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Joan Crawford is no ordinary actress, she is a movie superstar to be exact. "She woke up like a star, like a star when she went to the bathroom. She wrote back to fans to change into special clothes and another set for lunch."
From strippers to Hollywood superstars
Joan Crawford's childhood life is definitely not lucky, she was not born, her parents divorced, so her mother could only take her and her brother to remarry, the 11-year-old stepfather abandoned them again, the mother has been changing lovers, Joan Crawford's lifelong emotional life is probably also influenced by the mother.
Before the age of 20, she came to Chicago alone, saw other girls prettier than her, and couldn't help but cry, which impressed the agent, introduced her to a job, and danced striptease in nightclubs. In 1925, she went to Hollywood to try her luck, and by chance, she was favored by MGM's manager, who arranged for her to audition and signed a contract. After playing a small dancing role in her first film, Pretty Lady, and then making a lot of films of the same genre, the company felt that she had great potential for development, and in order to give her a suitable name, MGM published a large photo of her in a magazine, solicited her name nationwide, and finally decided on the name Joan Crawford.
Lady Luck finally began to pamper her, and in 1928, "Our Dancing Girls" was so critically acclaimed that Joan Crawford went straight to hollywood stars. At this time, the rise of sound films made the beautiful Joan Crawford more successful, her first sound film "Wild and Difficult to Tame" sold well at the box office, and the 1932 "Grand Hotel", which brought together all the superstars of MGM at that time, made Joan Crawford a first-line star.
In 1943, Joan Crawford left MGM to sign to Warner, and in 1945 won the 18th Academy Award for Best Actress for her excellence in "The Sea Of Desires". Two years later, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Serenade. After the 1950s, she began to change her screen image, playing some female robbers, broad women, and gambling cave owners who had become cruel and cold due to repeated misfortunes. 1952's "Fright Rise" earned her a nomination for best actress at the 25th Academy Awards.
Stills from the movie "Lust for the Sea Demon"
Life is more enjoyable than movies
Joan Crawford in the film often plays the role of a lady, but her emotional life is more enjoyable than his film role. After ending her marriage to the Broadway saxophonist, Joan Crawford married Douglas van Punk Jr. at a film premiere, and on October 8, 1928, they officially announced their engagement, and MGM promoted Crawford, who was about to marry into hollywood, to the throne of a superstar.
A year later, Crawford became a hot star in Hollywood, and Douglas began to socialize, their breakup was inevitable, and after ending his second marriage, Crawford fell into a relationship with Gable, she called him "the most beloved man of his life", but in the end, the relationship ended in vain, and Gable married Carol Lombard. Crawford soon became acquainted with stage actor Franshaine Thorne, and when Joan discovered that Franshaw was dating Betty Davis, she soon married him, and Joan Crawford's previous feud with Betty Davis became the talk of the media and fans, but unfortunately her relationship with Ton lasted only three years.
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
In 1942, Crawford, who was four married, began to adopt children, but because of her work, she did not have time to accompany them, she had emotional ups and downs, and she often lost her temper, which became the focus of her adopted daughter Christina's complaint in "My Dear Mommy".
If three Oscar nominations only made her a superstar in the golden Hollywood era, then joan Crawford was the real beginning of her life in the next decade.
Joan Crawford's fifth marriage was to Alfred Steele, the president of Pepsi, and the combination of Crawford and Steele made Pepsi famous for a time, and Crawford helped Pepsi achieve the same popularity as Coca-Cola with his fame. After Steele's death, her life became strained, she retired from Pepsi, she began to drink heavily, and on this day in 1977, Joan Crawford died in solitude.
In her mother's later years, there was nothing, no Pepsi, no Hollywood, no friends, and fewer and fewer reporters interviewed her. But she was not lonely at heart, because she was Crawford, and she was a stubborn woman who had struggled all her life, not the ordinary girl in the neighbor's house
Joan Crawford
♚1948 20th Academy Awards Best Actress (Nominated)
♚1946 18th Academy Awards Best Actress in The Sea Of Desires
♚1953 25th Academy Awards " Fear of Sudden Change " Best Actress ( Nominated )
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