Joan Crawford

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

120

Movies

172

Born: March 23, 1906 – May 10, 1977
From: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Biography

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.

Works

172 films

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

19265.9

Mildred Pierce

19457.6

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19627.9

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Grand Hotel

19327.0

The Women

19397.2

Johnny Guitar

19547.4

The Oscar

19665.0

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

19826.7

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

19647.3

Possessed

19317.0

Lykke og krone

19629.0

Sudden Fear

19527.3

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

19257.3

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

20006.8

Female on the Beach

19555.7

A Woman's Face

19416.8

Complicated Women

20036.9

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

Flamingo Road

19497.0

Daisy Kenyon

19476.6

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

Zwischen Glück und Krone

195910.0

Humoresque

19477.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

Night Gallery

19696.5

Possessed

19476.9

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture

2010

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

2016

Our Modern Maidens

19295.6

The Unknown

19277.5

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Goodbye, My Fancy

19516.4

Strait-Jacket

19646.5

They All Kissed the Bride

19425.9

The Best of Everything

19596.3

Berserk!

19675.7

The Story of Esther Costello

19577.0

Rain

19326.6

Queen Bee

19556.3

The Casting Couch

19958.3

Chained

19347.0

A Star Is Born World Premiere

19548.0

I Saw What You Did

19656.2

The Karate Killers

19675.1

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Forsaking All Others

19346.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

19405.8

The Boob

19266.0

The Midshipman

19257.0

Letty Lynton

19327.0

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

19295.9

Going Hollywood: The '30s

19849.0

It's a Great Feeling

19496.0

The Damned Don't Cry

19507.0

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Above Suspicion

19436.2

Strange Cargo

19407.0

Dancing Lady

19336.9

Autumn Leaves

19567.0

At Home with Joan Crawford

19535.8

Susan and God

19406.5

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

20066.6

This Woman Is Dangerous

19525.9

Bardelys the Magnificent

19267.4

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

Dance, Fools, Dance

19316.4

Trog

19704.6

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

19826.0

Sally, Irene and Mary

19255.7

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

2016

Reunion in France

19426.4

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

2009

When Ladies Meet

19416.9

The Bride Wore Red

19376.8

Our Blushing Brides

19305.6

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

2016

The Road to Edinburgh

1954

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

The Green Fog

20186.1

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

19375.9

Sadie McKee

19347.0

The Law of the Range

19284.7

The Shining Hour

19386.7

The Ice Follies of 1939

19395.7

A Slave of Fashion

19256.0

Across to Singapore

19287.0

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

19967.5

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

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

20086.1

Untamed

19296.2

The Merry Widow

19266.7

The Circle

19255.4

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

20066.0

Twelve Miles Out

19276.5

Mannequin

19386.0

Lady of the Night

19255.8

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

19394.0

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Paid

19306.7

Harriet Craig

19507.5

I Live My Life

19356.7

Possessed

2011

Time, the Comedian

19253.0

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

19952.0

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

We’re Switching to Hollywood

19315.2

Today We Live

19336.3

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Woman on the Run

19596.0

Montana Moon

19304.7

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

1942

The Caretakers

19636.4

Pretty Ladies

19255.8

Della

19647.2

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

19943.3

Laughing Sinners

19315.3

1925 Studio Tour

19256.3

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

19696.0

Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy

2007

Fast Workers

19335.0

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

19375.0

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'

20028.0

Our Dancing Daughters

19286.3

Bette and Joan

2017

Love on the Run

19366.5

Journey to Murder

19717.0

This Modern Age

19315.9

Proud Flesh

19257.2

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982

The Understanding Heart

19278.0

Spring Fever

19276.9

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

20066.7

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

20026.9

Blow-Ups of 1946

19466.0

West Point

19287.5

Torch Song

19535.9

This was the MARY

1968

Dream of Love

19287.3

Journey to the Unknown

1969

Winners Of The Wilderness

19277.7

The Taxi Dancer

19277.7

How to Plan a Movie Murder

19646.5

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill

1994

No More Ladies

19355.0

One Must Die

1961

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death

19727.0

Old Clothes

19255.0

Four Walls

19287.3

And One Was Loyal

2026

Through Many Windows

1947

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

1969

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

1938

The Duke Steps Out

19296.5

Rose-Marie

19287.0

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

1930

Strange Witness

1958

The Shirley Eder Tapes

2012

The Only Thing

19255.0

Rebel Range

2026

Paris

19267.0

The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel

2005