- Date of Birth: 23 March, 1905
- Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas , U.S.
- Biography: Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting 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... Read more
Filmography
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
- Old Hollywood: Silent Stars, Deadly Secrets (2007)
- Terror in the Aisles (1984)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
- That's Entertainment! (1974)
- Journey to Murder (1971)
- Trog (1970)
- Night Gallery (1969)
- Berserk! (1968)
- Journey to Midnight (1968)
- The Karate Killers (1967)
News
Vacaville poet Heidy Steidlmayer recently won a $25,000 Writer's Award from the New York-based Rona Jaffe Foundation. The award is given each year to six women who demonstrate excellence and promise in their early writing careers, according to a news... ... Full Article
Winslet Takes on Crawford's Ghost
advocate.com –
2009-08-14
Kate Winslet to be new Joan Crawford
telegraph.co.uk –
2009-08-14
So way back in the golden age of Hollywood, two huge stars thrived among the glitz and glamor. Their names? Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. ... Full Article
Review | Dreams of a vampire carnival with freaky fashions in 'The Show that Smells'
miamiherald.com –
2009-07-05
BY ANDREW ERVIN The Show that Smells. Derek McCormack. Akashic. 110 pages. $15.95 in paper. This thoroughly hilarious, strange and altogether ghoulish little freak show of a book is a campy vampire story with more in common, aesthetically speaking, with... ... Full Article
Almodovar: Cinema is an Irrational Passion
indiewire.com –
2009-05-19
Pedro Almodovar today at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE I could give a lot of examples. When in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" Carmen Maura has to dub a sequence of "Johnny Guitar", I'm... ... Full Article


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