Follies of 1939

19395.7

I Live My Life

19356.7

Paid

19306.7

Della

19647.2

Possessed

Possessed

2011

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

20066.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

19849.0

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

20066.7

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

2016

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

2016

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

2016

Dream of Love

19287.3

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

The Law of the Range

19284.7

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death

19727.0

The Circle

19255.4

The Duke Steps Out

19296.5

The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel

2005

At Home with Joan Crawford

19535.8

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

Winners of the Wilderness

19277.7

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

19967.5

Twelve Miles Out

19276.5

Fast Workers

19335.0

Journey to Murder

19717.0

We’re Switching to Hollywood

19315.2

1925 Studio Tour

19256.3

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill

1994

That's Entertainment! III

19947.1

Through Many Windows

1947

Rose-Marie

19287.0

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

The Taxi Dancer

19277.7

Lady of the Night

19255.8

The Merry Widow

19266.7

Proud Flesh

19257.2

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

19257.3

The Only Thing

19255.0

The Oscar

19665.1

A Star Is Born World Premiere

19548.0

Sally, Irene and Mary

19255.7

A Slave of Fashion

19256.0

Old Clothes

19255.0

Blow-Ups of 1946

19466.0

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

19405.8

Night Gallery

19696.5

Complicated Women

20036.9

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

How to Plan a Movie Murder

19646.5

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

19696.0

Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run

19596.0

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy

2007

The Understanding Heart

19278.0

Four Walls

19287.3

Paris

19267.0

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

19375.0

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

19394.0

The Midshipman

19257.0

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

20026.9

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'

20028.0

This was the MARY

1968

Strange Witness

1958

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

1938

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

1930

One Must Die

1961

The Road to Edinburgh

1954

And One Was Loyal

Rebel Range

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture

2010

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Zwischen Glück und Krone

195910.0

Lykke og krone

19629.0

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

2009

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

19647.3

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

19943.3

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

The Casting Couch

19958.3

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Bardelys the Magnificent

19267.4

Time, the Comedian

19253.0

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

20066.6

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

19952.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

The Green Fog

20186.1