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Aug. 1 - It's an obvious observation to say Joan Crawford's greatest role was Joan Crawford. A new film biography from Turner Classic Movies suggests that, in the same vein, Crawford's greatest movie was her own life. It had melodrama, adventure, violence, sex and, of course, wire hangers. "Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star," an enthralling 90-minute documentary written and directed by Peter Fitzgerald and narrated by Anjelica Huston, premieres on TCM Thursday night at 8 with a repeat showing at 11.
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Joan Crawford’s first marriage was to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., on 3 June 1929 in Manhattan. They divorced in May of 1933. Her second marriage was to Franchot Tone on 12 October 1935 in Englewood Cliffe, New Jersey, but they divorced in April of 1939. Phillip Terry (born Frederick Henry Kormann) was her third husband, whom she wed on 20 July 1942 in Ventura, California. They coupled divorced in 1946. Miss Crawford’s last marriage was to Pepsi-Cola executive Alfred N. Steele on 10 May 1955 in Las Vegas.
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Billie Cassin, known later as Joan Crawford, moved to Kansas City, Missouri, around 1917 when she was nine years old. The family lived at 403 E. 9th Street in what was the New Midland Hotel.
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Joan Crawford died in New York City of a heart attack while apparently ill with cancer. In her will, she gave the two youngest of her adopted children, Cindy and Cathy, $77,500.00 each. But she explicitly disinherited the eldest two, Christina and Christopher, with the phrase "...for reasons which should be well known to them."
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Jazz artist JOAN CRAWFORD joins AMAC RECORDS and her new CD entitled "STEPPING OUT" is scheduled to be released December 15, 2004. This Detroit native has been featured with the Jimmie Wilkins orchestra as well as the Montreux-Detroit International Jazz Festival. Invited by Martha Reeves to join the National Tour of Fars Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin", Ms Crawford played the roll of Armelia and reveived rave reviews for her performances throughout the country. She has appeared in the movie "Detroit Comedy Jame, The Movie" filmed at the Fisher Theater in Detroit. Other stage performances include "The Door", "Gullah Tales", "Mrs. Grace Mattox", "Save Yourself Sister...the Survival of an X-Married Woman", "When Wild Geese Fly" and more. She was the opening act for Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson, she has performed at The Whitney House, Bakers Keyboard Lounge, WDET Detroit, and The Ed Love Show.
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Crawford went on to make Humoresque with John Garfield and Oscar Levant in 1946, and Possessedin 1947. In 1949, she starred with Zachary Scott in Robert and Sally Wilder's Flamingo Road. Her career extended into the 1950s, with twelve new movies, including Johnny Guitar in 1954 and Autumn Leaves in 1956. She made five more movies during the 1960s, including the classic, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1962 with Bette Davis, and Strait-Jacket in 1964, with Diane Baker and Leif Erickson. Crawford's last film, in 1970, was Warner Brother's Trog with Michael Gough and Joe Cornelius.
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