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In Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography, the author wrote that Crawford appealed to many gay men because they sympathized with her struggle for success in both the entertainment industry and her personal life.
Joan Crawford was born a Southern belle in San Antonio, Texas, but her life was nothing like the glamorous romp we know it as today. The star’s real birth name was the far more modest "Lucille Fay LeSueur," and her parents Thomas and Anna struggled to make ends meet for their young family.
Though she portrayed stories of romantic fulfillment on the silver screen, Joan Crawford proved less lucky navigating affairs of the heart off-camera, walking down the aisle an astonishing four times throughout her tumultuous personal life.
Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers.
Jun 18, 2024 · Joan Crawford, American motion-picture actress who made her initial impact as a vivacious Jazz Age flapper but later matured into a star of psychological melodramas. She also developed a glamorous screen image. Her best-known films included Susan and God, Mildred Pierce, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Jul 24, 2018 · MGM had hired plain Lucille LeSueur, the working-class daughter of a single mother from San Antonio, Texas, and transformed her into the glamorous Joan Crawford — even inviting the public to ...
May 26, 2017 · It’s the story of Joan Crawford’s life and career, from 1939 to the time of her death, in 1977, seen from the perspective of her daughter Christina, whose memoir Frank Perry adapted, with...
May 14, 2016 · This anecdote of actresses at very different points in their careers illustrates Crawford’s own professionalism and the short shelf-life of female stars, even those as beloved and well-paid as Crawford.
On March 23, 1904, in San Antonio, Texas, Anna Bell Johnson LeSueur gave birth to a little girl, whom she and her husband, Thomas, named Lucille Fay. Lucille was the couple’s third child; another daughter, Daisy, had died in infancy, and Lucille’s brother, Hal, had been born the previous year.
Apr 6, 2013 · She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression...
