Joan Crawford
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 23, 1906
- Died
- May 10, 1977 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
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Filmography
And One Was Loyal
Movie · as Ann Howard
Rebel Range
Movie · as Stella Faring
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Green Fog
Movie
Bette and Joan
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Shirley Eder Tapes
Movie · as Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Possessed
Movie · as (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Movie
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
Movie
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie · as Various Roles (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Movie · as Self (archive)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (voice)
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
Movie · as Self (archive)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie · as Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Movie · as Self (archive footage / uncredited)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Movie
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
Movie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie · as Self
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie · as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie · as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
Movie · as Joan Fairchild
The Sixth Sense
TV · as Joan Fairchild · 1 ep
Journey to Murder
Movie · as Host
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Trog
Movie · as Dr. Brockton
The Tim Conway Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Movie · as Self
Journey to the Unknown
Movie · as Self - Host
Night Gallery
Movie · as Miss Menlo
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Movie · as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
This was the MARY
Movie · as Self/Narrator
The Name of the Game
TV · as Committee Member (uncredited) · 1 ep
The Karate Killers
Movie · as Amanda True
Berserk!
Movie · as Monica Rivers
The Oscar
Movie · as Joan Crawford (uncredited)
I Saw What You Did
Movie · as Amy Nelson
Strait-Jacket
Movie · as Lucy Harbin
Della
Movie · as Della Chappell
How to Plan a Movie Murder
Movie · as Self
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie · as Bobby (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie · as Miriam Deering in Car (uncredited)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Amanda True · 1 ep
The Caretakers
Movie · as Lucretia Terry
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie · as Blanche Hudson
Lykke og krone
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lucy Show
TV · as Joan Crawford · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 5 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Stephanie White · 1 ep
One Must Die
Movie
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie · as Self - Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
Route 66
TV · as Morgan Harper · 1 ep
The Best of Everything
Movie · as Amanda Farrow
Woman on the Run
Movie · as Susan Conrad
Zwischen Glück und Krone
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Startime
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Strange Witness
Movie · as Ruth Marshall
The Story of Esther Costello
Movie · as Margaret Landi
Autumn Leaves
Movie · as Millicent Wetherby
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Stella Faring, Sarah / Melanie Davidson Hobbs · 1 ep
Queen Bee
Movie · as Eva Phillips
Female on the Beach
Movie · as Lynn Markham
Johnny Guitar
Movie · as Vienna
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Movie · as Self
The Road to Edinburgh
Movie · as Mary Andrews
The Secret Storm
TV · as Joan Borman Kane · 318 eps
Torch Song
Movie · as Jenny Stewart
At Home with Joan Crawford
Movie · as Self
General Electric Theater
TV · as Ann Howard, Ruth Marshall, Mary Andrews · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 8 eps
Sudden Fear
Movie · as Myra Hudson Blaine
This Woman Is Dangerous
Movie · as Elizabeth Austin
Goodbye, My Fancy
Movie · as Agatha Reed
The Damned Don't Cry
Movie · as Ethel Whitehead
Harriet Craig
Movie · as Harriet Craig
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 5 eps
It's a Great Feeling
Movie · as Joan Crawford (uncredited)
Flamingo Road
Movie · as Lane Bellamy
Daisy Kenyon
Movie · as Daisy Kenyon
Possessed
Movie · as Louise Howell
Humoresque
Movie · as Helen Wright
Through Many Windows
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Blow-Ups of 1946
Movie · as Self
Mildred Pierce
Movie · as Mildred Pierce
Hollywood Canteen
Movie · as Self
Above Suspicion
Movie · as Frances Myles
Reunion in France
Movie · as Michele de la Becque
They All Kissed the Bride
Movie · as Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Movie · as Self
A Woman's Face
Movie · as Anna Holm
When Ladies Meet
Movie · as Mary 'Minnie' Howard
Susan and God
Movie · as Susan Trexel
Strange Cargo
Movie · as Julie
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie · as Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie · as Self
The Women
Movie · as Crystal Allen
The Ice Follies of 1939
Movie · as Mary McKay
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie · as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Movie · as Joan Crawford
Mannequin
Movie · as Jessie Cassidy
The Shining Hour
Movie · as Olivia Riley Linden
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Movie · as Self
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Movie · as Mrs. Fay Cheyney
The Bride Wore Red
Movie · as Anni Pavlovitch
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Love on the Run
Movie · as Sally Parker
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie · as Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal
No More Ladies
Movie · as Marcia Townsend Warren
I Live My Life
Movie · as Kay Bentley
Sadie McKee
Movie · as Sadie
Chained
Movie · as Diane Lovering
Forsaking All Others
Movie · as Mary Clay
Dancing Lady
Movie · as Janie Barlow
Today We Live
Movie · as Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith
Fast Workers
Movie · as Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
Grand Hotel
Movie · as Flämmchen
Rain
Movie · as Sadie Thompson
Letty Lynton
Movie · as Letty Lynton
Possessed
Movie · as Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'
The Stolen Jools
Movie · as Joan Crawford
Laughing Sinners
Movie · as Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens
Dance, Fools, Dance
Movie · as Bonnie Jordan
This Modern Age
Movie · as Valentine 'Val' Winters
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Montana Moon
Movie · as Joan
Our Blushing Brides
Movie · as Geraldine 'Gerry' March
Paid
Movie · as Mary Turner
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Movie · as Self
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie · as Self
Our Modern Maidens
Movie · as Billie Brown
Untamed
Movie · as Alice "Bingo" Dowling
The Duke Steps Out
Movie · as Susie
Our Dancing Daughters
Movie · as Diana 'Di' Medford
West Point
Movie · as Betty Channing
Across to Singapore
Movie · as Priscilla Crowninshield
Dream of Love
Movie · as Adrienne Lecouvreur
The Law of the Range
Movie · as Betty Dallas
Rose-Marie
Movie · as Rose-Marie
Four Walls
Movie · as Frieda
The Unknown
Movie · as Nanon Zanzi
Spring Fever
Movie · as Allie Monte
Winners of the Wilderness
Movie · as René Contrecoeur
Twelve Miles Out
Movie · as Jane
The Taxi Dancer
Movie · as Joselyn Poe
The Understanding Heart
Movie · as Monica Dale
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Movie · as Betty Burton
The Boob
Movie · as Jane
Paris
Movie · as The Girl
Bardelys the Magnificent
Movie · as Court Gossip (uncredited)
Pretty Ladies
Movie · as Bobby
The Circle
Movie · as Young Lady Catherine
1925 Studio Tour
Movie · as Self
Lady of the Night
Movie · as Body Double for Norma Shearer
Proud Flesh
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
Movie · as Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie · as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Only Thing
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
A Slave of Fashion
Movie · as Mannequin (uncredited)
Old Clothes
Movie · as Mary Riley
Sally, Irene and Mary
Movie · as Irene O'Dare
The Midshipman
Movie · as Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
Time, the Comedian
Movie · as Art Student (as Lucille LeSueur)