Joan Crawford - biography

“I love playing bitches.  There’s a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.”

“I was born in front of a camera and really don’t know anything else.”

“It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.”

“Working with Bette Davis was my greatest challenge, and I mean that kindly.  She liked to scream and yell.  I just sit and knit.  During ‘What Happened to Baby Jane?’ I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu.”

“I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty...  in every form.”

“If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.”

“Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.”

“You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town.  Otherwise you will be destroyed.”

“I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star.  If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”

“I need sex for a clear complexion, but I’d rather do it for love.”

“Love is a fire.  But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

“Recently I heard a ‘wise guy’ story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men.  It’s an interesting story, but I don’t know twenty-five men I’d want to invite ta a party.”

“If you’ve earned a position, be proud of it.  Don’t hide it.  I want to be recognized.  When I hear people say, ‘There’s Joan Crawford!’ I turn around and say, ‘Hi!  How are you!’”

“I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.”

“Women’s Lib?  Poor little things.  They always look so unhappy.  Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?”

“I am just too much.”

“I believe in the dollar.  Everything I earn, I spend!”

Joan Crawford has appeared in the following films:
Pretty Ladies (1925)
A Slave of Fashion (1925)
The Merry Widow (1925)
The Circle (1925)
Old Clothes (1925)
The Only Thing (1925)
Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
The Boob (1926)
Paris (1926)
Winners of the Wilderness (1927)
The Taxi Dancer (1927)
The Understanding Heart (1927)
The Unknown (1927)
Twelve Miles Out (1927)
Spring Fever (1927)
West Point (1927)
The Law of the Range (1928)
Rose-Marie (1928)
Across to Singapore (1928)
Four Walls (1928)
Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
Dream of Love (1928)
The Duke Steps Out (1929)
Tide of Empire (1929)
Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Untamed (1929)
Great Day (1930)
Montana Moon (1930)
Our Blushing Brides (1930)
Paid (1930)
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Laughing Sinners (1931)
This Modern Age (1931)
Possessed (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Letty Lynton (1932)
Rain (1932)
Today We Live (1933)
Dancing Lady (1933)
Sadie McKee (1934)
Chained (1934)
Forsaking All Others (1934)
No More Ladies (1935)
I Live My Life (1935)
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
Love on the Run (1936)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Mannequin (1937)
The Shining Hour (1938)
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
The Women (1939)
Strange Cargo (1940)
Susan and God (1940)
A Woman’s Face (1941)
When Ladies Meet (1941)
They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
Reunion in France (1942)
Above Suspicion (1943)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Humoresque (1946)
Possessed (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Flamingo Road (1949)
The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Harriet Craig (1950)
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Torch Song (1953)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Female on the Beach (1955)
Queen Bee (1955)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
The Best of Everything (1959)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Caretakers (1963)
Della (1964)
Strait-Jacket (1964)
I Saw What You Did (1965)
Berserk! (1967)
Journey to Midnight (1968)
Trog (1970)
Journey to Murder (1971)