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