Joan Crawford
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Day of Death: May 10, 1977 (null)
Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – 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.
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Actor Bobby
Pretty Ladies
Actor Young Lady Catherine
The Circle
Actor Self
1925 Studio Tour
Actor Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Actor Party Guest (uncredited)
Proud Flesh
Actor Party Guest (uncredited)
The Only Thing
Actor Body Double for Norma Shearer
Lady of the Night
Actor Irene O'Dare
Sally, Irene and Mary
Actor Mannequin (uncredited)
A Slave of Fashion
Actor Mary Riley
Old Clothes
Actor Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
The Midshipman