# Joan Crawford

> She ruled Hollywood for decades, then lost it, then clawed it back with an Oscar - and the last word on her life came from her daughter's scorched-earth memoir.

*American actress (1908-1977)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1905-03-23
- **Died:** 1977-05-10
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born Lucille Fay LeSueur, Crawford danced in traveling shows before Broadway led to an MGM contract in 1925. She built herself into a flapper icon through sheer publicity effort, then spent the 1930s playing Depression-era rags-to-riches heroines that made her one of the highest-paid women in America - until the films stopped making money and the industry labeled her box office poison. After nearly two years off screen, she came back in Mildred Pierce (1945) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She married Pepsi-Cola president Alfred Steele in 1955, joined the company's board after his death in 1959, and stayed until 1973. Crawford adopted five children; her relationship with the two eldest, Christina and Christopher, was bitter enough that she disinherited them both. After her final film, Trog, in 1970, she withdrew from public life entirely - then Christina published Mommie Dearest and turned the Crawford name into shorthand for maternal cruelty.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 70.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 6.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 28.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 30.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001076/ (@nm0001076)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2KSL1Qpasae0r4XALGrlF2 (@2KSL1Qpasae0r4XALGrlF2)

## Timeline
- **1977** - Died
- **1970** - Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
- **1946** - Academy Award for Best Actress
- **1925** - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- **1905** - Born

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