Time for our next Star of the Day...and it belongs to one of my all time favorite women...Miss Lucille Fay LeSueur ....or better known to us as Joan Crawford. Beginning her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract with 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, Crawfords fame rivaled, and later outlasted, MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and success. These rags-to-riches stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywoods 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. But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. As always..Please remember to be Respectful of your fellow Babylonians. Joan is gone..and doesnt care...but...it is important to be kind to one another!!! Cheers!!!
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:56:16 +0000
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