Joan Crawford
Stats
| Name: | Joan Crawford | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 69 (March 23, 1908 -May 10, 1977) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| Homepage | http://www.officialjoancrawford.com | |
| TMDB Popularity | 18.046 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1908 – 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". 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. |
Profile Picture
Movies
A Woman's Face
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smokingsides
She plays a woman with a disfigured face, so it's not really attractive, but Crawford smokes in a few scenes. There's also an amusing scene where the court usher asks 'who's smoking?' and tell-tale smoke streams from an old lady's (Gilchrist) nostrils. |
Autumn Leaves
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Miles and especially Crawford are very good in this one. Miles leaves behind a cigarette which smolders in Crawford's face for almost a minute. Donnelly also has a light-up and inhale. |
Berserk!
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Four lightings. Pencil-slim exhales |
Daisy Kenyon
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She inhales from a lighting and takes a subsequent drag. |
Dance, Fools, Dance
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She comes to the breakfast table smoking a cigarette. He father looks at her disgustedly and says, 'Must you smoke before breakfast?' to which she replies, 'Well I must, darling, if I want to stay thin!' |
Della
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Crawford produces a cigarette from a gold case and hands her lighter to the gentleman for him to light her. One inhale, two clear exhales. She also holds in a later scene. Diane Baker lights a cigarette, but passes it to her boyfriend without inhaling. |
Female on the Beach
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smokingsides
Smokes throughout |
Flamingo Road
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Four or five scenes - two good closeups |
Grand Hotel
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Two drags with very visible exhales from Crawford. She holds in another scene, but, thanks to a continuity error, her cigarette disappears. |
Humoresque
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smokingsides
Smokes throughout |
Love on the Run
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smokingsides
One scene only: she asks for a cigarette and performs a single visible and audible exhale. |
Mildred Pierce
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smokingsides
[Blyth] smokes as Crawford's [Joan] rebellious daughter |
Montana Moon
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At least one smoking scene. From the lightup, you think Joan is going to do as so many flapper-era gals did, as she merely blows out uninhaled smoke. But the first drag is a nice, genuine unfiltered inhale. |
Possessed
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smokingsides
She takes a cigarette two times but never lights up. |
Rain
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A cigarette droops from her mouth like a vamp before she drags. |
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smokingsides
Starts out promising for fans of the coming of age theme, as young Fulford-Wierzbicki, playing a 13-year-old, lights up and seems to inhale (it's pretty dark) before leaving the frame in an early party scene. Her mother sees her and says something like 'That cigarette's for me, right?' so Alicia gives her the cigarette. Ten minutes later, she asks someone for a cigarette and takes it, but says 'I'll save it for later.' But despite the fact that a primary theme of this New Zealand film is her loss of innocence, as she tries drinking and sexual flirtation, etc., she never smokes or holds again. Her mother, who's less attractive and drinks too much, smokes once in a while. |
Strait-Jacket
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smokingsides
Nervously, then confidently. |
Strange Cargo
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smokingsides
There is a great scene where she performs a really thick nose-and-mouth exhale right in the leading man's face before kissing him on the mouth just three seconds later. |
The Best of Everything
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smokingsides
Crawford holds in an early scene, then lights with exhale at the end. Lange accepts a cigarette which mysteriously disappears in one scene, but drags, lights, and holds in three others. |
The Bride Wore Red
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Two holding scenes, one as she sings, and a light-up without inhale |
The Damned Don't Cry
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Several scenes in black and white |
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
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smokingsides
Haven't seen the movie, but a brief clip on TCM showed [Crawford] a classic, beautifully lit 'puff' lightup and subsequent inhale. The clip cut away before the exhale, so I don't know if the scene itself includes it. |
The Shining Hour
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smokingsides
Only two lightnings. The first with a typical hard Crawford-drag. |
The Women
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smokingsides
Russell smokes in three scenes with a faint talk-exhale in one of them. Shearer performs two close-up lightings, inhaling only from the second. Crawford picks up a smouldering cigarette from an ashtray, takes a drag, and talks for a few seconds before exhaling. In other scenes she taps her cigarette before lighting, and hooks her smoke down real deep in classic style while relaxing in a bubble bath. For me, though, Goddard steals the show with a cool lighting, but she spoils it by not inhaling. |
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smokingsides
both share a joint about an hour into the movie. Visible drags from Meg Ryan, exhale cannot be seen due to the lighting. Midler takes a few drags and there are a couple of visible snap inhales, but the exhales are nothing to write home about. |
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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smokingsides
Gillespie has one good scene where she holds the smoke in her mouth a while before exhaling. Crawford, Bennett and Lee are all awful to look at, however, so their smoking isn't worth looking out for. |
When Ladies Meet
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smokingsides
saw last half of movie, Greer Garson is stunning but does not smoke well, a few scenes with Joan also |
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