Filmography of Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford
acted in a large number of movies during the course of her career. They are listed here in their entirety, along with TV appearances and archival footage.
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
acted in a large number of movies during the course of her career. They are listed here in their entirety, along with TV appearances and archival footage.
Silent Films
Year | # | | Title | | Role | | Production Company |
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1925 | 1 | Lady of the Night Lady of the Night Lady of the Night is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film stars Norma Shearer in a dual role.-Plot:Chris Helmer is sentenced to 20 years in prison by Judge Banning , and has to leave his wife and baby girl... (Extant) |
double for Norma Shearer Norma Shearer Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s... |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer... |
2 | Proud Flesh Proud Flesh (film) Proud Flesh is a 1925 silent comedy-drama film directed by King Vidor.-Plot:A San Francisco earthquake orphan is adopted by relatives in Spain and gets wooed by a Romeo there. She turns him down to return to a San Francisco plumber.-Cast:... (Extant) |
San Francisco Girl | ||
3 | A Slave of Fashion A Slave of Fashion A Slave of Fashion was a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Norma Shearer. Joan Crawford had an early uncredited role as a mannequin. The film is considered lost. -Plot:... (Lost) |
Mannequin | ||
4 | The Merry Widow The Merry Widow (1925 film) The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent MGM romantic drama film and black comedy directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. The film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert and Roy D'Arcy. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable had uncredited roles in the film.... (Extant) |
Ballroom Dancing Extra | ||
5 | Pretty Ladies Pretty Ladies Pretty Ladies is a silent comedy-drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell, the film was written by Alice D.G... (Extant) |
Bobby, a showgirl | ||
6 | The Circle The Circle (1925 film) The Circle is a 1925 film directed by Frank Borzage. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis and Joan Crawford on an early role. It is written by Kenneth B. Clarke based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. The 1921 Broadway play had starred John Drew, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie... (Extant) |
Young Lady Catherine | ||
7 | The Midshipman The Midshipman The Midshipman is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne. The film stars Ramon Novarro and Harriet Hammond. Joan Crawford had an early uncredited role as an extra. -Cast:*Ramon Novarro as Dick Randall... |
Extra | ||
8 | The Exquisite Sinner (Lost) | Extra | ||
9 | The Big Parade The Big Parade The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film. It tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.The film was... (Extant) |
Extra | ||
10 | Ben Hur Ben-Hur (1925 film) Ben-Hur is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo. It was a blockbuster hit for newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the second film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace... (Extant) |
Extra | ||
11 | Old Clothes Old Clothes Old Clothes is a 1925 MGM silent film, starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford.This was the first film in which Miss Crawford was credited with her new name — Joan Crawford... (Extant) |
Mary Riley | ||
12 | The Only Thing The Only Thing The Only Thing is a silent 1925 costume drama, starring Eleanor Boardman. This filmed marks the beginning of director's Jack Conway long career at MGM. The film is also notable for featuring, in her second film role, a young Joan Crawford, playing a minor part as a lady in waiting... |
Party Guest | ||
13 | Sally, Irene and Mary Sally, Irene and Mary Sally, Irene, and Mary is a 1925 film starring Constance Bennett, Sally O'Neil, and Joan Crawford. The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the romantic lives of three chorus girls and the way their preferences in men affect their lives.... (Extant) |
Irene | ||
1926 | 14 | Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is an American comedy silent film directed by Harry Edwards. It features Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford.-Plot:The film tells of Harry a ne'er-do-well who falls in love with Betty... (Extant) |
Betty Burton | First National Pictures |
15 | The Boob The Boob The Boob is a romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by William Wellman, and starring Gertrude Olmstead, Antonio D'Algy, George K. Arthur, and Joan Crawford.-Plot:... (Extant) |
Jane | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
16 | Paris Paris (1926 film) Paris is a silent film, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film starred Charles Ray, Douglas Gilmore, and Joan Crawford. Ray stars as a young American millionaire named Jerry who is vacationing in Paris and visits an Apache den, the Birdcage Cafe,... |
The Girl | ||
1927 | 17 | Winners of the Wilderness Winners of the Wilderness Winners of the Wilderness is a MGM silent film, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford. In this costume drama, set during the French-Indian War, Rene Contrecouer , the daughter of a French general falls for a soldier of fortune... (Extant) |
René Contrecoeur | |
18 | The Taxi Dancer The Taxi Dancer The Taxi Dancer is a 1927 silent comedy film starring Joan Crawford and Douglas Gilmore. Crawford plays Joselyn Poe, a southern girl who tries her luck as dancer in New York... (Extant) |
Joslyn Poe | ||
19 | The Understanding Heart The Understanding Heart The Understanding Heart is a American silent film, directed by Jack Conway and starring Joan Crawford. The film was adapted for the screen by Edward T. Lowe Jr. from a novel by Peter B. Kyne. Joan Crawford said "I got my first rave reviews in The Understanding Heart." -Plot:Forest ranger Bob Mason... |
Monica Dale | ||
20 | The Unknown (Extant) | Estrellita or Nanon, Zanzi's Daughter | ||
21 | Twelve Miles Out Twelve Miles Out Twelve Miles Out is a 1927 silent drama film starring John Gilbert and Joan Crawford.-Plot summary:Jerry Fay , is a bootlegger who expropriates the home of society girl, June , for his illicit activities... (Extant) |
Jane | ||
22 | Spring Fever Spring Fever (1927 film) Spring Fever is a 1927 silent film starring William Haines and Joan Crawford and is based on a play by Vincent Lawrence. This was the second film together for Haines and Crawford, and their first romantic teaming. In March 2009 this film had its first ever home video release through the Warner... (Extant) |
Allie Monte | ||
1928 | 23 | West Point West Point (1928 film) West Point is a 1928 silent romantic drama film starring William Haines and Joan Crawford in a story about an arrogant cadet who finds love and discipline just in time for the big Army-Navy game. The story and screenplay were written by Raymond L. Schrock with titles written by Joseph Farnham. The... (Extant) |
Betty Channing | |
24 | The Law of the Range The Law of the Range The Law of the Range is a 1928 American silent Western film starring Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford and Rex Lease.-Cast:*Tim McCoy - Jim Lockhart*Joan Crawford - Betty Dallas*Rex Lease - Solitaire Kid*Bodil Rosing - Mother of Jim and the Kid... |
Betty Dallas | ||
25 | Rose-Marie Rose-Marie (1928 film) Rose-Marie was a 1928 drama film directed by Lucien Hubbard. It is the first of three MGM adaptations of the 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness... (Lost) |
Rose-Marie | ||
26 | Across to Singapore Across to Singapore Across to Singapore is a 1928 silent film by director William Nigh starring Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford. The plot involves a love triangle between a woman and two brothers, set on board ship and in Singapore... (Extant) |
Priscilla Crowninshield | ||
27 | Four Walls Four Walls (film) Four Walls is a 1928 film starring John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, and Carmel Myers. This is a lost film. -Plot summary:Benny Horowitz , a reformed gangster, proposes marriage to Bertha , a neighbor who had been a frequent visitor while he served his sentence... (Lost) |
Frieda | ||
29 | Our Dancing Daughters Our Dancing Daughters Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent drama film starring Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown , about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and produced by Hunt Stromberg... (Extant) |
Diana Medford | Cosmopolitan Production (an MGM company) | |
29 | Dream of Love Dream of Love Dream of Love is a 1928 MGM silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther. The film is based on the play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. In the film, Asther plays Prince Maurice de Saxe and Crawford plays Adrienne Lecouvreur, a Gypsy... (Lost) |
Adrienne Lecouvreur | ||
1929 | 30 | The Duke Steps Out The Duke Steps Out The Duke Steps Out is a 1929 silent film starring William Haines and Joan Crawford. The film is lost, but the apparent Vitaphone sound discs track survive at UCLA Film and Tv Archives... (Lost) |
Susie | |
31 | Tide of Empire Tide of Empire Tide of Empire is an American western film directed by Allan Dwan. The film stars Renee Adoree and Tom Keene. The film was originally slated to star Joan Crawford in the female lead, but the final filming had Renee Adoree instead of Crawford... |
Josephita Guerrero (Incomplete Project) | ||
32 | Our Modern Maidens Our Modern Maidens Our Modern Maidens is a 1929 silent film directed by Jack Conway. Starring Joan Crawford in her last silent film role, the film also stars Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Anita Page. Our Modern Maidens is the second of three film where Crawford and Page appear together... (Extant) |
Billie Brown |
Sound Features
Year | # | | Title | | Role | | Production Company |
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1929 | 33 | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some... |
Specialty | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
34 | Untamed Untamed (1929 film) Untamed is a 1929 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama/comedy/romance motion picture starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. Others in the cast include Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, and Lloyd Ingraham.... |
Alice "Bingo" Dowling | ||
1930 | 35 | Montana Moon Montana Moon Montana Moon is a 1930 film starring Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown , and Ricardo Cortez.-Plot:Joan Prescott, , a vacuous daughter of a wealthy, Montana rancher, meets Larry , a Texas cowboy. Joan and Larry fall for one another and are engaged... |
Joan Prescott | |
36 | Our Blushing Brides Our Blushing Brides Our Blushing Brides is a 1930 drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian. The film was a follow-up to Our Dancing Daughters and Our Modern Maidens , and was a commercial success when it was released.The two previous installments in the series were both... |
Gerry Marsh | ||
37 | Paid Paid (1930 film) Paid is a 1930 American drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, and Kent Douglass in a story about a wrongly accused ex-convict who seeks revenge, within the law, on those who sent her to prison. The film was adapted by Lucien Hubbard and Charles MacArthur from the play, Within the... |
Mary Turner | ||
1931 | 38 | Dance, Fools, Dance Dance, Fools, Dance Dance, Fools, Dance is a pre-code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Lester Vail in a story about a reporter investigating the murder of a colleague. Story and dialogue were created by Aurania Rouverol, and the film was directed by Harry Beaumont... |
Bonnie Jordan | |
39 | Complete Surrender | Ivy Stevens | ||
40 | Laughing Sinners Laughing Sinners Laughing Sinners Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a cafe entertainer who experiences spiritual redemption. The dialogue by Martin Flavin was based upon the play, Torch Song by Kenyon Nicholson. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont... (remake of Complete Surrender) |
Ivy Stevens | ||
41 | This Modern Age This Modern Age This Modern Age is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film directed by Nick Grinde starring Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Frederick and Albert Conti... |
Val Winters | ||
42 | Wir Schalten um auf Hollywood | Herself | ||
43 | Possessed Possessed (1931 film) Possessed is a Pre-Code 1931 drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is the story of Marian Martin, a factory worker who rises to the top as the mistress of a wealthy attorney. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee... |
Marian Martin | ||
1932 | 44 | Grand Hotel Grand Hotel (film) Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum... |
Flaemmchen | |
45 | Letty Lynton Letty Lynton Letty Lynton is a 1932 MGM drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther. The film was directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. Crawford plays the title character, in a tale of love and blackmail.The film has... |
Letty Lynton | ||
46 | Rain Rain (1932 film) Rain is a 1932 South Seas drama film directed by Lewis Milestone with portions filmed at Santa Catalina Island, California. The film stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson and Walter Huston as a conflicted missionary who wants to reform Sadie, but whose own morals start decaying... |
Sadie Thompson | United Artists United Artists United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.... |
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1933 | 47 | Today We Live Today We Live Today We Live is a 1933 film starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, and Franchot Tone. The film is based on "Turnabout" by William Faulkner. Faulkner also provided the dialogue for the film, making it the only film version of his work that Faulkner co-wrote. Joan Crawford's character... |
Diana "Ann" Boyce-Smith | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
48 | Dancing Lady Dancing Lady Dancing Lady is a 1933 musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, the fourth of eight collaborations between Crawford and Gable. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the... |
Janie "Duchess" Barlow | ||
1934 | 49 | Sadie McKee Sadie McKee Sadie McKee is a 1934 motion picture, directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone and Edward Arnold. In the film, Crawford plays the title character—a young working girl suffering through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity.-Synopsis:Sadie... |
Sadie McKee Brennan | |
50 | Chained Chained (1934 film) Chained is a 1934 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Otto Kruger. The plot concerns a kept woman who finds herself drawn to a charismatic South American rancher while aboard a cruise, all the while still harboring feelings for her married lover... |
Diane Lovering, also called "Dinah" | ||
51 | Forsaking All Others Forsaking All Others Forsaking All Others is a 1934 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery. In this "comedy of errors", three friends of long-standing are involved in a love triangle. The screenplay was written by Joseph L.... |
Mary Clay | ||
1935 | 52 | No More Ladies No More Ladies No More Ladies is a 1935 film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Franchot Tone, directed by Edward H. Griffith and George Cukor. It is based on a play by A.E. Thomas... |
Marcia Townsend | |
53 | I Live My Life I Live My Life I Live My Life is a 1935 film, starring Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, and Frank Morgan, and is based on the story Claustrophobia, by A. Carter Goodloe.-Plot summary:... |
Kay Bentley | ||
1936 | 54 | The Gorgeous Hussy The Gorgeous Hussy The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The film's plot tells a fictionalized account of President of the United States Andrew Jackson and an innkeeper's daughter... |
Margaret O'Neal "Peggy" Eaton | |
55 | Love on the Run Love on the Run (1936 film) Love on the Run is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, and Clark Gable in a story about rival newspaper correspondents assigned to cover the marriage of a socialite. The screenplay by Gladys Hurlbut, John Lee Mahin and Manuel Seff was based upon the story by... |
Sally Parker | ||
1937 | 56 | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937 film) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1937 drama/comedy motion picture starring Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery and Frank Morgan. The film tells the story of a chic jewel thief in England, who falls in love with one of her marks.... |
Fay Cheyney | |
57 | The Bride Wore Red The Bride Wore Red The Bride Wore Red is a 1937 motion picture, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young and Billie Burke. It was based on the unproduced play The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnár. In this "rags to riches" tale, Crawford plays a cabaret singer who poses as... |
Anni Pavlovitch | ||
1938 | 58 | Mannequin Mannequin (1937 film) Mannequin is 1937 film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy and Alan Curtis. In the film, Crawford plays Jessie, a young working class woman who seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind... |
Jessica Cassidy | |
59 | The Shining Hour The Shining Hour The Shining Hour is a 1938 MGM film, based on a 1934 play by Keith Winter. The film starred Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, and Fay Bainter.-Plot summary:... |
Olivia Riley | ||
1939 | 60 | Ice Follies of 1939 | Mary McKay, a.k.a Sandra Lee | |
61 | The Women The Women (1939 film) The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.The film... |
Crystal Allen | ||
1940 | 62 | Strange Cargo | Julie | |
63 | Susan and God Susan and God Susan and God is a 1940 comedy-drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March in a story about a matron who finds religion. The screenplay by Anita Loos was based upon a 1937 play by Rachel Crothers. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Hunt... |
Susan Trexel | ||
1941 | 64 | A Woman's Face A Woman's Face A Woman's Face is a 1941 drama film directed by George Cukor, starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt. It tells the story of Anna Holm, a facially disfigured blackmailer, who because of her appearance despises everyone she encounters... |
Anna Holm | |
65 | When Ladies Meet When Ladies Meet (1941 film) When Ladies Meet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher. The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Anita Loos was based upon a 1932 play by Rachel Crothers. The... |
Mary Howard | ||
1942 | 66 | They All Kissed the Bride They All Kissed the Bride They All Kissed the Bride is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, and Billie Burke in a story about a trucking firm executive who falls in love. The screenplay by P. J. Wolfson was based on a story by Gina Kaus and Andrew P. Solt. The film was... |
Margaret Drew | Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies... |
67 | Reunion in France Reunion in France Reunion in France is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Phillip Dorn, and John Wayne in a story about a woman who, suspecting her well-heeled lover has Nazi connections, aids a downed American flyer. The screenplay by Jan Lustig, Marvin Borowsky and Marc Connelly was based... |
Michelle de la Becque | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
1943 | 68 | Above Suspicion Above Suspicion (1943 film) Above Suspicion is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer spy drama film starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray as newlyweds who spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon, along with Basil Rathbone as a Nazi who pursues them. The screenplay by Keith Winter, Melville Baker, and... |
Frances Myles | |
1944 | 69 | Hollywood Canteen Hollywood Canteen (1944 film) Hollywood Canteen is a 1944 Warner Bros. film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo roles... |
Herself | Warner Brothers |
1945 | 70 | Mildred Pierce Mildred Pierce (film) Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American drama film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, William Faulkner, and Catherine Turney was based upon the 1941... |
Mildred Pierce | |
1946 | 71 | Humoresque Humoresque (film) Humoresque is a 1946 Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness. The screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold was based upon a novel by Fannie Hurst... |
Helen Wright | |
1947 | 72 | Possessed Possessed (1947 film) Possessed is a 1947 Warner Bros. film starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey in a tale about an unstable woman's obsession with her ex-lover. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall and Silvia Richards was based upon a story by Rita Weiman. The film was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and... |
Louise Howell Graham | |
1948 | 73 | Daisy Kenyon Daisy Kenyon Daisy Kenyon is a 20th Century Fox feature film starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, and Dana Andrews in a story about a post-World War II romantic triangle. The screenplay by David Hertz was based upon a 1945 novel by Elizabeth Janeway. The film was directed and produced by Otto Preminger. Daisy... |
Daisy Kenyon | 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios... |
1949 | 74 | Flamingo Road Flamingo Road (1949 film) Flamingo Road is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian in a noir story about small town political corruption. The screenplay by Edmund H. North was based on a play by Robert and Sally Wilder, which was adapted from Robert Wilder's... |
Lane Bellamy | Warner Brothers |
75 | It's a Great Feeling It's a Great Feeling It's a Great Feeling is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan in a spoof of what goes on behind-the-scenes in Hollywood movie-making. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based upon a story by I.A.L. Diamond. The film was directed by... |
Herself | ||
1950 | 76 | The Damned Don't Cry! The Damned Don't Cry! The Damned Don't Cry! is a 1950 Warner Bros. drama film starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Steve Cochran tells of a woman's involvement with an organized crime boss and his subordinates. The screenplay by Harold Medford and Jerome Weidman was based on a story by Gertrude Walker. The plot... |
Ethel Whitehead | |
77 | Harriet Craig Harriet Craig Harriet Craig is a 1950 Columbia Pictures film starring Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon a 1925 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by George Kelly. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by William Dozier... |
Harriet Craig | Columbia Pictures | |
1951 | 78 | Goodbye, My Fancy Goodbye, My Fancy Goodbye, My Fancy is a 1951 Warner Bros. film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young, and Frank Lovejoy in a light tale about a woman and her old flame. The screenplay by Ivan Goff was based upon a 1948 play by Fay Kanin. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke... |
Agatha Reed | Warner Brothers |
1952 | 79 | This Woman is Dangerous This Woman Is Dangerous This Woman is Dangerous is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Dennis Morgan in a story about a gun moll's romances with two different men. The screenplay by Geoffrey Homes and George Worthing Yates was based on a story by Bernard Girard. The film was directed by... |
Beth Austin | |
80 | Sudden Fear Sudden Fear Sudden Fear is a 1952 RKO Radio Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in a noir-ish tale about a successful woman who marries a murderous man. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee and Robert Smith was based upon the novel by Edna Sherry. Sudden Fear was directed by David... |
Myra Hudson | RKO Radio Pictures | |
1953 | 81 | Torch Song Torch Song (film) Torch Song is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding in a story about a Broadway star and her rehearsal pianist. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes and Jan Lustig was based upon the story "Why Should I Cry?" by I.A.R. Wylie... |
Jenny Stewart | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
1954 | 82 | Johnny Guitar Johnny Guitar Johnny Guitar is a 1954 Republic Pictures Western film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady.The screenplay was based upon a novel by Roy Chanslor. Though credited to Philip Yordan, he was merely a front for the actual screenwriter, blacklistee Ben Maddow. ... |
Vienna | Republic Pictures Republic Pictures Republic Pictures was an independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1934 through 1959, and was best known for specializing in westerns, movie serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action.... |
1955 | 83 | Female on the Beach Female on the Beach Female on the Beach is a Universal-International feature film starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler in a story about a widow and her beach bum lover. The screenplay by Robert Hill and Richard Alan Simmons was based on the play The Besieged Heart by Robert Hill... |
Lynn Markham | Universal Pictures Universal Pictures -1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire... |
84 | Queen Bee Queen Bee (film) Queen Bee is a 1955 drama film starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Fay Wray, Betsy Palmer, and Barry Sullivan in a story about a family dominated by a ruthless woman. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall was based upon a novel by Edna L. Lee. The film was directed by Ranald MacDougall and produced... |
Eva Phillips | Columbia Pictures | |
1956 | 85 | Autumn Leaves Autumn Leaves (film) Autumn Leaves is a 1956 Columbia Pictures drama film starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson in an older woman/younger man tale of mental illness. The screenplay was written by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler, though it was credited to Jack Jevne, Rouverol and Butler being blacklisted at the time... |
Millicent Wetherby | |
1957 | 86 | The Story of Esther Costello The Story of Esther Costello The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, and Heather Sears . The film is an exposé of large-scale fundraising. The Story of Esther Costello was produced by David Miller and Jack Clayton with Miller directing... |
Margaret Landi | |
1959 | 87 | The Best of Everything The Best of Everything (1959 film) The Best of Everything is a 20th Century-Fox film starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Joan Crawford... |
Amanda Farrow | 20th Century Fox |
1962 | 88 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel of the same name by Henry Farrell... |
Blanche Hudson | Warner Brothers |
1963 | 89 | The Caretakers The Caretakers The Caretakers is a 1963 United Artists film drama starring Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen and Janis Paige in a story about a mental hospital.... |
Lucretia Terry | United Artists |
1964 | 90 | Strait-Jacket Strait-Jacket Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American thriller film starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axe-murders. Released by Columbia Pictures, the film was directed and produced by William Castle, and co-produced by Dona Holloway... |
Lucy Harbin | Columbia Pictures |
1965 | 91 | I Saw What You Did I Saw What You Did I Saw What You Did is a Universal Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Ireland in a tale of murder. The screenplay by William P. McGivern was based upon the 1964 novel Out of the Dark by Ursula Curtiss. The film was directed and produced by William Castle, and co-produced by... |
Amy Nelson | Universal Pictures |
1967 | 92 | The Karate Killers The Karate Killers The Karate Killers is a 1967 film based on the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. The film was based on the two-part episode of the series 'The Five Daughters Affair' which aired in April 1967 by NBC.-Synopsis:... |
Amanda True | MGM |
1968 | 93 | Berserk! Berserk! Berserk! is a 1967 British Technicolor thriller film starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, and Judy Geeson in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a circus plagued with murders. The screenplay was written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Jim O'Connolly... |
Monica Rivers | Columbia Pictures |
1970 | 94 | Trog Trog Trog is a 1970 science fiction horror film starring Joan Crawford in a story about the discovery of a caveman. The screenplay was written by Peter Bryan, John Gilling, and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Freddie Francis... |
Dr. Brockton | Warner Brothers |
Miscellaneous
Year | # | | Title | | Role | | Production Company |
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1964 | 1 | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Miriam Deering (uncredited) | 20th Century Fox |
Short films
Year | # | Title | Role | Production Company |
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1925 | 1 | MGM Studio Tour | Herself | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
1925 | 2 | Miss MGM | Miss MGM | |
1929 | 3 | Hollywood Snapshots #11 | Herself | Columbia Pictures |
1931 | 4 | The Slippery Pearls The Stolen Jools The Stolen Jools is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day... |
Herself | Masquers Club of Hollywood |
1932 | 5 | Screen Snapshots | Herself | Columbia Pictures |
Archival Footage
Year | # | | Title | | Role | | Production Company |
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1964 | 1 | Four Days in November | Herself | David L. Wolper David L. Wolper David Lloyd Wolper was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory... United Artists |
1964 | 2 | MGM's Big Parade of Comedy | Herself | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
1974 | 3 | That's Entertainment! That's Entertainment! That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!.... |
Herself | |
1984 | 4 | Terror in the Aisles Terror in the Aisles Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 documentary film about horror films featuring clips from Friday the 13th I and/or II, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws 1 and 2, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Shining and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and The Birds. The film is hosted by... |
Herself | |
1985 | 5 | That's Dancing! That's Dancing! That's Dancing! is a 1985 retrospective documentary produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that looked back at the history of dancing in film. Unlike the That's Entertainment! series, this film did not focus specifically on MGM films and included more recent performances by the likes of John Travolta and... |
Herself |
Unfinished Films
Year | # | |Title | |Role | |Production Company |
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1929 | 1 | Tide of Empire Tide of Empire Tide of Empire is an American western film directed by Allan Dwan. The film stars Renee Adoree and Tom Keene. The film was originally slated to star Joan Crawford in the female lead, but the final filming had Renee Adoree instead of Crawford... |
Josephita | MGM |
1930 | 2 | Great Day Great Day Great Day is an unreleased 1930 musical film which was to star Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Johnny Mack Brown, and is an unusual example of a production that was started and shut down before its completion.-Overview:... |
Susie Totheridge | MGM |
1930 | 3 | The March of Time (film) | Herself | MGM |
1964 | 4 | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Miriam Deering | 20th Century Fox |
Television Guest Performances
Date | # | Series Title | Episode Title | | Role | Network |
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September 19, 1953 | 1 | Revlon's Mirror Theater | "Because I Love Him" | Margaret Hughes | CBS |
October 31, 1954 | 2 | General Electric Theater General Electric Theater General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:... |
"The Road to Edinburgh" | Mary Andrews | CBS |
March 23, 1958 | 3 | General Electric Theater General Electric Theater General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:... |
"Strange Witness" | Ruth | CBS |
January 4, 1959 | 4 | General Electric Theater General Electric Theater General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:... |
"And One Was Loyal" | Ann Howard | CBS |
December 3, 1959 | 5 | Dick Powell Dick Powell Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.-Biography:... 's Zane Grey Theater |
"Rebel Range" | Stella Faring | CBS |
January 12, 1961 | 6 | Dick Powell Dick Powell Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.-Biography:... 's Zane Grey Theater |
"One Must Die" | Sarah Davidson/Melanie Davidson | CBS |
October 4, 1963 | 7 | Route 66 Route 66 (TV series) Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod... |
"Same Picture, Different Frame" | Morgan Harper | CBS |
March 31, 1967 | 8 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement... |
"The Five Daughters Affair The Karate Killers The Karate Killers is a 1967 film based on the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. The film was based on the two-part episode of the series 'The Five Daughters Affair' which aired in April 1967 by NBC.-Synopsis:... ", Part 1 |
Amanda True | NBC |
February 26, 1968 | 9 | The Lucy Show The Lucy Show The Lucy Show is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1962 until 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965-66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program... |
"Lucy and Joan Crawford or The Lost Star" | Herself | CBS |
Oct. 21, 1968 | 10 | The Secret Storm The Secret Storm The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life... |
[daytime soap opera] | Joan Boreman Kane #2 | CBS |
Oct. 22, 1968 | 11 | The Secret Storm The Secret Storm The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life... |
[daytime soap opera] | Joan Boreman Kane #2 | CBS |
Oct. 24, 1968 | 12 | The Secret Storm The Secret Storm The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life... |
[daytime soap opera] | Joan Boreman Kane #2 | CBS |
Oct. 25, 1968 | 13 | The Secret Storm The Secret Storm The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life... |
[daytime soap opera] | Joan Boreman Kane #2 | CBS |
January 21, 1970 | 14 | The Virginian The Virginian (TV series) The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series... |
"The Nightmare" | Stephanie White | NBC |
January 30, 1970 | 15 | The Tim Conway Show | "Pilot" | Herself | CBS |
September 30, 1972 | 17 | The Sixth Sense The Sixth Sense (TV series) The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television series featuring Gary Collins and Catherine Ferrar. Based on the 1971 television movie Sweet, Sweet Rachel, the series was broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company from January 1972 through December 1972.-Synopsis:Collins is... |
"Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death!" | Joan Fairchild | ABC |
Made for TV Films
Date | # | Series Title | Episode Title | | Role | Network |
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1959 | 1 | The Joan Crawford Show | "Woman On The Run" | Susan Conrad | Unaired |
September 21, 1961 | 2 | The Foxes | [made-for-TV Movie] | Millicent Fox | NBC |
August 8, 1964 | 3 | Della | [made-for-TV movie] | Della Chappell | Syndicated |
November 6, 1969 | 4 | Night Gallery Night Gallery Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although... |
"Eyes" [made-for-TV Movie] | Claudia Menlo | NBC |
November 8, 1969 | 5 | Garbo Garbo -People:* Greta Garbo , Swedish actress* Gunnar Garbo , Norwegian journalist, politician and former Ambassador to Tanzania* Ingvald Garbo , member of the Norwegian Resistance in World War II... |
Documentary | Herself | BBC |
June 15, 1970 | 6 | Journey to the Unknown | [made-for-TV Movie] | Herself | Syndicated |
January 5, 1971 | 7 | Journey to Murder | [made-for-TV Movie] | Herself | Syndicated |
February 2, 1975 | 8 | Easter Island Easter Island Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people... |
Documentary | Narrator | PBS |
March 18, 1975 | 9 | Scare Her to Death! | [made-for-TV Movie] | Joan Fairchild | ITV |