Joan Crawford

Oyuncu Doğum: 1906-03-23 • San Antonio, Texas, USA

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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

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Filmografi (Rol Aldığı Yapımlar)

Zwischen Glück und Krone

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Lykke og krone

The Casting Couch

A Star Is Born World Premiere

The Understanding Heart

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Küçük Bebeğe Ne Oldu?

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Winners of the Wilderness

The Taxi Dancer

Mildred Pierce

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Bilinmeyen

West Point

Harriet Craig

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Jaws: Efsanenin 50. Yılı

Dişi Kartal

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

That's Entertainment!

Bardelys the Magnificent

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Hollywood Canteen

Dream of Love

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Sudden Fear

The Women

Della

Proud Flesh

The Big Parade of Comedy

Four Walls

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

That's Entertainment! III

The Oscars

What's My Line?

The Lucy Show

Flamingo Road

Neşeli Beste

The Damned Don't Cry

Sadie McKee

Chained

Strange Cargo

Across to Singapore

Letty Lynton

The Story of Esther Costello

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death

Journey to Murder

Rose-Marie

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Romance of Celluloid

Paris

The Midshipman

The Name of the Game

Autumn Leaves

Büyük Otel

Çılgın

Dancing Lady

Possessed

When Ladies Meet

Spring Fever

Complicated Women

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

The Colgate Comedy Hour

A Woman's Face

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

The Merv Griffin Show

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater

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