Personal Info
Birth date
1906-03-23 (119 Years)
Day of death
1977-05-10
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Also known as
Lucille Fay LeSueur
Lucille Le Sueur
Billie Cassin
Lucille Fay Le Sueur
Joan Crawford
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Great Performances
5.3
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.The Secret Storm
3.7
Overview:
The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life. Gloria Monty of General Hospital fame was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS Soap Operas of the time such as The Guiding Light and As the World Turns The Secret Storm was filmed, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 52 Street.What's My Line?
6.9
Overview:
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
Overview:
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.The Lucy Show
7
Overview:
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.The Virginian
6.5
Overview:
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.The Name of the Game
6.8
Overview:
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
7.2
Overview:
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.The Oscars
7
Overview:
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
7.911
Overview:
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
4.621
Overview:
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...Grand Hotel
6.943
Overview:
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.Mildred Pierce
7.621
Overview:
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.305
Overview:
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.Spielberg
7.57
Overview:
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.Johnny Guitar
7.411
Overview:
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.The Women
7.13
Overview:
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
Overview:
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.637
Overview:
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.That's Entertainment, Part II
6.855
Overview:
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7
Overview:
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.A Woman's Face
6.86
Overview:
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.Sudden Fear
7.3
Overview:
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?The Unknown
7.503
Overview:
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.Acting
TBARebel Range as Stella Faring
TBAAnd One Was Loyal as ann howard
TBABecause I Love Him as Margaret Hughes
TBAThe Road to Edinburgh as Mary Andrews
TBAThe Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel as Unknown
2017Spielberg as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017Bette and Joan as Self (archive footage)
2016Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? as Self (archive footage)
2016Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other as Self (archive footage)
2016Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' as Self (archive footage)
2014And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2012The Shirley Eder Tapes as Self
2011Possessed as (archive footage)
2010Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture as Unknown
20091939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
2008Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as Various Roles (archive footage)
2007Girl 27 as Self (archive footage)
2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2007Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy as Self
200642nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage as Self (archive footage)
2006Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition as Self (archive footage)
2004The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made as Dr. Brockton (archive footage)
2004Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)
2003Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
2002Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star as Self (archive footage)
2002Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' as Self (archive footage)
2000Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self (archive footage / uncredited)
1996Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
1994Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill as Self (archive footage)
1994That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self
1984Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1976That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
1972Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death as Joan Fairchild
1972The Sixth Sense (1 Episode) as Joan Fairchild
1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Self
1971Journey to Murder as Host
1970Trog as Dr. Brockton
1969Night Gallery as Miss Menlo
1969Garbo as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
1969Journey to the Unknown as Self - Host
1969The Big Rock Candy Mountain as Self
1968The Name of the Game (1 Episode) as Committee Member (uncredited)
1968This was the Mary as Unknown
1967Berserk! as Monica Rivers
1967The Karate Killers as Amanda True
1966The Oscar as Joan Crawford
1965I Saw What You Did as Amy Nelson
1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1 Episode) as Amanda True
1964The Big Parade of Comedy as Bobby (archive footage)
1964Della as Della Chappell
1964Strait-Jacket as Lucy Harbin
1964How to Plan a Movie Murder as Self
1963The Caretakers as Lucretia Terry
1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Blanche Hudson
1962The Lucy Show (1 Episode) as Joan Crawford
1962The Merv Griffin Show (3 Episodes) as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as Stephanie White
1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961One Must Die as Unknown
1960Route 66 (1 Episode) as Morgan Harper
1959The Best of Everything as Amanda Farrow
1959Woman on the Run as Susan Conrad
1959Zwischen Glück und Krone as Self (archive footage)
1958Strange Witness as Ruth Marshall
1957The Story of Esther Costello as Margaret Landi
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Stella Faring, Sarah / Melanie Davidson Hobbs
1956Autumn Leaves as Millicent Wetherby
1955Queen Bee as Eva Phillips
1955Female on the Beach as Lynn Markham
1954A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
1954Johnny Guitar as Vienna
1954The Secret Storm (318 Episodes) as Joan Borman Kane
1953Torch Song as Jenny Stewart
1953At Home with Joan Crawford as Self
1953The Oscars (8 Episodes) as Self
1953General Electric Theater (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Ann Howard, Ruth Marshall, Mary Andrews
1952Sudden Fear as Myra Hudson Blaine
1952This Woman Is Dangerous as Elizabeth Austin
1951Goodbye, My Fancy as Agatha Reed
1950Harriet Craig as Harriet Craig
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour (1 Episode) as Self
1950The Damned Don't Cry as Ethel Whitehead
1950What's My Line? (5 Episodes) as Self - Mystery Guest
1949It's a Great Feeling as Joan Crawford (uncredited)
1949Flamingo Road as Lane Bellamy
1947Daisy Kenyon as Daisy Kenyon
1947Through Many Windows as Self - Narrator
1947Possessed as Louise Howell
1947Humoresque as Helen Wright
1946Blow-Ups of 1946 as Self
1945Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce
1944Hollywood Canteen as Self
1943Above Suspicion as Frances Myles
1942Reunion in France as Michele de la Becque
1942They All Kissed the Bride as Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew
1942Joan Crawford's Home Movies as Self
1941When Ladies Meet as Mary 'Minnie' Howard
1941A Woman's Face as Anna Holm
1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
1940Susan and God as Susan Trexel
1940Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
1940Strange Cargo as Julie
1939The Women as Crystal Allen
1939From the Ends of the Earth as Self
1939Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Joan Crawford
1939The Ice Follies of 1939 as Mary McKay
1938The Shining Hour as Olivia Riley Linden
1938Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
1938Mannequin as Jessie Cassidy
1937The Bride Wore Red as Anni Pavlovitch
1937The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
1937Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12 as Self (uncredited)
1937The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Mrs. Fay Cheyney
1936Love on the Run as Sally Parker
1936The Gorgeous Hussy as Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal
1935I Live My Life as Kay Bentley
1935No More Ladies as Marcia Townsend Warren
1934Forsaking All Others as Mary Clay
1934Chained as Diane Lovering
1934Sadie McKee as Sadie
1933Dancing Lady as Janie Barlow
1933Fast Workers as Ivy Stevens (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
1933Today We Live as Diana 'Ann' Boyce-Smith
1932Rain as Sadie Thompson
1932Grand Hotel as Flämmchen
1932Letty Lynton as Letty Lynton
1931Possessed as Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'
1931This Modern Age as Valentine 'Val' Winters
1931We're switching to Hollywood as Self
1931Laughing Sinners as Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens
1931The Stolen Jools as Joan Crawford
1931Dance, Fools, Dance as Bonnie Jordan
1930Paid as Mary Turner
1930Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self
1930Our Blushing Brides as Jerry March
1930Montana Moon as Joan
1929The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
1929Untamed as Alice "Bingo" Dowling
1929Our Modern Maidens as Billie Brown
1929The Duke Steps Out as Susie
1928Dream of Love as Adrienne Lecouvreur
1928Our Dancing Daughters as Diana 'Di' Medford
1928Four Walls as Frieda
1928Across to Singapore as Priscilla Crowninshield
1928Rose-Marie as Rose-Marie
1928The Law of the Range as Betty Dallas
1928West Point as Betty Channing
1927Spring Fever as Allie Monte
1927Twelve Miles Out as Jane
1927The Unknown as Nanon Zanzi
1927The Understanding Heart as Monica Dale
1927The Taxi Dancer as Joselyn Poe
1927Winners Of The Wilderness as René Contrecoeur
1926The Merry Widow as Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
1926Paris as The Girl
1926The Boob as Jane
1926Tramp, Tramp, Tramp as Betty Burton
1925Sally, Irene and Mary as Irene O'Dare
1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925The Only Thing as Party Guest (uncredited)
1925Old Clothes as Mary Riley
1925The Midshipman as Extra - Driver of Police Car (uncredited)
1925The Circle as Young Lady Catherine
1925Pretty Ladies as Bobby
1925A Slave of Fashion as Mannequin (uncredited)
1925Proud Flesh as Party Guest (uncredited)
19251925 Studio Tour as Self
1925Lady of the Night as Body Double for Norma Shearer
Costume & Make-Up
1950The Damned Don't Cry ... Costume Consultant
Crew
1950The Damned Don't Cry ... Additional Writing
1942Joan Crawford's Home Movies ... Cinematography
Directing
1942Joan Crawford's Home Movies ... Director