Joan Crawford American Actress (1905–1977)

Joan Crawford was an American actress born on 23 March 1905 in San Antonio. She died on 10 May 1977, aged 72. The recorded cause of death is listed as pancreatic cancer and myocardial infarction. She was recognised for appearances in Dancing Lady (1933) and The Stolen Jools (1931).

Career

The earliest credit on record for Joan Crawford is A Slave of Fashion (1925). During the 1930s, she worked on Grand Hotel (1932, as Flaemmchen) and The Women (1939). Work from the 1940s includes A Woman's Face (1941) and Mildred Pierce (1945). Sudden Fear (1952) and Johnny Guitar (1954) are among her 1950s credits. In the 1960s, she appeared in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Berserk! (1967).

Her filmography here covers 101 films from 1925 to 2020. Musical is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (3), followed by comedy (2) and drama (2). Her last credit during her lifetime is That's Entertainment, Part II (1976).

Clark Gable appears in 11 of her listed titles, including Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) and Possessed (1931). Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Gary Cooper (four titles) and Buster Keaton (four titles).

Recognition

In 1946, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce. She also won a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1970) and the star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Joan Crawford also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1948 for Possessed. Awards come to 3 wins and 3 nominations in total.

Personal life

Marriages on record are to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1929 to 1933, divorced), Franchot Tone (1935 to 1939), Phillip Terry (1942 to 1946) and Alfred Steele (1955 to 1959, widowed).