Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – 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 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 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". More about Joan Crawford
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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 forcibly retired 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. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life. She became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.In total, we tracked 939 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Joan Crawford (RARE JOAN CRAWFORD 164 TOTAL SIGNED LETTERS IN BOUND BOOK AUTOGRAPHED INCREDIBLE) was sold in October 2017 for $5500.00 while the cheapest item (Joan Crawford #2 Sketch Card Limited 15/50 Edward Vela Signed) found a new owner for $0.99 in August 2022. The month with the most items sold (26) was January 2020 with an average selling price of $87.50 for an autographed item of Joan Crawford. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2017 with $2782.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.49 was November 2017. In average, an autographed item from Joan Crawford is worth $89.99.
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Celebrate Joan Crawford's birthday and more special movie events in the Los Ange (03/19/15): Celebrate Joan Crawford's birthday and more special movie events in the Los Angeles area
Halloween comes early with Blue Oyster Cult's 'Joan Crawford' (09/30/14): I pondered if it was too early to talk about the spooky activities of October, but the witches and jack-o-lanterns are starting to pop up around the neighborhood, so let's get an early jump on Halloween with a week of "scary" Lost and Found videos starting with Blue Oyster Cult and Joan Crawford .
'Johnny Guitar,' a subversive Technicolor Western starring Joan Crawford: Indie (05/20/14): Director Nicholas Ray brings us a western of a whole other stripe, casting Joan Crawford as a woman with gumption in the cult classic "Johnny Guitar."
Q+A: Candy Spelling talks daughter Tori Spelling, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawfor (05/14/14): Tonight, Candy Spellling, still one of the richest women in America, will be in Las Vegas to sign copies of her new book “Candy at Last” at the Barnes & Noble on North Rainbow Blvd. She also will candidly discuss some of the no-hold’s-barred revelations in its pages.
Singled Out: Dead Fame's Joan Crawford (05/09/14): Today Dead Fame singer Michael Means tells us about the lead single 'Joan Crawford' from their brand new album 'Vicious Design'.
Flaunt those shoulder pads, Joan: The Dolls pay tribute to the late Joan Crawfor (05/2014): See Joan battle Bette.
It's colder than a Joan Crawford kiss in Chicago (01/2014): What's it like when the Polar Vortex comes to town and it's 30 degrees below zero? Joseph Epstein reports from the frozen streets of the Windy City
Day in History: Joan Crawford earned her big break as a flapper (12/2013): Joan Crawford is a film legend, renowned for her dramatic work in the film noir classic Mildred Pierce and the dark, terrifying psychological thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? But her big break came as a flirtatious flapper.
Vintage women's magazine warns against Joan Crawford's dangerous 'three spoonful (09/2013): The article, entitled Diet - The Menace Of Hollywood, was published in the January 1929 issue of American magazine Photoplay.
Mark Gatiss as Joan Crawford in Psychobitches - video (05/2013): Mark Gatiss stars as Joan Crawford and Frances Barber as Bette Davis in this clip from Sky Arts' new dark comedy Psychobitches
'Joan Crawford's House Party' revived at Parliament House's Footlight Theatre (01/2013): Wanzie Presents is reviving "Joan Crawford's House Party," a hit at the 2012 Orlando Fringe Festival, for a four-show run at Parliament House's Footlight Theatre.
Joan Crawford's Best Actress Oscar for 'Mildred Pierce' sold for $426,732 at Nat (09/2012): Though her role as Mildred Pierce was considered the tour-de-force performance of her career, Crawford and many others didn't think she'd win the Best Actress nod.
Under-age lovers, transvestite tendencies and a porn stash - featuring Joan Craw (02/2012): J. Edgar Hoover assembled the largest collection of pornography in history to meet his insatiable sexual demands, according to a new biography.
Joan Crawford Movies for a Halloween Marathon (10/2011): Halloween and Joan Crawford go together like candy and corn. Although she started out as a fairly hot flapper girl during the silent era, by a mere two decades or so later Joan Crawford was looking at least as scary as a Sarah Palin rubber mask.
Ann Blyth on Joan Crawford (04/2011): Ann Blyth's experience on working with Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce" (1945)
Flipping Channels: Eat Your Heart Out, Joan Crawford — Kate Winslet is Mildred P (03/2011): Even though the notion of a separation between film and TV actors has long since vanished,… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]