biography
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Crawford, Joan
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originally Lucille Fay Le Sueur
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1904–77)
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| biography:
| Film actress, born in San Antonio, Texas, USA. At first a nightclub dancer, she started in silent films in 1925, taking the lead in Our Dancing Daughters (1928). She became an established star in the 1930s and 1940s, winning an Oscar for Mildred Pierce (1945); her last great role was in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), in which she co-starred with her long-standing rival, Bette Davis. After her death, a very critical biography, Mommie Dearest, by her adopted daughter Christine, was filmed in 1981. |
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