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Joan Crawford: Always the Star

as Self (archive footage)

1996
Trog

as Dr. Brockton

1970
The Karate Killers

as Amanda True

1967
Berserk!

as Monica Rivers

1967
I Saw What You Did

as Amy Nelson

1965
Strait-Jacket

as Lucy Harbin

1964
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

as Blanche Hudson

1962
Autumn Leaves

as Millicent Wetherby

1956
Queen Bee

as Eva Phillips

1955
Female on the Beach

as Lynn Markham

1955
Johnny Guitar

as Vienna

1954
Torch Song

as Jenny Stewart

1953
Sudden Fear

as Myra Hudson Blaine

1952
This Woman Is Dangerous

as Elizabeth Austin

1952
Goodbye, My Fancy

as Agatha Reed

1951
The Damned Don't Cry

as Ethel Whitehead

1950
Harriet Craig

as Harriet Craig

1950
Flamingo Road

as Lane Bellamy

1949
Daisy Kenyon

as Daisy Kenyon

1947
Possessed

as Louise Howell

1947
Humoresque

as Helen Wright

1947
Mildred Pierce

as Mildred Pierce

1945
Hollywood Canteen

as Self

1944
Above Suspicion

as Frances Myles

1943
Reunion in France

as Michele de la Becque

1942
A Woman's Face

as Anna Holm

1941
When Ladies Meet

as Mary 'Minnie' Howard

1941
Joan Crawford Joan Crawford

Birthday

1904-03-23

Place of Birth

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Biography

Born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, but christened Joan Crawford by Hollywood, she exemplified the 1920s carefree "flapper" era to a 'T'. Her beauty and vivacity catapulted her to stardom in the late 1920s in the hugely popular silent film Our Dancing Daughters. Ever since that point, the resilient actress with the ever expressive eyes, the famous over-painted lips and the will of steel created for herself one of the most legendary and enduring Hollywood personae of all time. Receiving three Best Actress Oscar nominations throughout her long career and winning once for 1945's Mildred Pierce, Joan seemed to personify the ideal American woman of every decade, from the uproarious 1920s right up until her death as a semi-reclusive corporate widow on May 10, 1977. Her fourth and last marriage was to Pepsi Cola chairman Alfred Steele, who died in 1959. She was described by some as 'The Face' owing to her classically beautiful features. Great Hollywood studio photographer George Hurrell dubbed her "camera proof" as she photographed perfectly from every angle. She also won a British BAFTA award for the 1957 movie The Story of Esther Costello. Her film career spanning nearly fifty years, she is best remembered for classic performances in Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Grand Hotel (1932), The Women (1939), Mildred Pierce (1945), Humoresque (1946), Possessed (1947), Harriet Craig (1950), Sudden Fear (1952), and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).
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