Joan Crawford
Biography
Joan Crawford
If you want to see the girl next door, go next door
Born:
March 23, 1904 or 1905 or 1908
Born as:
Lucille Fay LeSueur
Died:
May 10, 1977
Biography:
Born it was in San Antonio, Texas (USA), she began her career as a dancer, first on the stage and later in silent films. In Our Dancing Daughters (1928) in which she performed a spirited Charleston atop a table, she danced her way into the memories of moviegoers. The picture's surprise success made Crawford a star.
From 1930 to 1940 Crawford starred in eight pictures with Clark Gable. In the late 1930s Crawford experienced a decline in popularity, and in 1943 MGM finally dropped her. She bounced back as a superstar at Warner Bros. playing the suffering heroine in Mildred Pierce (1945).
Her career extended into the 1950s, with twelve new movies, including Johnny Guitar (1954). Besides her work as an actress, from 1955 to 1973 Joan Crawford was a publicity executive for Pepsi-Cola.
Academy awards:
1953 Nominated Best Actress for: Sudden Fear (1952)
1948 Nominated Best Actress for: Possessed (1947)
1946 Won Best Actress for: Mildred Pierce (1945)
Selected Movies:
- The unknown (1927)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- The women (1939)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
