TV Guide: Joan Crawford

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Video: Hollywood Collection: Joan Crawford ALWAYS THE STAR

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence. She was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1904 (or 1906) in San Antonio, Texas. Her father soon disappeared and she took the name of her stepfather, calling herself Billie Cassin. When Cassin, too, vanished, Billie did menial work to help her mother and brother survive. Ill-paid sales jobs bought dancing lessons and the clothes she needed to enter amateur contests. Then came a night-club contract as chorus girl - $25-a-week and eight routines a nig

Video: Hollywood Collection: Joan Crawford ALWAYS THE STAR

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. In another room a ravishing young secretary (Joan Crawford) succumbs to the advances of an arrogant industrialist (Wallace Beery). In yet another, a fatally ill office clerk (Lionel Barrymore) spends his life savings in a desperate effort to derive some pleasure from this bleak and brief existence. Downstairs at the bar, a disfigured doctor (Lewis Stone) dispenses wry commentary as people come and go. This precedent-setting ensemble piece of frothy, bubbly, tear-jerking super soap cemented the A-list status of its director, Edmund Goulding. It's an oft-imitated, never duplicated spectacle; the old Hollywood star system lighting up the sky with all the wattage at its disposal.

Video: I Saw What You Did

Syfy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Bored teenagers crank-call the wrong person and become the target of his murderous rage. Dial J for Joan Crawford.

Video: Biography: Clark Gable - The Road to Fame

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Clark Gable became a Hollywood leading man despite lesser known earlier movies such as cowboy western, The Painted Desert. It was the film A Free Soul and films with Joan Crawford that made him a star. From the "Biography: Clark Gable - The Road to F

Video: Trog -- (Movie Clip)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) tames the beast with a tranquilizer gun as the crowd panics in Trog (1970).

Video: The Unknown - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Lon Chaney is an armless knife thrower, Joan Crawford his target in this clip from the horror movie The Unknown (1927).

Video: Trog -- (Opening Credits)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Opening credits from Trog (1970) starring Joan Crawford.

Video: Harriet Craig -- (Opening Credits)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Opening credits from Vincent Sherman's Harriet Craig (1950), starring Joan Crawford.

Video: Trog - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Joan Crawford's 45-year career as a movie star came to an end with Trog (1970), about a resurrected caveman.

Video: Possessed -- (Movie Clip)