Joan Crawford’s complicated and often painful early life is back in the spotlight as a new biography revisits one of Hollywood’s darkest, most persistent rumors, that the legendary actress lost her ...

Joan Crawford, née Lucille Fay LaSueur, was married four times, and according to the legendary film star, each of her husbands left her with more wisdom than the one before. Crawford first wed actor ...

'Ultimate movie star' Joan Crawford's enduring legacy continues to be celebrated.

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Joan knew a thing or two about cooking, mainly out of necessity. She grew up in a meat-and-potatoes era where dishes like boiled beef, meatloaf and roast beef hash were commonplace. According to The ...

Many people know the campy horror flick “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” and the 1945 noir thriller that won Crawford her Oscar, “Mildred Pierce.” These three films, available to rent for less than ...

She was one of Hollywood’s brightest and most controversial stars. For nearly five decades, Joan Crawford captivated audiences from the silent era to the 1960s in roles that defined the grit and ...

Biographer Scott Eyman reveals that there was much more to the star than what we think we know from Mommie Dearest and the ...

Great actors change every time we see them, but the great movie stars succeed on the strength of the personas they carry from film to film. Those personas can also serve, consciously or unconsciously, ...

It’s not certain when Joan Crawford was born — various sources say 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1908 (that’s showbiz) — but she definitely died in 1977, and ...