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

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19627.9

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

19265.9

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Mildred Pierce

19457.6

Grand Hotel

19327.0

The Oscar

19665.0

The Women

19397.2

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

Johnny Guitar

19547.4

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

19647.3

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

19826.7

Possessed

19317.0

Sudden Fear

19527.3

Lykke og krone

19629.0

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

19257.3

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

The Best of Everything

19596.3

Complicated Women

20036.9

Berserk!

19675.7

A Woman's Face

19416.8

Night Gallery

19696.5

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

20006.8

The Boob

19266.0

Daisy Kenyon

19476.6

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

2016

Strait-Jacket

19646.5

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

20066.6

The Story of Esther Costello

19577.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Goodbye, My Fancy

19516.4

Female on the Beach

19555.7

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

They All Kissed the Bride

19425.9

Forsaking All Others

19346.0

Letty Lynton

19327.0

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

2016

Zwischen Glück und Krone

195910.0

Possessed

19476.9

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Dancing Lady

19336.9

Trog

19704.6

Chained

19347.0

Queen Bee

19556.3

The Damned Don't Cry

19507.0

Flamingo Road

19497.0

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Above Suspicion

19436.2

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

Our Modern Maidens

19295.6

I Saw What You Did

19656.2

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

Sadie McKee

19347.0

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

19405.8

Strange Cargo

19407.0

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

19295.9

The Unknown

19277.5

Going Hollywood: The '30s

19849.0

The Midshipman

19257.0

Susan and God

19406.5

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

19967.5

At Home with Joan Crawford

19535.8

Rain

19326.6

Humoresque

19477.0

The Casting Couch

19958.3

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

A Slave of Fashion

19256.0

A Star Is Born World Premiere

19548.0

Bardelys the Magnificent

19267.4

When Ladies Meet

19416.9

Reunion in France

19426.4

It's a Great Feeling

19496.0

The Road to Edinburgh

1954

Woman on the Run

19596.0

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

20086.1

Autumn Leaves

19567.0

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

20066.0

Twelve Miles Out

19276.5

Our Blushing Brides

19305.6

The Karate Killers

19675.1

The Ice Follies of 1939

19395.7

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

2009

Sally, Irene and Mary

19255.7

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture

2010

Across to Singapore

19287.0

Possessed

2011

This Woman Is Dangerous

19525.9

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

19826.0

I Live My Life

19356.7

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

19394.0

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

2016

Lady of the Night

19255.8

The Shining Hour

19386.7

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

19375.0

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

19696.0

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

Untamed

19296.2

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

The Merry Widow

19266.7

Dance, Fools, Dance

19316.4

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

19943.3

We’re Switching to Hollywood

19315.2

Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy

2007

The Law of the Range

19284.7

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

19375.9

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

20028.0

Today We Live

19336.3

The Caretakers

19636.4

The Green Fog

20186.1

The Bride Wore Red

19376.8

Montana Moon

19304.7

Paid

19306.7

Pretty Ladies

19255.8

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

19952.0

Bette and Joan

2017

Harriet Craig

19507.5

West Point

19287.5

Mannequin

19386.0

How to Plan a Movie Murder

19646.5

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

The Understanding Heart

19278.0

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

1942

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

20066.7

Della

19647.2

Blow-Ups of 1946

19466.0

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982

This Modern Age

19315.9

Proud Flesh

19257.2

The Circle

19255.4

This was the MARY

1968

Time, the Comedian

19253.0

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

20026.9

Our Dancing Daughters

19286.3

1925 Studio Tour

19256.3

Torch Song

19535.9

Dream of Love

19287.3

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill

1994

No More Ladies

19355.0

Laughing Sinners

19315.3

Journey to the Unknown

1969

Love on the Run

19366.5

Spring Fever

19276.9

Fast Workers

19335.0

Journey to Murder

19717.0

Old Clothes

19255.0

Four Walls

19287.3

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

19727.0

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

1930

One Must Die

1961

The Taxi Dancer

19277.7

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

1969

Through Many Windows

1947

The Duke Steps Out

19296.5

Winners Of The Wilderness

19277.7

The Only Thing

19255.0

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

1938

The Shirley Eder Tapes

2012

Rose-Marie

19287.0

Paris

19267.0

Strange Witness

1958

And One Was Loyal

2026

Rebel Range

2026

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

2005