Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
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.
Acted Movies
Director: William Castle
Writers: Robert Bloch,
Cast: Diane Baker, Edith Atwater, George Kennedy, Howard St. John, Joan Crawford, John Anthony Hayes, Lee Majors, Leif Erickson, Mitchell Cox, Rochelle Hudson,
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writers: Lukas Heller,
Cast: Anna Lee, Anne Barton, Bert Freed, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Julie Allred, Maidie Norman, Marjorie Bennett, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Nicholas Ray,
Cast: Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Ferguson, Joan Crawford, John Carradine, Mercedes McCambridge, Royal Dano, Scott Brady, Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond,
Director: David Miller
Writers: Robert Smith,
Cast: Bert Stevens, Bess Flowers, Bruce Bennett, Gloria Grahame, Harold Miller, Jack Palance, Joan Crawford, Mike Connors, Virginia Huston,
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: Jerome Weidman,
Cast: David Brian, Edith Evanson, Hugh Sanders, Jacqueline deWit, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, Morris Ankrum, Richard Egan, Selena Royle, Steve Cochran,
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Ranald MacDougall,
Cast: Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett, Eve Arden, Jack Carson, Jo Ann Marlowe, Joan Crawford, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Veda Ann Borg, Zachary Scott,
Director: George Cukor
Writers: Elliot Paul,
Cast: Albert Bassermann, Connie Gilchrist, Conrad Veidt, Donald Meek, Joan Crawford, Marjorie Main, Melvyn Douglas, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen, Richard Nichols,
Director: Frank Borzage
Writers: Lesser Samuels,
Cast: Albert Dekker, Clark Gable, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frederick Worlock, Ian Hunter, J. Edward Bromberg, Joan Crawford, John Arledge, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre,
Director: George Cukor
Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Cast: Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Marjorie Main, Mary Boland, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Phyllis Povah, Rosalind Russell, Virginia Weidler,
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writers: Maxwell Anderson,
Cast: Ben Hendricks Jr., Beulah Bondi, Fred Howard, Guy Kibbee, Joan Crawford, Kendall Lee, Mary Shaw, Matt Moore, Walter Huston, William Gargan,
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writers: Vicki Baum,
Cast: Ferdinand Gottschalk, Greta Garbo, Jean Hersholt, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Purnell Pratt, Robert McWade, Wallace Beery,
