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  1. Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? [ Note 1 ] – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway .

  2. Mar 22, 2021 · Joan Crawford has been gone for more than four decades, but she is still remembered as the quintessential star product of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Her movie career lasted from 1925 until 1970 ...

  3. Mar 26, 2021 · Joan Crawford was a legendary Hollywood star who won an Oscar for 'Mildred Pierce' and faced scandals in her personal life. Learn more about her career and legacy.

  4. 4 days ago · Crawford, Joan Joan Crawford. Crawford danced in nightclubs under the name Billie Cassin, and by 1924 she was dancing in Broadway musicals. On the screen from 1925, she danced her way through such popular films as Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Dance, Fools, Dance (1931), and Dancing Lady (1933). Among her early successes as a dramatic actress ...

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  5. Joan Crawford. Actress: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; Crawford worked a variety of menial jobs. She...

    • March 23, 1906
    • May 10, 1977
  6. May 4, 2016 · Shortly after her death in 1977, Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina published “ Mommie Dearest,” a memoir detailing her mother’s alleged abusive nature, alcoholism and neuroses. Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, her first husband Douglas Fairbanks Jr., her two youngest daughters and others close to her denounced the book.

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  8. Jul 13, 2022 · Joan Crawford was a self-made Hollywood success story.She grew up poor in the South, and her dancing earned her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. After struggling to reach her career goals in her early days at MGM, she changed her name and transformed herself into a 1920s flapper who obsessively practiced her speech to eliminate her southern accent, according to Bob Thomas' "Joan Crawford ...

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