
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.

Going Hollywood: The '30s

A Star Is Born World Premiere

何がジェーンに起ったか?

ミルドレッド・ピアース

知られぬ人

Harriet Craig

Winners Of The Wilderness

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

大砂塵

West Point

That's Entertainment!

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Four Walls

Hollywood Canteen

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Sudden Fear

Della

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

The Women

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

ザ・ルーシー・ショー

Flamingo Road

The Damned Don't Cry

Strange Cargo

The Story of Esther Costello

Dream of Love

That's Entertainment! III

The Romance of Celluloid

The Understanding Heart

Paris

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What's My Line?

Humoresque

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Autumn Leaves

蜃気楼の女

That's Entertainment, Part II

Sadie McKee

Spring Fever

失われた心

Dancing Lady

Chained

Across to Singapore

Letty Lynton

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Name of the Game

A Woman's Face

When Ladies Meet

The Bride Wore Red

The Merry Widow

Complicated Women

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

スティーブ・マーティンの四つ数えろ

Daisy Kenyon

Rain

The Shining Hour

The Big Parade of Comedy

Strait-Jacket

Susan and God

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Paid

The Taxi Dancer

Love on the Run

Dance, Fools, Dance

General Electric Theater

バージニアン

Reunion in France

I Live My Life

The Best of Everything

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Proud Flesh

Night Gallery

Route 66

I Saw What You Did

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Today We Live

Goodbye, My Fancy

At Home with Joan Crawford

The Merv Griffin Show

The Caretakers

1925 Studio Tour

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Above Suspicion

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death

Twelve Miles Out

Blow-Ups of 1946

The Midshipman

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Sixth Sense

Untamed

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Forsaking All Others

Mannequin

They All Kissed the Bride

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

初陣ハリー

Torch Song

The Boob

Great Performances

This Woman Is Dangerous

This Modern Age

Lady of the Night

Female on the Beach

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Stolen Jools

The Ice Follies of 1939

Berserk!

Our Modern Maidens

Sally, Irene and Mary

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

デパートの横顔

The Gorgeous Hussy

Laughing Sinners

The Circle

The Duke Steps Out

Rose-Marie

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

The Karate Killers

Wir schalten um auf Hollywood

The Oscar

Pretty Ladies

Fast Workers

No More Ladies

Trog

Montana Moon

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

How to Plan a Movie Murder

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Old Clothes

The Law of the Range

The Only Thing

A Slave of Fashion

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Bette and Joan

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

Journey to the Unknown

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'

The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel

Journey to Murder

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill

Through Many Windows

From the Ends of the Earth

Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'

This was the MARY

Strange Witness

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

One Must Die

The Road to Edinburgh

And One Was Loyal

Rebel Range

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture

Showbiz Ballyhoo

Zwischen Glück und Krone

Lykke og krone

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

Betty Page the Totally Naked Truth