Joan Crawford
Acting
🎂 1906-03-23
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.
Cast credits(179)
Self
1962
Stephanie White
1962
Self
1971
Morgan Harper
1960
Joan Crawford
1962
Stella Faring
1956
Sarah / Melanie Davidson Hobbs
1956
Committee Member (uncredited)
1968
Self
1953
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1962
Self
1950
Amanda True
1964
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Joan Borman Kane
1954
Joan Crawford
1966
Self (archive footage)
2012
Self (archive footage)
2006
Mildred Pierce
1945
Joan Fairchild
1972
Host
1971
Monica Dale
1927
Blanche Hudson
1962
Flämmchen
1932
Self (archive footage)
2007
Self (archive footage)
1972
Amy Nelson
1965
Self (archive footage)
1975
Amanda Farrow
1959
Bobby (archive footage)
1964
(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
1982
Stella Faring
Self
1944
Lucy Harbin
1964
Self (archive footage)
1982
Ethel Whitehead
1950
Joan Crawford (uncredited)
1949
Self (archive footage)
1959
Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
2004
Self
1938
Self
1954
Allie Monte
1927
Monica Rivers
1967
Letty Lynton
1932
Crystal Allen
1939
Lucretia Terry
1963
Jessie Cassidy
1938
Elizabeth Austin
1952
(archive footage)
1974
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Mary McKay
1939
Vienna
1954
(archive footage)
1976
Bonnie Jordan
1931
Ruth Marshall
1958
Agatha Reed
1951
Joan Crawford
1931
Michele de la Becque
1942
Ann Howard
1953
Ruth Marshall
1953
Mary Andrews
1953
René Contrecoeur
1927
Self (archive footage)
2003
Nanon Zanzi
1927
Joan
1930
Julie
1940
Self
1989
Self
1930
Harriet Craig
1950
Susan Trexel
1940
Self (archive footage / uncredited)
2000
Margaret Landi
1957
Lynn Markham
1955
Self
1953
Joan Fairchild
1972
Margaret Hughes
Self (archive footage)
1982
Self
1931
(archive footage)
1994
Eva Phillips
1955
Rose-Marie
1928
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens
1931
1961
Ann Howard
Self
1939
Valentine 'Val' Winters
1931
Self
1940
Helen Wright
1947
Mrs. Fay Cheyney
1937
Self (archive footage)
2009
Marcia Townsend Warren
1935
Self
1929
Diane Lovering
1934
Dr. Brockton
1970
Self (archive footage)
2002
Dr. Brockton (archive footage)
2004
Joan Crawford
1939
Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith
1933
Della Chappell
1964
Millicent Wetherby
1956
Amanda True
1967
Jane
1927
Kay Bentley
1935
Sadie
1934
Party Guest (uncredited)
1925
Anna Holm
1941
Self (archive footage)
1937
Diana 'Di' Medford
1928
Various Roles (archive footage)
2008
Self (archive footage)
2006
Self (archive footage)
1996
Mary Turner
1930
Mary Riley
1925
Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
1933
Olivia Riley Linden
1938
Lane Bellamy
1949
Party Guest (uncredited)
1925
(archive footage)
1984
Sally Parker
1936
Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
1926
Billie Brown
1929
Priscilla Crowninshield
1928
Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal
1936
Janie Barlow
1933
Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew
1942
Self
1940
Bobby
1925
Self - Host
1969
Joselyn Poe
1927
Alice "Bingo" Dowling
1929
Mary Clay
1934
Miss Menlo
1969
Myra Hudson Blaine
1952
Jerry March
1930
Mary 'Minnie' Howard
1941
Sadie Thompson
1932
Self
1946
Self/Narrator
1968
Body Double for Norma Shearer
1925
Anni Pavlovitch
1937
Daisy Kenyon
1947
Louise Howell
1947
Frances Myles
1943
Self (uncredited)
1937
Susan Conrad
1959
Betty Dallas
1928
Jane
1926
Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'
1931
Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
1925
Self (archive footage)
2007
Betty Channing
1928
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
1969
Mary Andrews
Betty Burton
1926
Jenny Stewart
1953
Frieda
1928
Susie
1929
Self
2007
Self
1925
Irene O'Dare
1925
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1928
Self
1942
Self (archive footage)
2016
Self
1964
Self
1969
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Girl
1926
Self (archive footage)
1994
Self
2012
Young Lady Catherine
1925
Self (archive footage)
2002
Mannequin (uncredited)
1925
2010
Self (archive footage)
2016
Self (archive footage)
2016
(archive footage)
2011
Self - Narrator
1947