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Joan Crawford was not an actress; she was a movie star. The distinction is a crucial one: She infrequently appeared in superior films, and her work was rarely distinguished regardless of the material, yet she enjoyed one of the most successful and longest-lived careers in cinema history. Glamorous...Read More
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Joan Crawford continues to be the prime example of the studio-manufactured movie star. The ambitious and tenacious flapper of the 20s practically absorbed the glamour factory of MGM into her bloodstream, transforming herself from just another Texas hopeful into every shopgirl's idea of sophistication. Never a great actress but always a good screen player, Crawford rode on the 1930s wave of image creation through photo sessions and magazine layouts. Always the Queen of Publicity, she created an artificial celebrity, and then inhabited the role for fifty more years.
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In this noirish favorite, Joan Crawford shines as a Manhattan-based commercial artist who becomes romantically involved with married lawyer Dana Andrews. In an attempt to move on with her life, she reluctantly agrees to marry World War II veteran Henry Fonda. But when she learns that Andrews is getting divorced, she must figure out which man she truly wants to be with. Features Ruth Warrick, Peggy Ann Garner; directed by Otto Preminger. 99 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; art gallery; audio commentary; featurette; "making of" documentary; photo gallery; theatrical trailers.
Biographical sketch of Joan Crawford (1906-1977), a movie actress starting in 1925 with silent pictures, growing up in Kansas City. Description of her life and career, moving to Kansas City in 1917 from Oklahoma, attending the Scarritt School and Sa....
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Crawford first made an impression on audiences in Edmund Goulding's Sally, Irene and Mary (1925), in which she played Irene, a struggling chorus girl who meets a tragic end. In the same year, Crawford worked on Lady of the Night, starring Norma Shearer. Crawford's face was never seen, as she was used as a double for Shearer. It was ... during this time that Crawford grew to hate Shearer because of how well she was treated compared to herself. The following year, she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. For the next two years, Crawford consolidated on these gains, appearing in increasingly important movies.
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On June 3, 1929, Crawford eloped to New York with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., son of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and stepson to Mary Pickford. Despite a concerted effort by Crawford, she never earned the acceptance of her in-laws. The rejection devastated Crawford and contributed in part to her divorce from Fairbanks Jr. Before and after the divorce, Crawford was enveloped by her stardom. Between 1930 and 1935 she made 17 movies, including Grand Hotel in 1932, in which she starred with Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, and John and Lionel Barrymore. From 1930 to 1940 Crawford starred in eight pictures with Clark Gable including Dance, Fools, Dance, Laughing Sinners, and Possessed. Her relationship with Gable eventually overflowed beyond the movie set and erupted into a love affair that climaxed just prior to her divorce from Fairbanks in 1933.
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