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Joan Crawford
Actor

Joan Crawford

2 Movies
2 Credits
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Known For Acting
Known Credits 2
Birthday March 23, 1906 (120 years old)
Place of Birth San Antonio, Texas, USA
Also Known As Lucille Fay LeSueur, Lucille Le Sueur, Billie Cassin, Lucille Fay Le Sueur
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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.

Filmography (181)

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story 2025
Bette and Joan 2017
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
The Shirley Eder Tapes 2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe 2012
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture 2010
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year 2009
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France 2009
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood 2008
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema 2007
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy 2007
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story 2007
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage 2006
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition 2006
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel 2005
Checking Out: Grand Hotel 2004
Complicated Women 2003
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star 2002
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' 2002
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces 2000
Joan Crawford: Always the Star 1996
The Casting Couch 1995
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill 1994
That's Entertainment! III 1994
Gay! Gay! Hollywood 1994
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre 1989
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage 1983
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! 1982
Showbiz Ballyhoo 1982
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy 1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 1975
That's Entertainment! 1974
Hollywood: The Dream Factory 1972
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death 1972
The Sixth Sense 1972
Journey to Murder 1971
Great Performances 1971
Trog 1970
The Big Rock Candy Mountain 1969
Journey to the Unknown 1969
Night Gallery 1969
Garbo, by Joan Crawford 1969
This was the MARY 1968
The Name of the Game 1968
The Karate Killers 1967
Berserk! 1967
The Oscar 1966
I Saw What You Did 1965
Strait-Jacket 1964
Della 1964
How to Plan a Movie Murder 1964
The Big Parade of Comedy 1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1964
The Caretakers 1963
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
Lykke og krone 1962
The Lucy Show 1962
The Merv Griffin Show 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962
The Virginian 1962
One Must Die 1961
Route 66 1960
The Best of Everything 1959
Woman on the Run 1959
Zwischen Glück und Krone 1959
Startime 1959
Strange Witness 1958
The Story of Esther Costello 1957
Autumn Leaves 1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre 1956
Queen Bee 1955
Female on the Beach 1955
Johnny Guitar 1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere 1954
The Road to Edinburgh 1954
The Secret Storm 1954
Torch Song 1953
At Home with Joan Crawford 1953
General Electric Theater 1953
The Oscars 1953
Sudden Fear 1952
This Woman Is Dangerous 1952
Goodbye, My Fancy 1951
The Damned Don't Cry 1950
Harriet Craig 1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour 1950
What's My Line? 1950
It's a Great Feeling 1949
Flamingo Road 1949
Daisy Kenyon 1947
Possessed 1947
Humoresque 1947
Through Many Windows 1947
Blow-Ups of 1946 1946
Mildred Pierce 1945
Hollywood Canteen 1944
Above Suspicion 1943
Reunion in France 1942
They All Kissed the Bride 1942
Joan Crawford's Home Movies 1942
A Woman's Face 1941
When Ladies Meet 1941
Susan and God 1940
Strange Cargo 1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World 1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound 1940
The Women 1939
The Ice Follies of 1939 1939
From the Ends of the Earth 1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 1939
Mannequin 1938
The Shining Hour 1938
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 1938
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney 1937
The Bride Wore Red 1937
The Romance of Celluloid 1937
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12 1937
Love on the Run 1936
The Gorgeous Hussy 1936
No More Ladies 1935
I Live My Life 1935
Sadie McKee 1934
Chained 1934
Forsaking All Others 1934
Dancing Lady 1933
Today We Live 1933
Fast Workers 1933
Grand Hotel 1932
Rain 1932
Letty Lynton 1932
The Stolen Jools 1931
Laughing Sinners 1931
Dance, Fools, Dance 1931
This Modern Age 1931
We’re Switching to Hollywood 1931
Montana Moon 1930
Our Blushing Brides 1930
Paid 1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 1930
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 1929
Our Modern Maidens 1929
Untamed 1929
The Duke Steps Out 1929
Our Dancing Daughters 1928
West Point 1928
Across to Singapore 1928
Dream of Love 1928
The Law of the Range 1928
Rose-Marie 1928
Four Walls 1928
The Unknown 1927
Spring Fever 1927
Winners Of The Wilderness 1927
Twelve Miles Out 1927
The Taxi Dancer 1927
The Understanding Heart 1927
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp 1926
The Boob 1926
The Merry Widow 1926
Paris 1926
Bardelys the Magnificent 1926
Pretty Ladies 1925
The Circle 1925
1925 Studio Tour 1925
Lady of the Night 1925
Proud Flesh 1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925
The Only Thing 1925
Sally, Irene and Mary 1925
A Slave of Fashion 1925
Old Clothes 1925
The Midshipman 1925
Time, the Comedian 1925
And One Was Loyal
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