Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford spanned cinema history and re-invented herself for each new generation of moviegoers. Born in Texas in 1904, she was discovered dancing in a Broadway chorus line and was signed by the then newly established studio MGM in 1924. Crawford got h
Filmography Highlights
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That's Entertainment! III
1994- Rated:
- U
Although not quite the popular success of its two predecessors, this (happily shorter) assemblage of clips from MGM's musical heyday is a valid extension of the idea from the 1974 50th-anniversary or
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
1962- Rated:
- X
Quintessential melodrama starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as sisters and former stars trapped in a neurotic co-dependent relationship
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Best Of Everything, The
1959- Rated:
- TBC
Entertaining multi-stranded drama following the lives and loves of four young women working as secretaries in a large publishing house in New York.
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Autumn Leaves
1956- Rated:
- TBC
Crawford is always captivating to watch, and her performance as the unmarried Millicent Weatherby, in Aldrich's 1956 potboiler proves to be no exception. Millicent gets more than she bargained for wh
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Queen Bee
1955- Rated:
- TBC
A wealthy Southern belle takes great pleasure in ruining the lives of anyone who has the misfortune to encounter her. Melodrama starring Joan Crawford
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Johnny Guitar
1954- Rated:
- PG
Intense, high camp study of revenge and frustration in America's wild west from Nicholas Ray. A film beloved of French New Wavers and Martin Scorsese
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Torch Song
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Emotionally rich and powerful romantic drama starring Joan Crawford as a neurotically perfectionist musical comedy star who falls in love with her new blind accompanist-arranger Michael Wilding.
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Harriet Craig
1950- Rated:
- TBC
An appalling woman expresses more love for her home than her patient family. Drama starring Joan Crawford
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Daisy Kenyon
1947- Rated:
- TBC
Soapy stuff with Crawford (a hotshot fashion illustrator), Andrews (a tough-talking lawyer) and Fonda (a former soldier) fighting it out in the lather. Crawford, of course, is the dominant member of
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Humoresque
1946- Rated:
- TBC
Crawford's entry is delayed for 30 minutes, but it is well worth waiting for. She is at her predatory best as a wealthy patron of the arts who patronizes, in both senses, a young violinist (Garfield,
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Mildred Pierce
1945- Rated:
- PG
Re-release of a Joan Crawford classic, a triumph for her at the time after being let go by studio MGM
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Above Suspicion
1943- Rated:
- TBC
A continental honeymoon for an American Oxford University professor and his bride masks a dangerous mission - to locate a missing British agent in pre-war Germany. As typical tourists they should be
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They All Kissed the Bride
1942- Rated:
- TBC
Ball-busting haulage boss Joan Crawford and investigative journalist Melvyn Douglas clash heads and hearts in this romantic comedy from director Alexander Hall
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Woman's Face, A
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Crawford gives one of her best performances in this remake of a similarly titled 1938 Swedish effort (itself based on the play 'Il Etait une Fois'), as a petty criminal whose behaviour is largely inf
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Strange Cargo
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Even devoted fans of Gable and Crawford may be left confounded by this one. A bunch of prisoners on Devil's Island make their bid for freedom, under the shadow of a Christ-like figure who holds the k
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The Women
1939- Rated:
- U
Golden Age Hollywood comedy from director George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in a scathing story of love, betrayal and revenge
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Bride Wore Red, The
1937- Rated:
- TBC
Drama starring Joan Crawford as a low-level singer persuaded by aristocrat George Zucco that she should pretend to be a mysterious society lady so that he can fool his high-class friends. However, ne
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Sadie McKee
1934- Rated:
- TBC
Absorbing Cinderella-style romantic melodrama starring Joan Crawford as a maid who falls for wastrel Gene Raymond and married drunken millionaire Edward Arnold but finally finds happiness with upper-
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Grand Hotel
1932- Rated:
- U
Betraying its novel and, especially, its stage origins, this early talkie was possibly the first of the portmanteau films and has a place in cinema history as a work that interweaves stories and char
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Possessed
1931- Rated:
- A
Joan Crawford stars in this romantic drama as an ambitious young woman who moves to New York to make her fortune, and thinks she finds an escape route from poverty when she begins an affair with a we
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Unknown, The
1927- Rated:
- PG
One of the best of the eight silent horror movies Browning and Chaney made together, it is also one of the most bizarre and macabre. Chaney - as usual, extraordinary in the physical contortions he do
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