• Category: Motion pictures
• Star rank: 261
• Address:
  1774 Vine St
• Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
• GPS location:
  34.103172, -118.326554

Crawford photographed in 1948

Source: Wikipedia

Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting 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 began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In 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 and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled “box office poison”.

• Born: Lucille Fay LeSueur March 23, 1905 San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
• Died: May 10, 1977 (aged 72) New York City, New York, U.S.
• Occupation: Actress
• Years active: 1925–1972
• Spouse(s): Douglas Fairbanks, Jr (1929–1933) Franchot Tone (1935–1939) Phillip Terry (1942–1946) Alfred Steele (1955–1959)

Read more about Joan Crawford at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

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Nearby you will also find Rory Calhoun, Bonnie Raitt, Clarence Brown, Garth Brooks, Beverly Bayne, Bruce Humberstone, John Lennon, Dave Koz, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and many others.