Cast

Joan Crawford

Acting

Cast

Joan Crawford

Known for

Acting

Born

1906-03-23

From

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Died

1977-05-10

Also known as Lucille Fay LeSueur, Lucille Le Sueur, Billie Cassin

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.

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Biography

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Mildred Pierce

That's Entertainment!

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Possessed

Grand Hotel

Johnny Guitar

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

The Women

A Woman's Face

The Oscar

Female on the Beach

That's Entertainment! III

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

The Unknown

The Road to Edinburgh

The Gorgeous Hussy

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Sudden Fear

They All Kissed the Bride

Strange Cargo

The Karate Killers

Zwischen Glück und Krone

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

That's Entertainment, Part II

Our Modern Maidens

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Midshipman

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

Night Gallery

Lykke og krone

Reunion in France

The Damned Don't Cry

The Boob

The Best of Everything

Flamingo Road

Possessed

The Casting Couch

Hollywood Canteen

Bardelys the Magnificent

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Daisy Kenyon

The Merry Widow

Chained

This Woman Is Dangerous

I Saw What You Did

When Ladies Meet

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

Trog

Dancing Lady

Forsaking All Others

Possessed

At Home with Joan Crawford

Queen Bee

Berserk!

The Stolen Jools

Bette and Joan

Above Suspicion

Lady of the Night

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Goodbye, My Fancy

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

The Shining Hour

Sally, Irene and Mary

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

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Across to Singapore

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Humoresque

It's a Great Feeling

This was the MARY

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

The Bride Wore Red

The Big Parade of Comedy