A profile of the actress prefaces plot summaries, reviews, and stills from all her motion pictures
Yet in this definitive, powerful and dramatic biography, Bob Thomas, dean of Hollywood biographers, has recreated the *real* life of Joan Crawford: her lonely, terrible death; her search for her father (who abandoned her at an early age and ...
The Essential Biography Lawrence J. Quirk, William Schoell. Today We Live (1933) marked the only time Joan ever worked with Gary Cooper. Joan played Diana Boyce-Smith, an English playgirl during the World War I period.
Complete Films of Joan Crawford
A profile of the actress prefaces plot summaries, reviews, and stills from all her motion pictures.
Even when the cameras quit rolling, her life never stopped being over-the-top. In My Way of Life, a cult classic since it was first published in the early 1970’s, Crawford shares her secrets.
Joan was married four times including once to Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who spoke extensively to Charlotte Chandler for this book.
Based on the story by Andrew Solt and Gina Kaus. Artistic Directors: Lionel Banks/Cary Odell. Music: Morris Stoloff. Photography: Joseph Walker. With Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Billie Burke, Allan Jankins, Roland Young, Mary Treen, ...
One of Hollywood’s greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; in 1945, the Academy Award for her sensational ...
In Possessed, Spoto goes behind the myths to examine the rise and fall of the studio system; Crawford’s four marriages; her passionate thirty year, on-and-off-again affair with Clark Gable; her friendships and rivalries with other stars; ...