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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Birthday: 1904-03-23 | Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star

as    Self (archive footage)

1970
Trog

as    Dr. Brockton

1967
The Karate Killers

as    Amanda True

1967
Berserk!

as    Monica Rivers

1965
I Saw What You Did

as    Amy Nelson

1964
Strait-Jacket

as    Lucy Harbin

1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

as    Blanche Hudson

1956
Autumn Leaves

as    Millicent Wetherby

1955
Queen Bee

as    Eva Phillips

1955
Female on the Beach

as    Lynn Markham

1954
Johnny Guitar

as    Vienna

1953
Torch Song

as    Jenny Stewart

1953
1952
This Woman Is Dangerous

as    Elizabeth Austin

1952
Sudden Fear

as    Myra Hudson Blaine

1951
Goodbye, My Fancy

as    Agatha Reed

1950
The Damned Don't Cry

as    Ethel Whitehead

1950
Harriet Craig

as    Harriet Craig

1949
Flamingo Road

as    Lane Bellamy

1947
Daisy Kenyon

as    Daisy Kenyon

1947
Humoresque

as    Helen Wright

1947
Possessed

as    Louise Howell

1945
Mildred Pierce

as    Mildred Pierce

1944
Hollywood Canteen

as    Self

1943
Above Suspicion

as    Frances Myles

1942
Reunion in France

as    Michele de la Becque

1941
A Woman's Face

as    Anna Holm

1941
When Ladies Meet

as    Mary 'Minnie' Howard