Joan Crawford
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
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Dr. Brockton (archive footage)
as Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage / uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Joan Fairchild
as Self (archive footage)
as Joan Fairchild
as Host
as Self
as Dr. Brockton
as Miss Claudia Menlo
as Miss Menlo
as Narrator
as Self - Host
as Self
as Committee Member (uncredited)
as Monica Rivers
as Amanda True
as Joan Crawford
as Amy Nelson
as Bobby (archive footage)
as Della Chappell
as Lucy Harbin
as Self
as Amanda True
as Lucretia Terry
as Blanche Hudson
as Joan Crawford
as Self
as Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Morgan Harper
as Amanda Farrow
as Susan Conrad
as Margaret Landi
as Millicent Wetherby
as Stella Faring
as Sarah / Melanie Davidson Hobbs
as Eva Phillips
as Lynn Markham
as Self
as Vienna
as Joan Borman Kane
as Jenny Stewart
as Self
as Self
as Ann Howard
as Ruth Marshall
as Mary Andrews
as Myra Hudson Blaine
as Elizabeth Austin
as Agatha Reed
as Harriet Craig
as Ethel Whitehead
as Self
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Joan Crawford (uncredited)
as Lane Bellamy
as Daisy Kenyon
as Self - Narrator
as Louise Howell
as Helen Wright
as Self
as Mildred Pierce
as Self
as Frances Myles
as Michele de la Becque
as Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew
as Self
as Mary 'Minnie' Howard
as Anna Holm
as Susan Trexel
as Julie
as Crystal Allen
as Self
as Joan Crawford
as Mary McKay
as Olivia Riley Linden
as Jessie Cassidy
as Anni Pavlovitch
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (uncredited)
as Mrs. Fay Cheyney
as Sally Parker
as Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal
as Kay Bentley
as Marcia Townsend Warren
as Mary Clay
as Diane Lovering
as Sadie
as Janie Barlow
as Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
as Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith
as Sadie Thompson
as Flämmchen
as Letty Lynton
as Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'
as Valentine 'Val' Winters
as Self
as Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens
as Joan Crawford
as Bonnie Jordan
as Mary Turner
as Jerry March
as Joan
as Self
as Alice "Bingo" Dowling
as Billie Brown
as Susie
as Adrienne Lecouvreur
as Self (1929)
as Diana 'Di' Medford
as Frieda
as Priscilla Crowninshield
as Rose-Marie
as Betty Dallas
as Betty Channing
as Allie Monte
as Jane
as Nanon Zanzi
as Monica Dale
as Joselyn Poe
as René Contrecoeur
as Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
as The Girl
as Jane
as Betty Burton
as Irene O'Dare
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Mary Riley
as Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
as Young Lady Catherine
as Bobby
as Mannequin (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Self
as Body Double for Norma Shearer
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Crew
as Additional Writing
as Cinematography
Director
as Director
Costume & Make-Up
as Costume Consultant