Joan Crawford : Oscar Winning Actress

 

Overview

Born : March 23, 1906 in San Antonio, Texas, USA

Died : May 10, 1977 in New York City, New York, USA  (heart attack)

Birth Name : Lucille Fay LeSueur

Nicknames : Billie Cassin  Cranberry  Billie

Height : 5' 3" (1.6 m)

Joan Crawford was conceived Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1904, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a clothing worker. When she was conceived, her folks had isolated, and when she was a youngster, she'd had three stepfathers. It was anything but a simple life; Crawford worked an assortment of modest positions. She was a decent artist, however, and - - maybe considering dance to be her pass to a vocation in Broadway - - she participated in a few challenges, one of which handled her a spot in a melody line. After a short time, she was moving in enormous Midwestern and East Coast urban communities. After just about two years, she gathered her packs and moved to Hollywood. Still up in the air to succeed, and not long after showing up she got her previously nibbled part, as a showgirl in Pretty Ladies (1925).

Three movies immediately followed; albeit the jobs weren't a lot to talk about, she kept working. All through 1927 and mid 1928, she was projected in little parts, yet that finished with the job of Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928), which raised her to star status. Crawford had cleared the primary large obstacle; presently came the second, as talkies. Many stars of the silents saw their professions vanish, either on the grounds that their voices weren't especially charming or on the grounds that their voices, sufficiently satisfying, didn't match the public's assumptions (for instance, a few fans felt that John Gilbert's tenor didn't exactly match his extremely manly persona). However, Crawford wasn't felled by sound. Her first talkie, Untamed (1929), was a triumph. As the 1930s advanced, Crawford became probably the greatest star at MGM. She was in excellent condition in movies like Grand Hotel (1932), Sadie McKee (1934), No More Ladies (1935), and Love on the Run (1936); film benefactors were excited, and studio leaders were fulfilled.

By the mid 1940s, MGM was done giving her plum jobs; newbies had shown up in Hollywood, and people in general needed to see them. Crawford left MGM for rival Warner Bros., and in 1945 she handled a truly mind-blowing job. Mildred Pierce (1945) offered her a chance to show her reach as an entertainer, and her exhibition as a lady headed to give her little girl everything collected Crawford her solitary, Oscar for Best Actress. The next year she showed up with John Garfield in the generally welcomed Humoresque (1946). In 1947, she showed up as Louise Graham in Possessed (1947); again she was assigned for a Best Actress from the Academy, yet she lost to Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (1947). Crawford kept on selecting her jobs cautiously, and in 1952 she was named for a third time frame, for her portrayal of Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear (1952). This time the desired Oscar went to Shirley Booth, for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). Crawford's vocation eased back after that; she showed up in minor jobs until 1962, when she and Bette Davis co-featured in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Their longstanding competition might have helped fuel their sensationally nasty and generally welcomed exhibitions. (Prior in their professions, Davis said of Crawford, "She's laid down with each male star at MGM aside from Lassie," and Crawford said of Davis, "I don't loathe [her] despite the fact that the press needs me to. I loathe her. I'm not sure the way in which she fabricated a vocation out of a bunch of idiosyncrasies rather than genuine acting capacity. Remove the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those entertaining cut words, and what do you have? She's fake, however I surmise people in general truly enjoys that".)

Crawford's last debut on the cinema was in a lemon called. Going to vodka to an ever increasing extent, she was barely seen a while later. On May 10, 1977, Joan passed on from a coronary failure in New York City. She was 71 years of age. She had excluded her embraced little girl Christina and child Christopher; the previous composed a detailed account book called "Mommie Dearest", The Sixth Sense distributed in 1978. The book cast Crawford in a negative light and was cause for much discussion, especially among her companions and associates, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first spouse. (In 1981, Faye Dunaway featured in Mommie Dearest (1981) which excelled in the cinematic world.) Crawford is entombed in a similar catacomb as individual MGM star Judy Garland, in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.Entered Stephens College, an elegant college for ladies in Columbia, Missouri, in 1922, however left before her first scholastic year was over as she believed she was not scholastically ready for college.

Filled in as a lift administrator at Harzfeld's Department Store in midtown Kansas City, Missouri.

Each time Crawford wedded, she changed the name of her Brentwood bequest and introduced all new latrine seats.

Entombed at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, USA.

Was approached to take over Carole Lombard 's job in They All Kissed the Bride (1942) after Lombard passed on in a plane accident getting back from a conflict bond visit. Crawford then, at that point, gave every last bit of her compensation to the Red Cross, which observed Lombard's body, and instantly terminated her representative for taking his typical 10%.

She was so committed to her fans that she actually reacted all of the time to her fan mail by composing reactions on blue paper and signing it. A lot of her extra time and ends of the week were spent doing this.

After her companion Steven Spielberg hit it large, Joan sent him occasional notes of congrats. The last one came fourteen days before her demise.

She showed chief Steven Spielberg how to burp while recording their episode of Night Gallery (1969).

Sketch artist Milton Caniff asserted he based the personality of "Mythical serpent Lady" in his famous "Terry and the Pirates" funny cartoon on Crawford.

At the hour of her passing, the main photos showed in her loft were of Barbara Stanwyck and President John F. Kennedy.

Once little girl in-law of Douglas Fairbanks. Previous cousin-in-law of Lucile Fairbanks. Previous niece-in-law of Robert Fairbanks.

Brought into the world at 10:00 PM.

She had a neatness fixation. She used to clean up at regular intervals and pursue visitors around her home cleaning all that they contacted, particularly door handles and pieces from her china set. She could never smoke a cigarette except if she opened the pack herself, and could never utilize one more cigarette out of that pack on the off chance that another person had contacted it.

Was constrained by MGM manager Louis B. Mayer to drop her genuine name Lucille LeSueur in light of the fact that it sounded a lot of like "sewer".

Her 1933 agreement with MGM was so point by point and restricting, it even had a provision in it demonstrating what time she was relied upon to be sleeping every evening.

She was named as "the other lady" in something like two separations.

At whatever point she remained in a lodging, regardless of how great or trustworthy it was, she generally scoured the washroom herself prior to utilizing it.

In the mid 1930s, burnt out on playing carefree flappers, she needed to change her picture. Meager lips would not accomplish for her; she needed large lips. Overlooking Crawford's normal lip shapes, Max Factor ran a smear of shading across her upper and lower lips; it was exactly what she needed. To Max, the Crawford look, which turned into her brand name, was consistently "the smear". To the public it became known as "Tracker's Bow Lips". Crawford is regularly attributed as assisting with directing America's bias against lipstick.

Her tidiness fixation drove her to favor showers to tubs, as she detested sitting in her own bathwater.

In her last a long time at MGM, Crawford was given powerless contents in the expectations that she'd break her agreement. Two movies she wanted to show up in were Random Harvest (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). The two movies went to splendid new star Greer Garson all things being equal, and Crawford left the studio before long.

"Joan Arden" was picked as the youthful star's screen name after a write-in challenge was held in the pages of "Film Weekly" magazine, however a piece player approached and said she was at that point utilizing it. Mrs. Marie M. Tisdale, a disabled lady living in Albany, New York, won $500 for presenting the next in line name "Joan Crawford".

She loathed her "new" name and at first urged others to articulate it Jo-Anne Crawford. In private, she jumped at the chance to be alluded to as Billie.

A 2002 TV history uncovered that her contempt of wire holders got from her destitution as a youngster and her encounters working with her mom in what more likely than not been a horrid occupation in a clothing.

She generally thought to be The Unknown (1927) a major defining moment for her. She said it wasn't until working with Lon Chaney in this film that she took in the distinction between remaining before a camera and acting before a camera. She said that was generally because of Chaney and his serious fixation, and after that experience she said she worked a lot harder to improve as an entertainer.

Sister of entertainer Hal Le Sueur.

Chosen to embrace youngsters in the wake of experiencing a progression of premature deliveries with her spouses and being told by specialists that she could always be unable to have a child.

At the point when her little girl Christina Crawford chose to turn into an entertainer, Joan requested that she change her last name, so it wouldn't create the impression that Christina was utilizing it to additional her vocation. Christina rejected.

As a kid, Joan was playing in the front yard of her home in Texas when she got a huge piece of glass held up in her foot. After it was taken out, specialists told her she would probably never walk again without a limp. Not entirely settled to be an artist, so she working on strolling and moving each day for north of a half year until she had the option to stroll without torment. In addition to the fact that she made a full recuperation, she likewise satisfied her fantasy about turning into a melody artist.

Embraced every last bit of her youngsters aside from Christopher Crawford while she was unmarried. Since the territory of California didn't permit single people to take on youngsters around then, Joan needed to look for offices in the eastern United States. The office accountable for the reception of Christina was subsequently uncovered as a component of a bootleg market child ring.

Was moving in a chorale line in 1925 when she was spotted by MGM and offered a screen test. Despite the fact that she needed more than anything to keep moving, she turned down the proposal from the get go. Another melody young lady convinced her to attempt the test, be that as it may, and half a month after the fact she was put under agreement.

At the point when she took on her oldest little girl, Christina Crawford, she originally named her "Joan Jr.". Child pictures from the book "Mommie, Dearest" show child Christina lying on a towel with "Joan, Jr." monogrammed on it. Afterward, because of reasons that must be guessed, Joan changed the child's name to Christina. Joan did likewise to her took on child, who was named "Phillip Terry, Jr." after entertainer Phillip Terry, to whom she was hitched at the time he was embraced. After her separation from Terry was settled, she changed the kid's name to Christopher.

Taken on one more child in the mid 1940s, yet during a magazine talk with she unveiled the area of his introduction to the world, and his natural mother displayed at her Brentwood home needing the child back. Feeling that a battle would hurt the prosperity of the kid, Joan gave him back to his mom, who then, at that point, offered him to another family.

Never loved the name "Crawford", telling her companion William Haines that it sounded an excessive amount of like "Crayfish". He answered that it was far superior to "Cranberry," which turned into the moniker he utilized for Crawford for north of 50 years.

Blue Öyster Cult composed a melody about her, named "Joan Crawford".

Embraced four youngsters: Christina Crawford, Christopher Crawford, and twins Cindy Crawford and Cathy Crawford.

Her little tap moving in The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) was the principal discernible tap dance on the screen.

Her Oscar statuette for Mildred Pierce (1945) went up for sale after her demise and sold for $68,000. The sale house had anticipated a top offered of $15,000.

Her notoriety developed so rapidly after her name was changed to Joan Crawford that two movies in which she was as yet charged as Lucille Le Sueur: Old Clothes (1925) and The Only Thing (1925) were reviewed, and the billings were adjusted.

WAMPAS Baby of 1926

She was a most loved model of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for their initial examinations in activity ("The Hand Behind the Mouse," by Leslie Iwerks).

Met her organic dad just once when he visited her on the arrangement of Chained (1934). She could never see him again.

She was casted a ballot the 47th Greatest Movie Star ever by Entertainment Weekly.

In the wake of being endorsed by MGM, somebody endeavored to coerce cash from the studio by asserting they had an explicit film that included a youthful Crawford. The endeavor bombed when MGM called attention to they couldn't demonstrate the entertainer in the film was Crawford. The episode was referenced in a few accounts.

Was moved toward two times by the makers of the Airport debacle film series. She was offered two unique jobs in both Airport 1975 (1974) and Airport '77 (1977), however rejected.

After her significant other Alfred Steele passed on, she kept on establishing a spot for him during supper.

In spite of the fact that she asserted her most youthful girls Cathy and Cindy were twins, most sources- - including her two more seasoned kids - guarantee they were only two infants brought into the world with regards to a month separated. Her two more seasoned youngsters guaranteed they couldn't be twins since they didn't look anything the same. In the mid 1990s Cathy observed their introduction to the world endorsement, which demonstrated that they were for sure twins, brought into the world on January 13, 1947. The way that they were brotherly twins, rather than indistinguishable, can represent the way that they didn't resemble the other the same. The twins at last met their introduction to the world dad and other organic family members. They discovered that their introduction to the world mother had passed on from kidney disappointment not long after birth and that their dad, who had not been hitched to their mom, didn't learn about them until after it was past the point of no return. They were sold illicitly to Crawford by Tennessee Children's Home Society chief Georgia Tann.

She has a granddaughter, Chrystal, from child Christopher. She has a granddaughter Carla, conceived c. 1970, from little girl Cathy. She has eight grandkids by and large (four from Christopher and two each from Cindy and Cathy).

She has a grandson, Casey LaLonde, by her little girl Cathy. He was conceived c. 1972.

Is depicted by Barrie Youngfellow in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980) and by Oscar victors Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981) and Jessica Lange in Feud: Bette and Joan (2017).

She had English, just as modest quantities of French (the beginning of her last name) and Welsh, heritage.

In AFI's 100 Years 100 Stars, she was positioned the #10 Female Greatest Screen Legend.

Frequently wore shoulder braces.

Was exceptionally dear companions with William Haines and his accomplice Jimmy Shields from right off the bat in her profession until Haines' passing. A remarkable new entertainer, Haines had rejected MGM's interest of a joke union with redirect consideration from his long-standing relationship with Shields. Crawford regularly alluded to them as one of the longest, most joyful relationships in Hollywood.

Her exhibition as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce (1945) is positioned #93 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Embraced four kids. Her two most established kids, Christina Crawford and Chistopher were totally rejected from her will. The other two got the unassuming measure of $77,500 each out of Crawford's $2 million home.

Referenced in thanks by Courtney Love in the liner notes of Hole's collection "Big name Skin".

In Italy, practically every last bit of her movies were named by Tina Lattanzi and in the fifties predominantly by Lydia Simoneschi. She was once named by Gemma Griarotti in the second naming of Grand Hotel (1932).

She was Fred Astaire's first on-screen dance accomplice. They showed up in Dancing Lady (1933).

Pay for 1941, $195,673.

Had once said that Clark Gable was the main man she had at any point genuinely adored.

In 1959, upon the passing of her significant other Alfred Steele, CEO of the Pepsi-Cola Company, she wouldn't surrender her seat on the governing body until her constrained retirement in 1973. She acquired $60,000 each year as a board part and was a resolute ally of the item, requesting that it get noticeable position in her movies, and voyaged widely as a generosity diplomat for the organization.

In 1933 she showed up in a Coca-Cola print promotion. After 22 years she wedded Pepsi-Cola board executive Alfred Steele.

While visiting the television show circuit to elevate What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Bette Davis let one know questioner that when she and Crawford were first proposed for the leads, Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner answered: "I wouldn't give a stopped nickel for both of those two old broads." Recalling the story, Davis giggled at her own cost. The next day, she got a message from Crawford: "In future, kindly don't allude to me as an old wide!".

She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1752 Vine St.

Her little girl Christina Crawford experienced an ovarian sore in 1968 while showing up on the drama The Secret Storm (1954). While Christina was recuperating from a medical procedure, Joan- - 63 years of age at that point - briefly assumed control over Christina's job as a 28-year-old on the show. Christina wrote in her book "Mommie Dearest" that when she watched her mom's scenes on the broadcast, it was clear to her that Crawford had been drinking during the taping.

Previous relative of Harvey Medlinsky.

Was in thought for the piece of Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940), however Rosalind Russell was projected all things being equal.

She was a functioning individual from the Hollywood Democratic Committee and was extremely liberal for her entire life. She was an ally of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy.

Subsequent to joining Warner Bros., she was searching for her first job at the studio. Jack L. Warner had her as a primary concern for the job of Kathryn Mason in Conflict (1945) and sent the content for the film to her. Notwithstanding, subsequent to perusing the content, she advised her representative to tell Warner that "Joan Crawford never bites the dust in her films, and she never at any point loses her man to anybody".

She once said in a meeting that she and her most despised opponent and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) costar Bette Davis didn't shared anything for all intents and purpose. In actuality, they had a modest bunch of likenesses in their own lives. The two of them had fathers who deserted their families at a youthful age, they rose from destitution to progress while breaking into films during the last part of the 1920s and mid 1930s, had kin and moms who drained them monetarily once they became renowned, became Oscar-winning driving women, were steadfast liberal Democrats and women's activists, had four spouses, had embraced kids, and had girls who composed books upbraiding them as terrible moms.

She was companions with: Van Johnson, Cesar Romero, Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy, Ann Blyth, Gary Gray, Marlene Dietrich, Anita Loos, Rosalind Russell, Virginia Bruce, and George Cukor.

Her cherished performer was Glenn Miller and she particularly adored his 1939 tune "Evening glow Serenade".

In January 2014, she was respected as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

Was considered for the job of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar champs to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face, Crawford's being for Mildred Pierce (1945). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.

Was the 26th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Mildred Pierce (1945) at The eighteenth Academy Awards on March 7, 1946.

Principal was the one significant studio Crawford never made a film for, in spite of the fact that she came extremely close. In mid 1953 she was in converses with star as Sylvia Merril in the Irving Asher creation of "Lisbon", a worldwide government agent story adjusted from a brief tale by 'Martin Rackin' (qv(. In any case, the film was racked when after a few modifies Asher and Crawford weren't certain with regards to the strength of the content. She and chief Nicholas Ray (who had been employed to coordinate "Lisbon") both proceeded to film the 1954 western Johnny Guitar (1954) for Republic Pictures. It was Republic that wound up making Lisbon (1956) with Maureen O'Hara playing Sylvia Merril.

In 1934, Crawford reached the specialist who had played out her dental and facial tasks in 1928, William Branch, for which there were follow-up methodology in 1932 and 1933. She requested that he assist her with fostering a program through which she would endorse the medical clinic bills for down and out patients who had once worked in any way in the entertainment world. These individuals would get all fundamental treatment at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, where she supplied many rooms and a careful suite. Every one of the bills were shipped off her and instantly and secretly paid for, without alluding them to her business supervisor. The course of action was made on condition that her name not be utilized, and that she get no credit or exposure for her altruistic work in any capacity. Years after the fact, when her gifts were found and she was freely lauded, Crawford faked obliviousness of the whole endeavor. As per a classified clinic report made in 1939, "In the two years after 1937, in excess of 390 significant medical procedures were finished. Joan Crawford took care of the bills, she never knew individuals for whom she was paying, and she couldn't have cared less.".

In his self-portrayal, Jackie Cooper claims he engaged in extramarital relations with Crawford when he was her young neighbor.

At the Academy Awards show for 1961 (1962), Crawford gave Maximilian Schell his "Best Actor" Oscar; the next year, Schell, as moderator of the "Best Actress" grant, introduced the Oscar to Crawford, who was tolerating for missing champ Anne Bancroft, in what turned into a vital second in the fracture among Crawford and Bette Davis. Crawford wasn't selected, however her co-star Davis was for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). She was harmed yet at the same time needed the spotlight to beam on her on Oscar night, so she called the New York-based chosen people Geraldine Page and Bancroft and told them on the off chance that they can't go to the function in California, she'll acknowledge for their sake assuming one of them wins. The two entertainers were in wonderment of Crawford and acknowledged her proposition. Davis figured she would win, which would have made her the principal entertainer to win three Oscars, despite the fact that no entertainer had at any point won for a ghastliness/tension film by then. At the point when Bancroft's name was declared as the champ, Crawford strolled beyond a shocked Davis and acknowledged the honor and modeled for photos with different victors. The fracture between the two stars won't ever mend. However in 1987, 10 years after Crawford kicked the bucket, Davis told Bryant Gumbel that Crawford was an expert to work with, since she displayed as expected and knew her lines. She then, at that point, let Barbara Walters know that she won't discolor Crawford's achievements: "She made considerable progress from a young lady from where she came from. This, I won't ever detract from her".

During her experience on the Pepsi-Cola directorate, at whatever point she and the current leader of Coca-Cola turned out to be in a similar eatery simultaneously, every one of them would send the other a container of the other's item.

Showed up close by Diane Baker in three movies: The Best of Everything (1959), Della (1965) and Strait-Jacket (1964). In the last two, she played Baker's mom.

During recording of her episode of Night Gallery (1969), its chief, the then-obscure Steven Spielberg, gave her the endowment of a solitary red rose in a Pepsi-Cola bottle. At that point, she was as yet an individual from the soda monster's directorate.

The demise of her fourth spouse, Alfred Steele, crushed her monetarily just as inwardly. After he kicked the bucket it was found that he had acquired cash from Pepsi-Cola against his future compensation, and when he died she was left with enormous obligations to cover. Her critical monetary circumstance is one of the principle reasons- - beside the way that she just adored working- - for the inexorably dull undertakings she endorsed on for in her later profession.

Profiled in the book "Johnny Mack Brown's Saddle Gals" by Bobby Copeland.

As indicated by Joan, "You make toys. You don't make stars" (refered to in 'A Tribute to Joan Crawford', in Film Fan Monthly # 138, December 1972).

Is depicted by Jessica Lange in Feud: Bette and Joan (2017).

She co-featured in eight films with Clark Gable: Dance, Fools, Dance (1931), Laughing Sinners (1931), Possessed (1931), Dancing Lady (1933), Chained (1934), Forsaking All Others (1934), Love on the Run (1936), and Strange Cargo (1940). They additionally both showed up, uncredited, as additional items in The Merry Widow (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).

Her first screen name was chosen by a magazine contest, being Joan Arden. After two motion pictures an extra called Joan Arden sued Metro thus her name must be changed and the subsequent option from the opposition was picked. Joan Crawford.

She and Bette Davis were projected in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) by Robert Aldrich in the desire for rehashing the accomplishment of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Bette got a makers credit and planned to make things hard for Joan who in the long run professed to be too sick to even consider working making creation be postponed bringing about her being dropped and supplanted by Olivia de Havilland. Joan just found the news on the radio after it had been spilled to the press, purportedly by Bette.

Girl of Thomas (1868-1938), brought into the world in the territory of Tennessee, and Anna Belle (née Johnson) LeSueur (1884-1958), brought into the world in the province of Texas.

She was the first decision for Martha Kent in Superman (1978), yet she was too sick to even consider taking the part and passed on prior to recording began.

She was considered for Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950), however she was at that point focused on The Damned Don't Cry (1950). The part went to her chief opponent Bette Davis.

On August 31, 2018, she was respected with a day of her film work during the TCM Summer Under The Stars.

Stephen Sondheim composed his exemplary melody 'I'm Still Here' from the melodic 'Imprudences' in light of her life and profession - the tune portrays an entertainer going from destitution to glitzy symbol, then, at that point, through habit and recovery to turning into a personification of her old persona, however enduring in any case, as Crawford had.

She has showed up in six movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, by and large or tastefully" huge: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Grand Hotel (1932), The Women (1939), Mildred Pierce (1945), Johnny Guitar (1954) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).

Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers and Jean Harlow lived only a couple of miles separated in Kansas City, Missouri from 1917-1921. Jean Harlow likewise lived in Kansas City and Ginger Rogers lived in Independence, Missouri. A couple of years after the fact Harry S. Truman's home was situated between where the prospective stars grew up.

It is possible, however not affirmed, that, in 1924, she wedded saxophonist James Welton, whom she met during an appearance on a show called "Honest Eyes", and that they lived respectively momentarily; yet she never talked with regards to this relationship in her later years.

Per the 1910 enumeration, Crawford was living in Lawton, Oklahoma, with her mom and her progression father, Henry J. Cassin. As indicated by the statistics, Cassin was recorded as Crawford's mom's first spouse. In Lawton, Cassin ran the Ramsey Opera House, booking such assorted and noted entertainers as Anna Pavlova and Eva Tanguay. As a kid, Crawford, who favored the moniker "Billie", delighted in watching vaudeville acts perform on the phase of her stepfather's theater.

Preceding entering films she functioned as a shop young lady and a server in Kansas City, an artist in Chicago and a showgirl in Detroit.

She showed up in Hollywood when 21 and was a twofold for Norma Shearer.

She was under agreement to MGM until 1941 when she went independent,.

She endorsed with Warners and needed to argue for the lead in Mildred Pierce for which she won an Oscar.

List of Joan Crawford Movies

• The Sixth Sense (TV Series)
• The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (TV Series)
• Trog
• The Virginian (TV Series)
• Night Gallery (TV Series)
• Journey to Midnight
• The Secret Storm (TV Series)
• The Lucy Show (TV Series)
• Berserk
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series)
• The Oscar
• Della
• I Saw What You Did
• Strait-Jacket
• Route 66 (TV Series)
• Borderlines
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• The Foxes (TV Movie)
• Zane Grey Theatre (TV Series)
• The Best of Everything
• The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series)
• The Joan Crawford Show: Woman on the Run (TV Movie)
• General Electric Theater (TV Series)
• The Story of Esther Costello
• Autumn Leaves
• Queen Bee
• Female on the Beach
• Johnny Guitar
• Torch Song
• The Revlon Mirror Theater (TV Series)
• Sudden Fear
• This Woman Is Dangerous
• Goodbye, My Fancy
• Harriet Craig
• The Damned Don't Cry
• It's a Great Feeling
• Flamingo Road
• Daisy Kenyon
• Possessed
• Humoresque
• Mildred Pierce
• Hollywood Canteen
• Above Suspicion
• Reunion in France
• They All Kissed the Bride
• When Ladies Meet
• A Woman's Face
• Susan and God
• Strange Cargo
• The Women
• The Ice Follies of 1939
• The Shining Hour
• The Circle
• The Merry Widow
• A Slave of Fashion
• Pretty Ladies
• Proud Flesh
• Lady of the Night   & Many more ....