Joan Crawford
Acting
Born 1906-03-23
Died 1977-05-10
San Antonio, Texas, USA
188 credits
Academy Awards 1
Golden Globe Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 1953 Best Actress Nominated Sudden Fear
- 1948 Best Actress Nominated Possessed
- 1946 Best Actress Won Mildred Pierce
Golden Globe Awards 1 won
- 1970 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Great Performances
The Merv Griffin Show
The Virginian
The Lucy Show
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
What's My Line?
Route 66
The Secret Storm
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Oscars
The Name of the Game
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Startime
The Sixth Sense
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Mildred Pierce
Grand Hotel
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
The Oscar
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Women
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Johnny Guitar
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Possessed
A Woman's Face
Strait-Jacket
That's Entertainment!
The Unknown
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
Sudden Fear
Possessed
General Electric Theater
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Strange Cargo
Reunion in France
Daisy Kenyon
The Stolen Jools
Above Suspicion
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Rain
Flamingo Road
Night Gallery
Complicated Women
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Female on the Beach
The Midshipman
Humoresque
When Ladies Meet
Berserk!
Autumn Leaves
Queen Bee
Trog
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
The Karate Killers
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