Job Actress
Years active 1925-1972
Top Roles Party Guest, Letty Lynton, Myra Hudson, René Contrecoeur, Ethel Whitehead / Loran Hansen Forbes
Top GenresDrama, Romance, Comedy, Silent Films, Thriller/Suspense, Film Adaptation
Top TopicsBook-Based, Pre-Code Cinema, Based on Play
Top Collaborators (Director), (Producer), (Director), (Producer)
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Joan Crawford Overview:

Legendary actress, Joan Crawford, was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on Mar 23, 1905 in San Antonio, TX. Crawford died at the age of 72 on May 10, 1977 in New York City, NY and was laid to rest in Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, NY.

MINI BIO:

Dark-haired (earlier blonde), thick-browed, dominating American actress. After an apprenticeship playing bitchy, hard-headed flappers, the Crawford of the forties and fifties, great haunted eyes and jagged mouth to the fore, excelled as women born to suffer. Still in leading roles when past 50, she remains one of the few actresses to create her own genre, with its ingredients of melodrama, mayhem, murder, and mink. Academy Award for Mildred Pierce. Married to actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1929-1933), Franchot Tone (1935-1939), and Phillip Terry (1942-1946). Her last husband, a businessman, left her a widow in 1959. Died from a heart attack. Also Oscar-nominated for Possessed (1947 version) and Sudden Fear.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Joan Crawford was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce (as Mildred Pierce) in 1945.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1945Best ActressMildred Pierce (1945)Mildred PierceWon
1947Best ActressPossessed (1947)Louise HowellNominated
1952Best ActressSudden Fear (1952)Myra HudsonNominated
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Joan Crawford's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #15 on Sep 14, 1929.

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and Melvyn Douglas lead the cast in “A Woman’s Face”

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THE PAIRS THAT NEVER WERE: and Humphrey Bogart On November 25, 2024 By CarolIn Uncategorized Noirvember?s THE PAIRS THAT NEVER WERE goes out to two people whom I frankly cannot believe never made a movie together. I mean, of all the actors from Hollywo... Read full article


, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda in Otto Preminger's Production of “Daisy Kenyon”

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, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda in Otto Preminger's Production of “Daisy Kenyon” Daisy Kenyon (1947), based on the best-selling novel by Elizabeth Janeway, is one of many films referred to as “women’s pictures” during Hollywood’s Golden Age. In m... Read full article


, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda in Otto Preminger's Production of “Daisy Kenyon”

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, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda in Otto Preminger's Production of “Daisy Kenyon” Daisy Kenyon (1947), based on the best-selling novel by Elizabeth Janeway, is one of many films referred to as “women’s pictures” during Hollywood’s Golden Age. In m... Read full article


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Joan Crawford Quotes:

Jessie Cassidy: Eddie, I know that look in your eyes. You're saying, "What'd I do wrong now?" You didn't do anything wrong, Eddie. You never have, I guess for you, and you never will, because you don't do things for the same reasons as other people. You don't even live in the same world. You've got one all for yourself, the world by, for, and with Eddie Miller. Nobody's going to ever share your life, are they Eddie? They're just going to help you live it. Isn't that it?


Malabar the Mighty, Circus Strongman: Why do you always draw away from me?
Nanon Zanzi: Why isn't he different from other men! Why doesn't he keep his hands off me?
Nanon Zanzi: Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them!
Nanon Zanzi: Men! The beasts! God would show wisdom if he took the hands from all of them!
Nanon Zanzi: Forgive me, Alonzo... I did not mean you.
Nanon Zanzi: You are the one man I can come to without fear.


Vienna: Down there I sell whiskey and cards. All you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now which do you want?


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Joan Crawford Facts
In 1933, she appeared in a Coca-Cola print advertisement. Some years later, in 1955, she married Pepsi-Cola board chairman Alfred N. Steele.

Is portrayed by Barrie Youngfellow in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980) (TV) and by Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981)

She was a favorite model of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for their early experiments in animation ("The Hand Behind the Mouse," by Leslie Iwerks).

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