Joan Crawford
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.
183 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 183
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Great Performances
1971
The Virginian
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Route 66
1960
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
What's My Line?
1950
The Lucy Show
1962
The Name of the Game
1968
The Secret Storm
1954
The Oscars
1953
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Startime
1959
Grand Hotel
1932
The Sixth Sense
1972
General Electric Theater
1953
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
Mildred Pierce
1945
Johnny Guitar
1954
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
The Women
1939
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
A Woman's Face
1941
Sudden Fear
1952
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
Dancing Lady
1933
Night Gallery
1969
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Rain
1932
Possessed
1947
Trog
1970
Reunion in France
1942
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
That's Entertainment!
1974
Above Suspicion
1943
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
The Oscar
1966
Queen Bee
1955
Sadie McKee
1934
Complicated Women
2003
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Unknown
1927
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Possessed
1931
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Strait-Jacket
1964
I Saw What You Did
1965
Strange Cargo
1940
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
1972
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Daisy Kenyon
1947
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
Harriet Craig
1950
The Karate Killers
1967
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
Humoresque
1947
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
The Bride Wore Red
1937
Berserk!
1967
The Best of Everything
1959
Chained
1934
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Proud Flesh
1925
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
It's a Great Feeling
1949
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
Mannequin
1938
Autumn Leaves
1956
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Flamingo Road
1949
Our Dancing Daughters
1928
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Female on the Beach
1955
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
Della
1964
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926
The Merry Widow
1926
Letty Lynton
1932
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Love on the Run
1936
Today We Live
1933
We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931
They All Kissed the Bride
1942
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
Woman on the Run
1959
Zwischen Glück und Krone
1959
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996
The Circle
1925
I Live My Life
1935
The Shining Hour
1938
Laughing Sinners
1931
Torch Song
1953
The Caretakers
1963
This Woman Is Dangerous
1952
Blow-Ups of 1946
1946
Forsaking All Others
1934
Across to Singapore
1928
Our Blushing Brides
1930
And One Was Loyal
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
The Romance of Celluloid
1937
The Duke Steps Out
1929
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
1937
Pretty Ladies
1925
Fast Workers
1933
The Stolen Jools
1931
1925 Studio Tour
1925
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
2002
Lady of the Night
1925
Paid
1930
Untamed
1929
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
1994
Sally, Irene and Mary
1925
West Point
1928
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1926
The Casting Couch
1995
No More Ladies
1935
Dream of Love
1928
This Modern Age
1931
Journey to the Unknown
1969
Showbiz Ballyhoo
1982
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
2006
The Boob
1926
Journey to Murder
1971
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
1942
The Story of Esther Costello
1957
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
2007
Our Modern Maidens
1929
Twelve Miles Out
1927
The Road to Edinburgh
1954
Montana Moon
1930
One Must Die
1961
Winners Of The Wilderness
1927
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
2005
Strange Witness
1958
Lykke og krone
1962
Susan and God
1940
Rose-Marie
1928
A Slave of Fashion
1925
The Only Thing
1925
The Understanding Heart
1927
The Law of the Range
1928
The Midshipman
1925
When Ladies Meet
1941
Old Clothes
1925
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
Rebel Range
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Paris
1926
Spring Fever
1927
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009
This was the MARY
1968
The Taxi Dancer
1927
At Home with Joan Crawford
1953
The Shirley Eder Tapes
2012
Through Many Windows
1947
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
1938
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016
Bette and Joan
2017
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
2016
Possessed
2011
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
Four Walls
1928
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016
How to Plan a Movie Murder
1964
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Time, the Comedian
1925
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
1969