Joan Crawford
Acting
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.
Bette and Joan
Self (archive footage)
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
Self (archive footage)
The Shirley Eder Tapes
Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Possessed
(archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
Betty Page the Totally Naked Truth
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
Self
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Self (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self (archive footage)
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
Self (archive)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self (archive footage)
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Self (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
Self (archive footage / uncredited)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self (archive footage)
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Self (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage)
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
Joan Fairchild
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Journey to Murder
Host
Trog
Dr. Brockton
Night Gallery
Miss Menlo
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Journey to the Unknown
Self - Host
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Self
This was the MARY
Self/Narrator
Berserk!
Monica Rivers
The Karate Killers
Amanda True
The Oscar
Joan Crawford
I Saw What You Did
Amy Nelson
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Miriam Deering in Car (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Bobby (archive footage)
Della
Della Chappell
Strait-Jacket
Lucy Harbin
How to Plan a Movie Murder
Self
The Caretakers
Lucretia Terry
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Blanche Hudson
Lykke og krone
One Must Die
The Best of Everything
Amanda Farrow
Woman on the Run
Susan Conrad
Zwischen Glück und Krone
Strange Witness
Ruth Marshall
The Story of Esther Costello
Margaret Landi
Autumn Leaves
Millicent Wetherby
Queen Bee
Eva Phillips
Female on the Beach
Lynn Markham
The Road to Edinburgh
Mary Andrews
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Johnny Guitar
Vienna
Torch Song
Jenny Stewart
At Home with Joan Crawford
Self
Sudden Fear
Myra Hudson Blaine
This Woman Is Dangerous
Elizabeth Austin
Goodbye, My Fancy
Agatha Reed
Harriet Craig
Harriet Craig
The Damned Don't Cry
Ethel Whitehead
It's a Great Feeling
Joan Crawford (uncredited)
Flamingo Road
Lane Bellamy
Daisy Kenyon
Daisy Kenyon
Through Many Windows
Self - Narrator
Possessed
Louise Howell
Humoresque
Helen Wright
Blow-Ups of 1946
Self
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
Hollywood Canteen
Self
Above Suspicion
Frances Myles
Reunion in France
Michele de la Becque
They All Kissed the Bride
Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
Self
When Ladies Meet
Mary 'Minnie' Howard
A Woman's Face
Anna Holm
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Susan and God
Susan Trexel
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Strange Cargo
Julie
The Women
Crystal Allen
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Joan Crawford
The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary McKay
The Shining Hour
Olivia Riley Linden
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Self
Mannequin
Jessie Cassidy
The Bride Wore Red
Anni Pavlovitch
The Romance of Celluloid
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Self (uncredited)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Mrs. Fay Cheyney
Love on the Run
Sally Parker
The Gorgeous Hussy
Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal
I Live My Life
Kay Bentley
No More Ladies
Marcia Townsend Warren
Forsaking All Others
Mary Clay
Chained
Diane Lovering
Sadie McKee
Sadie
Dancing Lady
Janie Barlow
Fast Workers
Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
Today We Live
Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith
Rain
Sadie Thompson
Grand Hotel
Flämmchen
Letty Lynton
Letty Lynton
Possessed
Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'
This Modern Age
Valentine 'Val' Winters
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Self
Laughing Sinners
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens
The Stolen Jools
Joan Crawford
Dance, Fools, Dance
Bonnie Jordan
Paid
Mary Turner
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Self
Our Blushing Brides
Geraldine 'Gerry' March
Montana Moon
Joan
Untamed
Alice "Bingo" Dowling
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self
Our Modern Maidens
Billie Brown
The Duke Steps Out
Susie
Dream of Love
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Our Dancing Daughters
Diana 'Di' Medford
Four Walls
Frieda
Across to Singapore
Priscilla Crowninshield
Rose-Marie
Rose-Marie
The Law of the Range
Betty Dallas
West Point
Betty Channing
Spring Fever
Allie Monte
Twelve Miles Out
Jane
The Unknown
Nanon Zanzi
The Understanding Heart
Monica Dale
The Taxi Dancer
Joselyn Poe
Winners Of The Wilderness
René Contrecoeur
The Merry Widow
Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
Paris
The Girl
The Boob
Jane
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Betty Burton
Sally, Irene and Mary
Irene O'Dare
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Only Thing
Party Guest (uncredited)
Old Clothes
Mary Riley
The Midshipman
Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
The Circle
Young Lady Catherine
Pretty Ladies
Bobby
A Slave of Fashion
Mannequin (uncredited)
Proud Flesh
Party Guest (uncredited)
1925 Studio Tour
Self
Lady of the Night
Body Double for Norma Shearer