Joan Crawford Overview:

Legendary actress, Joan Crawford, was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on Mar 23, 1905 in San Antonio, TX. Crawford died at the age of 72 on May 10, 1977 in New York City, NY and was laid to rest in Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, NY.

MINI BIO:

Dark-haired (earlier blonde), thick-browed, dominating American actress. After an apprenticeship playing bitchy, hard-headed flappers, the Crawford of the forties and fifties, great haunted eyes and jagged mouth to the fore, excelled as women born to suffer. Still in leading roles when past 50, she remains one of the few actresses to create her own genre, with its ingredients of melodrama, mayhem, murder, and mink. Academy Award for Mildred Pierce. Married to actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1929-1933), Franchot Tone (1935-1939), and Phillip Terry (1942-1946). Her last husband, a businessman, left her a widow in 1959. Died from a heart attack. Also Oscar-nominated for Possessed (1947 version) and Sudden Fear.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Joan Crawford was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce (as Mildred Pierce) in 1945.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1945Best ActressMildred Pierce (1945)Mildred PierceWon
1947Best ActressPossessed (1947)Louise HowellNominated
1952Best ActressSudden Fear (1952)Myra HudsonNominated
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Joan Crawford's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #15 on Sep 14, 1929.

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Joan Crawford Quotes:

Helen Wright: I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place


Crystal Allen: He almost stood me up for his wife.


Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: [to Henry] If only I liked you a little less and loved you a little more.


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Her popularity grew so quickly after her name was changed to Joan Crawford that two films in which she was still billed as Lucille Le Sueur: Old Clothes (1925) and The Only Thing (1925) were recalled, and the billings were altered.

Sister of actor Hal Le Sueur.

She was a favorite model of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for their early experiments in animation ("The Hand Behind the Mouse," by Leslie Iwerks).

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