Joan Crawford
Actor
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The Mommy Wars: Quite Simply I Hate Your Baby. [Kids Today]...were nicer to our moms, maybe people weren't. In one way or another, our culture has always been weird about mothers. Love/hate, Jocasta/Joan Crawford, supermom/"evil" stepmom, you name it. But right now, in some circles, it seems we're... In this article: Bread, God, Joan Crawford, and New York |
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Miami Herald | 2 days ago
In a Huff looking for Showtime series DVDs
...in a single package, and there is a separate DVD release of the first season. Q: Two of my favorite movies are Humoresque with Joan Crawford and John Garfield and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard...
In this article: DVD, The World According to Garp, Showtime, Huff, Dog, Lloyd Bridges, Hank Azaria, Glenn Close, Ivan Tors, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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International Herald Tribune - Culture | 4 days ago
Movie Review 'Broken Embraces': Almodovar's Happy Agony, Swirling Amid Jealousy and Revenge
...of the past. In "Volver" he made her an incarnation of melodramatic maternity, evoking the wounded resilience of Anna Magnani and Joan Crawford without sacrificing her natural comic verve. Here she adopts a more haunted and haunting persona,...
In this article: Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Nicholas Ray, Sony Pictures Classics, Blanca Portillo, Volver, and The Postman Always Rings Twice
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BBC News | 4 days ago
Purring pussycat
...MGM tapped into the audience's desire for glamour and the company created a stable of stars, including legends such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. Like its rivals, MGM produced 50 films a year, including seminal...
In this article: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood Reporter, YouTube, Time Warner, Judy Garland, Quadrangle Group, Creditors, Cash flow, and Revenue
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AP Online | 4 days ago
Director Pedro Almodovar is haunted by one taboo
...says. He says old Hollywood movies in which the main character is a woman and everything happens around her ??? often starring Joan Crawford or Bette Davis ??? "don't really exist" these days. "To me, this continues to be very...
In this article: Pedro Almodovar, Douglas Sirk, Ingmar Bergman, Thierry Jonquet, Penelope Cruz, Talk to Her, Hollywood, Madrid, Phobia, and Calzada de Calatrava
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iVillage - Entertainment | 4 days ago
'Precious' or My Mother the Maniac
...in Precious, but for those of us hungering for more authentic portrays of motherhood on the big screen, this isn't it. She makes Joan Crawford's wire-hanger wielding mama seem like June Cleaver. On the upside: watching this movie has...
In this article: Mo'Nique, Divine, Margaret Hamilton, Down syndrome, Wicked Witch of the West, and Facebook
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L.A. Times - Europe | 5 days ago
Frances L. Brody dies at 93; philanthropist, arts advocate and collector
...cross-section of the city's elite, from old Los Angeles families such as the Chandlers to Hollywood icons Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. It also became a showcase for a stunning art collection, which included works by Braque, Chagall,...
In this article: Henri Matisse, Huntington, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and UCLA
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | November 14, 2009
Hollywood's most glamorous studio prepares to sell up
...too, boasting as it did the real top names in the town. Visitors to the studio's commissary (restaurant), were liable to see Joan Crawford tucking into a sandwich while chatting to a Clark Gable - still in costume - and, somewhere out of...
In this article: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood, DVD, James Bond, The Wizard of Oz, Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, Sandwich, News Corp, and Singin' in the Rain
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Daily Herald | November 09, 2009
Tree goes from 18-inch sapling to center of Aurora's attention
...Boulevard. Courtesy of Amy Roth, city of Aurora City employee Martin Ayala cuts the stump after removing the 4,000 pound tree from Joan Crawford's front yard. Courtesy of Amy Roth, city of Aurora In the spirit of giving, often...
In this article: Aurora
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Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Starting 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 began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In 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 and 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 British 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 and became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.
- Name At Birth:
- Lucille Fay LeSueur
- Birth Date:
- March 23, 1905
- Birthplace:
- , U.S.
- Death Date:
- May 10, 1977
- Place of Death:
- , U.S.
- Spouse:
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- Phillip Terry (1942–1946)
- Franchot Tone (1935–1939)
- Alfred Steele (1955–1959)
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr (1929–1933)
- Occupation:
- Actress
- Years Active:
- 1925–1972
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