Joan Crawford
Gender: Female
Born: 23rd March 1905
Died: 10th May 1977
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Caesar's Hour, ABC's Nightlife, The Sixth Sense, The Secret Storm, G.E. True Theater
Movies: Berserk!, Grand Hotel, Johnny Guitar, Love on the Run, Mildred Pierce, Possessed, Sadie McKee, Sudden Fear, The Damned Don't Cry!, The Unknown, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Flamingo Road, Rain, Possessed, Trog, Reunion in France, Queen Bee, Harriet Craig, Susan and God, Across to Singapore, The Women, I Saw What You Did, When Ladies Meet, Autumn Leaves, Tide of Empire, The Gorgeous Hussy, The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Strange Cargo, Daisy Kenyon, The Story of Esther Costello, Goodbye, My Fancy, The Caretakers, Strait-Jacket, Untamed, They All Kissed the Bride, Above Suspicion, Dancing Lady, Laughing Sinners, Humoresque, Spring Fever, This Woman is Dangerous, Our Modern Maidens, Montana Moon, Our Blushing Brides, Paid, Dance, Fools, Dance, This Modern Age, Letty Lynton, Today We Live, Chained, Forsaking All Others, No More Ladies, I Live My Life, The Bride Wore Red, The Shining Hour, Mannequin, The Ice Follies of 1939, A Woman's Face, Female on the Beach, Our Dancing Daughters, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, The Taxi Dancer, Twelve Miles Out, The Law of the Range, West Point, The Duke Steps Out, Torch Song, Sally, Irene and Mary, Old Clothes, The Boob, Winners of the Wilderness, The Understanding Heart, Four Walls, Dream of Love, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The Best of Everything, Paris, The Karate Killers, Great Day, Pretty Ladies, Rose-Marie, The Circle, It's a Great Feeling, Harry Langdon: The Forgotten Clown, The Stolen Jools
Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur, (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress in film, television and theatre.
Starting 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 began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In 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 and 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
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