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Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? [a] – May 10, 1977) was an American actress.She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway.
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The year's most successful film was David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia , with 10 nominations and 7 wins, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director .
From 1946 to 1952, Crawford appeared in a series of critical and box office successes, including the musical drama Humoresque (1946), film noirs Possessed (1947, for which she received a second Academy Award nomination) and Flamingo Road (1949), drama The Damned Don't Cry (1950), and romantic comedy Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), among others.
Joan Crawford: Mildred Pierce: Mildred Pierce Beragon 1946: Anna Magnani: Rome, Open City: Pina 1947: Celia Johnson: This Happy Breed: Ethel Gibbons 1948: Olivia de Havilland: The Snake Pit: Virginia Stuart Cunningham 1949: Not awarded
Mildred Pierce is available on DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection for Regions 1 and 2 in a special edition which includes a host of special features, including "Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star", a 2002 feature-length documentary, a Q&A with actor Ann Blyth from 2006, a conversation on the film between critics Molly Haskell and ...
Tinseltown icons Lucille Ball and Joan Crawford each left their indelible mark in their given sector of the Hollywood realm. But when they came together in an episode of Ball's sitcom, The Lucy ...
In a 1972 telephone conversation, Crawford told author Shaun Considine that after seeing the film she urged Davis to go and have a look. When she failed to hear back from her co-star, Crawford called Davis and asked her what she thought of the film. Davis replied, "You were so right, Joan. The picture is good. And I was terrific."
Joan Crawford: Actress [7] [1] Paul R. Cunningham: 2016 Dean of The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University: Charlie Daniels: 1984 Singer, musician, and songwriter [7] Frank A. Daniels Jr. 1995 Publisher of The News and Observer [1] [11] Chuck Davis: 2007 Dancer Crash Davis: 1979 Minor League Baseball player Claude DeBruhl: 1981