Joan Crawford

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1904-03-23

Deathday 1977-05-10 (73 years old)

Place of Birth San Antonio, Texas, USA

Also Known As Lucille Fay LeSueur, Lucille Le Sueur, Billie Cassin, Lucille Fay Le Sueur

Joan Crawford

Biography

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – 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.

Known For

Actor

2017
Spielberg

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2017
Bette and Joan

as Self (archive footage)

2016
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

as Self (archive footage)

2016
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

as Self (archive footage)

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2011
Possessed

as (archive footage)

2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

2007
Girl 27

as Self (archive footage)

2006
2006
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

as Self (archive footage)

2004
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

as Dr. Brockton (archive footage)

2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel

as Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)

2003
Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

as Self (archive footage)

2002
2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

as Self (archive footage / uncredited)

1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star

as Self (archive footage)

1994
That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)

1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1976
That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1974
That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage)

1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1972
The Sixth Sense

as Joan Fairchild

1971
1971
1970
Trog

as Dr. Brockton

1970
Night Gallery

as Miss Claudia Menlo

1969
Night Gallery

as Miss Menlo

1969
Garbo

as Narrator

1969
Journey to the Unknown

as Self - Host

1968
The Name of the Game

as Committee Member (uncredited)

1967
Berserk!

as Monica Rivers

1967
The Karate Killers

as Amanda True

1966
The Oscar

as Joan Crawford

1965
I Saw What You Did

as Amy Nelson

1965
The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)

1964
The Big Parade of Comedy

as Bobby (archive footage)

1964
Della

as Della Chappell

1964
Strait-Jacket

as Lucy Harbin

1964
1963
The Caretakers

as Lucretia Terry

1962
1962
The Lucy Show

as Joan Crawford

1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)

1960
Route 66

as Morgan Harper

1959
The Best of Everything

as Amanda Farrow

1959
Woman on the Run

as Susan Conrad

1957
1956
Autumn Leaves

as Millicent Wetherby

1956
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Sarah / Melanie Davidson Hobbs

1955
Queen Bee

as Eva Phillips

1955
Female on the Beach

as Lynn Markham

1954
Johnny Guitar

as Vienna

1954
The Secret Storm

as Joan Borman Kane

1953
Torch Song

as Jenny Stewart

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1953
1953
General Electric Theater

as Ruth Marshall

1953
General Electric Theater

as Mary Andrews

1952
Sudden Fear

as Myra Hudson Blaine

1952
This Woman Is Dangerous

as Elizabeth Austin

1951
Goodbye, My Fancy

as Agatha Reed

1950
Harriet Craig

as Harriet Craig

1950
The Damned Don't Cry

as Ethel Whitehead

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
It's a Great Feeling

as Joan Crawford (uncredited)

1949
Flamingo Road

as Lane Bellamy

1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)

1947
Daisy Kenyon

as Daisy Kenyon

1947
Through Many Windows

as Self - Narrator

1947
Possessed

as Louise Howell

1947
Humoresque

as Helen Wright

1946
1945
Mildred Pierce

as Mildred Pierce

1944
1943
Above Suspicion

as Frances Myles

1942
Reunion in France

as Michele de la Becque

1942
They All Kissed the Bride

as Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew

1941
When Ladies Meet

as Mary 'Minnie' Howard

1941
A Woman's Face

as Anna Holm

1940
Susan and God

as Susan Trexel

1940
Strange Cargo

as Julie

1939
The Women

as Crystal Allen

1939
1938
The Shining Hour

as Olivia Riley Linden

1938
Mannequin

as Jessie Cassidy

1937
The Bride Wore Red

as Anni Pavlovitch

1937
The Romance of Celluloid

as Self (archive footage)

1937
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

as Mrs. Fay Cheyney

1936
Love on the Run

as Sally Parker

1936
The Gorgeous Hussy

as Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal

1935
I Live My Life

as Kay Bentley

1935
No More Ladies

as Marcia Townsend Warren

1934
1934
Chained

as Diane Lovering

1934
Sadie McKee

as Sadie

1933
Dancing Lady

as Janie Barlow

1933
Fast Workers

as Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)

1933
Today We Live

as Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith

1932
Rain

as Sadie Thompson

1932
Grand Hotel

as Flämmchen

1932
Letty Lynton

as Letty Lynton

1931
Possessed

as Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'

1931
This Modern Age

as Valentine 'Val' Winters

1931
Laughing Sinners

as Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens

1931
The Stolen Jools

as Joan Crawford

1931
Dance, Fools, Dance

as Bonnie Jordan

1930
Paid

as Mary Turner

1930
Our Blushing Brides

as Jerry March

1930
Montana Moon

as Joan

1929
Untamed

as Alice "Bingo" Dowling

1929
Our Modern Maidens

as Billie Brown

1929
1928
Dream of Love

as Adrienne Lecouvreur

1928
Fashion News

as Self (1929)

1928
Our Dancing Daughters

as Diana 'Di' Medford

1928
Four Walls

as Frieda

1928
Across to Singapore

as Priscilla Crowninshield

1928
Rose-Marie

as Rose-Marie

1928
The Law of the Range

as Betty Dallas

1928
West Point

as Betty Channing

1927
Spring Fever

as Allie Monte

1927
1927
The Unknown

as Nanon Zanzi

1927
1927
The Taxi Dancer

as Joselyn Poe

1927
Winners Of The Wilderness

as René Contrecoeur

1926
The Merry Widow

as Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)

1926
Paris

as The Girl

1926
The Boob

as Jane

1926
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

as Betty Burton

1925
Sally, Irene and Mary

as Irene O'Dare

1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1925
The Only Thing

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1925
Old Clothes

as Mary Riley

1925
The Midshipman

as Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)

1925
The Circle

as Young Lady Catherine

1925
Pretty Ladies

as Bobby

1925
A Slave of Fashion

as Mannequin (uncredited)

1925
Proud Flesh

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1925
1925
Lady of the Night

as Body Double for Norma Shearer

Producer

1964
Della

as Producer

1959
Woman on the Run

as Producer

Crew

1950
The Damned Don't Cry

as Additional Writing

1942
Joan Crawford's Home Movies

as Cinematography

Director

Costume & Make-Up

1950
The Damned Don't Cry

as Costume Consultant