Joan Crawford's biography

Lucille Fay LeSueur is -45 years old actress born at San Antonio, Texas USA. Joan Crawford was born on Wednesday 23rd of March 2022. Joan Crawford is often nicknamed as Cranberry, Lucille Fay LeSueur, Joan Crawford, Billie. According to year of birth 2022 Joan belongs to Generation Alpha. Birthday on 23rd of March means Joan is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

Joan is white american. Joan is christian science.

Detailed informations about Joan Crawford's schools

Joan studied high school - Chadwick School.

Joan studied university - Stephens College (withdrew).

Joan Crawford's career

Joan Crawford's main focus is to be actress. Joan Crawford is famous thanks to Our Dancing Daughters (1928), WAMPAS Baby Star of 1926.

Is Joan Crawford gay ?

Joan is known to be bisexual.

How did Joan Crawford die

Joan Crawford died on on Tuesday 10th of May 1977 when he was 45 years old. Joan Crawfords death was caused by heart attack.

Awards and competitions

Joan Crawford's Awards

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1752 Vine St.
Was the 26th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Mildred Pierce (1945) at The 18th Academy Awards on March 7, 1946.

Joan Crawford's Rankings

In AFI's 100 Years 100 Stars, she was ranked the #10 Female Greatest Screen Legend.
Her performance as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce (1945) is ranked #93 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

What else you don't know about Joan Crawford ?

Joan Crawford's middle name is Fay. Joan Crawford likes to spend time in: New York, Los Angeles, Paris.

What Joan Crawford has done for a first time

Entered Stephens College, a posh university for women in Columbia, Missouri, in 1922, but left before her first academic year was over as she felt she was not academically prepared for university.
Her little tap dancing in The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) was the first audible tap dance on the screen.
She was Fred Astaire's first on-screen dance partner. They appeared in Dancing Lady (1933).
Her first screen name was decided by a magazine competition, being Joan Arden. After two movies an extra called Joan Arden sued Metro and so her name had to be changed and the second choice from the competition was chosen. Joan Crawford.

Joan Crawford's quotes

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
[In The Women (1939)] Norma Shearer made me change my costume sixteen times because every one was prettier than hers. I love to play bitches and she helped me in this part.
If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if Grand Hotel (1932) or The Bride Wore Red (1937) comes on. I have a sneaking regard for Mildred Pierce (1945), but the others do nothing for me.
Love is fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.
I think the most important thing a woman can have -- next to talent, of course, is -- her hairdresser.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Recently I heard a "wise guy" story that I had a party at my home for 25 men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know 25 men I'd want to invite to a party.
Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.
Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.
There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".
If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.
I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman--a lot in every man.
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, "Joan Crawford!" I turn around and say, "Hi! How are you?"
If you're going to be a star, you have to look like a star, and I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
[on director George Cukor] Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.
[commenting on the remake of The Women (1939), The Opposite Sex (1956)] It's ridiculous. Norma [Norma Shearer] and I might not ever have been bosom buddies, but we towered compared to those pygmies in the remake!
[on Greta Garbo] To this day I deplore the fact that she is unable to share herself with the world. What a waste! . . . If only she hadn't been so afraid, she wouldn't today be a lonely stranger on Fifth Avenue, fleeing before recognition.
[on Bette Davis] She has a cult, and what the hell is a cult except a gang of rebels without a cause. I have fans. There's a big difference.
[on Bette Davis and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)] I have always believed in the Christian ethic, to forgive and forget. I looked forward to working with Bette again. I had no idea of the extent of her hate, and that she planned to destroy me.
[on Bette Davis and The Star (1952)] Of course I had heard she was supposed to be playing me, but I didn't believe it. Did you see the picture? It couldn't possibly be me. Bette looked so old, and so dreadfully overweight.
Be afraid of nothing.
[on The David Frost Show (1969), (1970)] I feel that if you have one ounce of good sense and one good friend, you'll never have to go to a psychiatrist.
[The 1930s] Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me--that was all.
When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.
[on Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) (1973)] I still get chills when I think of the treachery that Miss Davis [Bette Davis] indulged in on that movie, but I refused to ever let anger or hate enter my heart.
[on Bette Davis]: There was one thing where Bette was one up on me. She'd had a baby, a child of her own. I wanted one, and Bette was so lucky to have been able to have her own daughter.
[on the red carpet treatment Norma Shearer attracted at MGM] What do you expect? She sleeps with the boss [Shearer's husband Irving Thalberg was production head of MGM].
[To Spencer Tracy, made up with curled hair for Captains Courageous (1937)] Oh, my God, it's Harpo Marx!
I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty . . . in every form . . . a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me.
[after seeing Greta Garbo for the first time on the MGM lot] My knees went weak. She was breathtaking. If ever I thought of becoming a lesbian, that was it.
[on Planet of the Apes (1968)] Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.
[on her son, Christopher Crawford] I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't.
[on The Women (1939)] It was like a fucking zoo at times. If you let down your guard for one moment you would have been eaten alive.
[on being dubbed "box-office poison in 1938] Box-office poison? Mr.Mayer [MGM chief Louis B. Mayer] always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.
[on This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)] At the moment when I needed a blockbuster, my next picture could easily have been my swan song. It was the type of improbable corn that had gone out with Adrian's shoulder pads.
[on William Haines and his partner, Jimmie Shields] The happiest married couple I ever knew.
[on Elizabeth Taylor] Miss Taylor is a spoiled, indulgent child, a blemish on public decency.
You know, I was terrified of flying until Alfred talked me out of it.

Joan Crawford's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

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