Joan Crawford
Acting
Born: March 23, 1906 · San Antonio, Texas, USA
Died: May 10, 1977 (aged 71)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
Johnny Guitar
1954
Mildred Pierce
1945
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Grand Hotel
1932
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
The Unknown
1927
The Women
1939
Sudden Fear
1952
Strait-Jacket
1964
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
Possessed
1947
Photos (17)
Movies (115)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Blanche Hudson
Grand Hotel
Flämmchen
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Miriam Deering in Car (uncredited)
The Women
Crystal Allen
Susan and God
Susan Trexel
Johnny Guitar
Vienna
The Oscar
Joan Crawford
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Night Gallery
Miss Menlo
A Woman's Face
Anna Holm
Possessed
Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'
Strait-Jacket
Lucy Harbin
Possessed
Louise Howell
The Best of Everything
Amanda Farrow
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Letty Lynton
Letty Lynton
Sudden Fear
Myra Hudson Blaine
Strange Cargo
Julie
Lykke og krone
1962
Daisy Kenyon
Daisy Kenyon
The Merry Widow
Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
Forsaking All Others
Mary Clay
I Saw What You Did
Amy Nelson
Above Suspicion
Frances Myles
Reunion in France
Michele de la Becque
The Unknown
Nanon Zanzi
The Damned Don't Cry
Ethel Whitehead
Chained
Diane Lovering
The Karate Killers
Amanda True
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Flamingo Road
Lane Bellamy
The Boob
Jane
Berserk!
Monica Rivers
The Stolen Jools
Joan Crawford
The Midshipman
Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
This Woman Is Dangerous
Elizabeth Austin
The Big Parade of Comedy
Bobby (archive footage)
Our Modern Maidens
Billie Brown
Rain
Sadie Thompson
Montana Moon
Joan
The Gorgeous Hussy
Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal
The Circle
Young Lady Catherine
Dancing Lady
Janie Barlow
Dance, Fools, Dance
Bonnie Jordan
Sadie McKee
Sadie
They All Kissed the Bride
Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew
Mannequin
Jessie Cassidy
Humoresque
Helen Wright
Autumn Leaves
Millicent Wetherby
Female on the Beach
Lynn Markham
Trog
Dr. Brockton
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Mrs. Fay Cheyney
When Ladies Meet
Mary 'Minnie' Howard
Sally, Irene and Mary
Irene O'Dare
The Shining Hour
Olivia Riley Linden
The Casting Couch
1995
Today We Live
Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith
Zwischen Glück und Krone
1959
It's a Great Feeling
Joan Crawford (uncredited)
I Live My Life
Kay Bentley
Queen Bee
Eva Phillips
Our Blushing Brides
Geraldine 'Gerry' March
The Caretakers
Lucretia Terry
Goodbye, My Fancy
Agatha Reed
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Betty Burton
A Slave of Fashion
Mannequin (uncredited)
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
Strange Witness
Ruth Marshall
No More Ladies
Marcia Townsend Warren
The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary McKay
Twelve Miles Out
Jane
The Road to Edinburgh
Mary Andrews
The Bride Wore Red
Anni Pavlovitch
The Only Thing
Party Guest (uncredited)
Fast Workers
Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
Della
Della Chappell
Laughing Sinners
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens
This Modern Age
Valentine 'Val' Winters
The Green Fog
2018
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009
Our Dancing Daughters
Diana 'Di' Medford
Time, the Comedian
Art Student (as Lucille LeSueur)
The Law of the Range
Betty Dallas
Lady of the Night
Body Double for Norma Shearer
Across to Singapore
Priscilla Crowninshield
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Pretty Ladies
Bobby
Harriet Craig
Harriet Craig
West Point
Betty Channing
Bardelys the Magnificent
Court Gossip (uncredited)
Torch Song
Jenny Stewart
Untamed
Alice "Bingo" Dowling
The Understanding Heart
Monica Dale
Proud Flesh
Party Guest (uncredited)
One Must Die
1961
Spring Fever
Allie Monte
The Duke Steps Out
Susie
Love on the Run
Sally Parker
Four Walls
Frieda
The Taxi Dancer
Joselyn Poe
Paid
Mary Turner
Paris
The Girl
Dream of Love
Adrienne Lecouvreur
The Story of Esther Costello
Margaret Landi
Old Clothes
Mary Riley
Winners of the Wilderness
René Contrecoeur
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
Joan Fairchild
Journey to Murder
Host
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Joan Crawford
Rose-Marie
Rose-Marie
TV Shows (11)
The Lucy Show
Joan Crawford · 1 eps
The Virginian
Stephanie White · 1 eps
The Name of the Game
Committee Member (uncredited) · 1 eps
Route 66
Morgan Harper · 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Stella Faring · 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah / Melanie Davidson Hobbs · 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Amanda True · 1 eps
The Sixth Sense
Joan Fairchild · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Ann Howard · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Ruth Marshall · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Mary Andrews · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (56)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Great Performances
Self · 1 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 5 eps
The Oscars
Self · 8 eps
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 5 eps
Startime
Self · 1 eps
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Canteen
Self
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Self (archive footage)
The Tim Conway Show
Self · 1 eps
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Self (archive footage)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Self (archive footage) (voice)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage / uncredited)
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Self
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Self (uncredited)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
1925 Studio Tour
Self
The Romance of Celluloid
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Self (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self (archive footage)
At Home with Joan Crawford
Self
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
Self (archive footage)
Bette and Joan
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Self
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self (archive)
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Self (archive footage)
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Journey to the Unknown
Self - Host
This was the MARY
Self/Narrator
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Self (archive footage)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Self
Through Many Windows
Self - Narrator
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
Self (archive footage)
Blow-Ups of 1946
Self
How to Plan a Movie Murder
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Self
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
Self (archive)
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Self
