Old Clothes was one of her films in 1925. Old Clothes is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford. This was the first film in which Crawford was credited with her new name — Joan Crawford. She had been renamed by the studio, who deemed her birth name, Lucille LeSueur, as sounding unfit for a movie star.
The next film was Sally, Irene and May. Sally, Irene, and Mary is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film starring Constance Bennett, Sally O'Neil, and Joan Crawford.
The next one was The Boob in 1926. The Boob is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Gertrude Olmstead, Tony D'Algy, George K. Arthur, and Joan Crawford as a law enforcement agent.
In 1926 she also starred in the film Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Edwards and starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford.
In 1927 she was in The Taxi Dancer with Douglas Gilmore. The Taxi Dancer is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Harry F. Millarde and starring Owen Moore and, in her first film with top billing, Joan Crawford.
Then she did The Understanding Heart. The Understanding Heart is a 1927 American silent adventure drama film directed by Jack Conway and stars Joan Crawford in an early leading role.
Then she was directed by Woody Van Dyke in Winners of the Wilderness. Winners of the Wilderness is a 1927 American silent war drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford. In this costume drama, set during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Rene Contrecouer (Crawford), the daughter of a French general falls for a soldier of fortune (McCoy).
Her breakthrough role was 1927 THe Unknown. The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower "Alonzo the Armless" and Joan Crawford as his beloved carnival girl Nanon.
In 1929 he did her first non-silent role in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. The Hollywood Revue of 1929, or simply The Hollywood Revue,[4] is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of their earliest sound films.
Untamed is a 1929 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, and Lloyd Ingraham. Made during MGM's transition from silent to sound movies, Untamed was Crawford's first non-musical talkie.
In 1933 he divorced Douglas Fairbanks.
She starred Today We Live with Gary Cooper, and there she met Tranchot Tone, who she fell in love with and then married. Today We Live is a 1933 American pre-Code romance drama film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone.
Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone married on October 11, 1935, in a small private ceremony in Binghamton, New York. It was the second marriage for Crawford and the first for Tone.
The films that followed were I Live My Life and No More Ladies.
I Live My Life is a 1935 American romantic comedy drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke starring Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne and Frank Morgan.
No More Ladies is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith. The film stars Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery, and co-stars Charlie Ruggles, Franchot Tone, and Edna May Oliver.
In 1936 she starred Love On the Run. Love on the Run is a 1936 American romantic comedy film, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and Reginald Owen in a story about rival newspaper correspondents assigned to cover the marriage of a socialite.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1937 American comedy drama film. The movie stars Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery and Frank Morgan.
In 1939 she divorced her second husband, Franchot Tone. , in a Los Angeles court. Crawford was granted the divorce after testifying about mental anguish and cruelty, citing exhaustion from being forced to attend late-night parties after long days filming.
In 1940 she starred Strange Cargo. Strange Cargo is a 1940 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony.
In 1940 she adopted a first child, Christina.
Joan and Phillip adopted a boy who first she called Phillip but then she changed his name to Christopher after the divorce.
In 1942 she starred Reunion in France with John Wayne. Reunion in France is a 1942 American war film distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Joan Crawford, John Wayne, and Philip Dorn in a story about a woman in occupied France who, learning her well-heeled lover has German connections, aids a downed American flyer.
In 1943 she starred Above Suspicion. Above Suspicion is a 1943 American spy thriller film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt and Basil Rathbone.
Joan left MGM and signed with Warner Brothers. Joan Crawford signed with Warner Bros. on July 1, 1943, following her departure from MGM after 18 years. Her contract revitalized her career.
In 1944 she starred Hollywood Canteen. Hollywood Canteen is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark, and features many stars (appearing as themselves) in cameo roles.
With Mildred Pierce she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American melodrama film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, and featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this was Crawford's first starring role for Warner Bros. Pictures after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Crawford skipped the 18th Academy Awards ceremony in March 1946, publicly claiming she was sick in bed with a high fever. When she won, she invited press photographers into her bedroom to snap pictures of her receiving the statuette while wearing a stylish nightgown
In 1946 she divorced her third husband. Crawford cited mental and physical stress, stating that Terry criticized her choice of film scripts and that the marriage caused her to lose weight and isolate from friends.
Joan adopted two other children, Cathy and Cindy in 1947. They were born on January 13, 1947, and were the last children Crawford adopted, joining older siblings Christina and Christopher. Unlike their older siblings, Cathy and Cindy were later provided for in Crawford's will.
In 1950 he starred The Damned Don't Cry. The Damned Don't Cry is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by Vincent Sherman and featuring Joan Crawford, David Brian and Steve Cochran. The plot concerns a woman's involvement with an organized-crime boss and his subordinates.
She married her fourth husband, Alfred Steelethe president and CEO of the Pepsi-Cola Company, on May 10, 1955. This union was her fourth and final marriage, and the only one that did not end in divorce. It lasted until Steele's sudden death from a heart attack in April 1959.
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In 1962 she starred Who Ever Happened to Baby Jane alongside Bette Davis, and from this moment there was a bitter enmity between the two actresses. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and featuring Victor Buono in his major film debut.
In 1962 she starred Who Ever Happened to Baby Jane alongside Bette Davis, and from this moment there was a bitter enmity between the two actresses. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and featuring Victor Buono in his major film debut.
Strait Jacket was her next film. Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover 20 years prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital.
Hush, Hush, Charlotte was a film that she would star alongside Bette Davis again. Yet, she felt harrassed by Davis and checked herself into hospital. Then she heard that she had bben replaced by Olivia de Havilland.
In 1965 she starred I Saw What You Did. I Saw What You Did is a 1965 American horror thriller film released by Universal Pictures and starring Joan Crawford and John Ireland. The plot follows two teenage girls who find themselves in serious danger after making a prank phone call to a man who just murdered his wife.
In 1967 he did Berserk. Berserk! is a 1967 British horror-thriller film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors and Judy Geeson.
Night Gallery is a 1969 American made-for-television anthology supernatural horror film starring Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis, Richard Kiley, Roddy McDowall, Barry Sullivan and Tom Bosley.
Joan Crawford died of a heart attack in 1977 on May 10, 1977, at her apartment in Manhattan, New York City.
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