
March 23, 1906 · 120 years old
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1906 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by…

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

After a 20-year asylum stay for a double ax murder, suspicion arises about Lucy Harbin's behavior as she returns to her daughter Carol, who is engaged to marry Michael Fields. Soon, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her...

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.

Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.

A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.

A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.

When a young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, she soon gets sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.

A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).

An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.

Harriet Craig enjoys married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not even trust her husband Walter and always checks up on him.

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.

A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.

A tough but unhappy Broadway star re-evaluates her life when she crosses paths with a blind pianist.

A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.

After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.

A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.

Medical drama about mentally-ill patients and their professional caregivers, as well as the new group-therapy sessions aiming to replace the traditional physical restraint and electroshock treatments.

Wild-raised heiress Bingo inherits oil company after father's death. During NY-bound civilizing mission, she loves Andy, who chooses another due to her wealth. After she shoots him, he accepts marriage.

Idealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry. Peter discovers Harry is a bootlegger and turns him over to he prohibition agents, including Jane (Joan Crawford). Amy, at last, is impressed with Peter.

U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin battle T.H.R.U.S.H. spies to seize Dr. True's secret chemical formula used in extracting gold from sea water.

A vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her 'Montana', and eventually clash over their different lifestyles, to the point of almost ending their marri...

A socialite begins a shipboard romance with a wealthy man, but is blackmailed by a former lover.