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Joan Crawford: Years
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Crawford's father was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; Crawford later said she had been only a few months old when her father left. Her mother later married Henry J. Cassin. The family lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, where Cassin ran a movie theater. The 1910 Comanche County, Oklahoma, Federal Census, enumerated on April 20, showed Henry and Anna living at 910 "D" Street in Lawton. Crawford was then five years old... showing that 1905 was her likely year of birth, although later on, she would shave some years off and claim she was born in 1908.
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Betsy Palmer amusingly recalls that Crawford's huge head was too large for her wee body. Film clips and photos of Crawford in later years are reminders of how grotesque the exaggerated eyebrows and three coats of lipstick became once youth had flown. Similarities to the character Gloria Swanson played in "Sunset Boulevard" are painfully obvious.
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There is some debate regarding the actual year of Crawford's birth. Many sources give 1906 or 1908, but 1904 is cited most often and by those references generally most reliable, although government records indicate 1908.
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