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Joan Crawford

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Also known as Lucille Fay LeSueur, Lucille LeSueur

American actress (1908–1977)

OverviewAI-generated

Joan Crawford was an American actor, film actor, and television actor who began her work period in 1925 and ended it in 1974. Born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, she was a businessperson and citizen of the United States. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Crawford was married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone, Phillip Terry, and Alfred Steele. She died of natural causes in New York City on May 10, 1977. Her burial place is Ferncliff Cemetery. She spoke and wrote in English. Her notable works include *A Portrait of Joan* and *My way of life*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 46 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1908
Died
1977
Works
7

Top works

  • A Portrait of Joan
  • A portrait of Joan;
  • A portrait of Joan
  • My way of life
  • Penguin Passnotes:Spring & Port

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Film & TV

Acting · San Antonio, Texas, USA

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1906 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a…

Known for

  • Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Bette and Joan — Self (archive footage)2017
  • Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other — Self (archive footage)2016
  • Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' — Self (archive footage)2016
  • Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western? — Self (archive footage)2016
  • The Shirley Eder Tapes — Self2012
  • Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe — Self (archive footage)2012
  • Possessed — (archive footage)2011
  • Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture2010
  • 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Self (archive footage)2009

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1904
Active to
1977
pop soulquiet stormsmooth soul
DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,862
Total plays
8,845

Tags

americanhollywoodmusicalSoundtrackcamp

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Lucille LeSueur's parents separated before she was born. By age 16 she had known three fathers, one of whom (a vaudeville theater manager) had given her the name Billie Cassin. By 1915 she and her mother lived in Kansas City and Billie worked in a laundry and also as a menial to pay school tuition. Winning an amateur dance contest in 1923 led to chorus work in Chicago, Detroit and New York. On New Year's Day of 1925 she left for Hollywood. Before her second picture, a "Photoplay" contest led to the name "Joan Crawford". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joan+Crawford">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,975x

  2. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,570x

  3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,997x

  4. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,264x

  5. Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL): Initial Reliability and Validity Data

    · 1997 · cited 8,141x

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Quotes

  • “I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”
  • “I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.”
  • “You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.”
  • “I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!”
  • “If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'”
  • “I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1904–1908  – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion-picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her roles, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who manage to find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money. By the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison".

After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forced to retire in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer; after the release of the horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen. She withdrew from public life and became increasingly reclusive until her death in 1977.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joan Crawford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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