Joan Crawford
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Born:
Mar 23, 1906

Died:
May 10, 1977

Age: 71 Deceased

From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA

Department:
Acting

Total Credits: 192

Avg Rating: 6.5

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Joan Crawford

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

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, Craw...

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self (archive footage) 2025
Bette and Joan
Self (archive footage) 2017
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Self (archive footage) 2016
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Self (archive footage) 2016
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Self (archive footage) 2016
The Shirley Eder Tapes
Self 2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage) 2012
Possessed
(archive footage) 2011
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage) 2009
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage) 2008
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self (archive) 2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage) 2007
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
Self 2007
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Self (archive footage) 2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self (archive footage) 2006
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
Self (archive) 2005
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage) 2004
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage) 2003
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self (archive footage) 2002
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Self (archive footage) 2002
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage / uncredited) 2000
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self (archive footage) 1996
The Casting Couch
1995
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
Self (archive footage) 1994
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) 1994
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self 1989
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage) 1984
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