- American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stage showgirl
| Real name: | Lucille Fay LeSueur |
Joan Crawford Height
| | How tall was Joan Crawford? | 160 cm / 5 ft 3 in | | Born: | 23 March 1908 Comment | | When did Joan Crawford die? / Died | 10 May 1977 | | How many years did Joan Crawford live? / Lived | 69 years | | Where was Joan Crawford born? | San Antonio, Texas, US | | Where did Joan Crawford die? / Deathplace | New York City, New York, United States | | Zodiac sign: | Aries |
Joan Crawford Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Joan Crawford worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | American |
Who was Joan Crawford? / Facts
- In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema
- Beginning her career as a dancer in travelling theatrical companies, before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925
- In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled, and later outlasted, MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo
- Crawford often played hard-working young women who find romance and success
- These 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 labelled "Box Office Poison"
- But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress
- She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952)
- In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman 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 increasingly reclusive until her death in 1977
- Crawford married four times
- Her first three marriages ended in divorce; the last ended with the death of husband Alfred Steele
- She adopted five children, one of whom was reclaimed by his birth mother
- Crawford's relationships with her two older children, Christina and Christopher, were acrimonious
- Crawford disinherited the two, and, after Crawford's death, Christina wrote a "tell-all" memoir titled, Mommie Dearest
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