Joan Crawford

🎂 Data nașterii: 1906-03-23 (San Antonio, Texas, USA)

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.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Mildred Pierce

Daisy Kenyon

Possessed

The Women

The Karate Killers

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Mannequin

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Ce sentiment minunat!

Above Suspicion

Johnny Chitară

Grand Hotel

The Unknown

Flamingo Road

Humoresque

A Woman's Face

Reunion in France

I Saw What You Did

Queen Bee

Strait-Jacket

The Damned Don't Cry

Our Dancing Daughters

Berserk!

Autumn Leaves

Rain

They All Kissed the Bride

Susan and God

Dansatoarea

Love on the Run

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Sadie McKee

Trog

Hollywood Canteen

Female on the Beach

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

West Point

Chained

Sudden Fear

Încărcătura stranie

Possessed

The Stolen Jools

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

When Ladies Meet

The Best of Everything

Bette and Joan

The Caretakers

Harriet Craig

This Woman Is Dangerous

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

Laughing Sinners

Today We Live

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Montana Moon

Our Modern Maidens

Across to Singapore

Forsaking All Others

The Gorgeous Hussy

The Shining Hour

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

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

The Bride Wore Red

No More Ladies

Goodbye, My Fancy

Dance, Fools, Dance

Our Blushing Brides

Torch Song

Journey to the Unknown

Letty Lynton

The Story of Esther Costello

Pretty Ladies

The Shirley Eder Tapes

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Untamed

The Boob

Spring Fever

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

This Modern Age