JOAN CRAWFORD

..JOIN MY GROUP!:I was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1904 in San Antonio, Texas. I was the product of a broken home before I was born in that my parents already separated before I was born. My Mother wasn't good at keeping husbands, and married three times. This effected me throughout life. I was fond of dance and had entered several dance contests. I wanted a career in show business because it was much more glamorous than the odd jobs I was working. One dance contest led me to be in a Chorus Line. Before long, I was dancing in big cities of the Mid West and along the Atlantic Coast. After almost two years of dancing, I decided to take a chance, and pack my bags and moved to Los Angeles. I felt that movies might offer me a chance at fame and glory and I was determined to succeed. Not long after moving to California, I got my first role as a show girl in "Pretty Ladies" in 1925. Three other movies quickly followed. Throughout 1927 and the first part of 1928 I was given menial roles. That ended with the role of Diana Medford in "Our Dancing Daughters". Even though I was successful in "Our Dancing Daughters", I was worried about how I would do in the transition from silent films to "talkies". Many stars of that era suddenly worried about their future in Hollywood. With silent pictures, it didn't matter what kind of voice you had, but with sound pictures it made a tremendous difference. While some stars saw their career fading, my strong voice enabled me to make the transition. My first "talkie" was "Untamed". As I entered into the 1930's, I became one of the top stars at MGM. Films such as "Grand Hotel", "Sadie McKee", "No More Ladies", and "Love on the Run" kept movie patrons and film executives happy. By the time the 1940's came around, I was beginning to notice that I was no longer getting the winning roles that she used to get. There were new stars and the public wanted to see them. I left MGM and went to rival Warner Brother Studios where I landed the role of a lifetime. In 1945, I landed the lead role in "Mildred Pierce", a movie about a housewife who becomes a successful business woman to try and raise her daughters after her husband leaves her. The movie landed me my first and only Best Actress Oscar. The following year I appeared in "Humoresque" with John Garfield. In 1947, I got the role of Louise Graham in Possessed. Again I was nominated for an Oscar, but lost it to Loretta Young for "The Farmer's Daughter." My career became less successful as the years went by and I wasn't getting the kinds of roles that I had come to depend on. Besides for My role in "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" In 1974, I saw a picture of myself and was horrified so I decided to retire. I devoted the rest of my life to Christian Science. I died May 10, 1977 in New York City. My adopted children inherited little from my two million dollar estate. Cindy and Cathy each inherited $77,500. Christina and Christopher did not inherit anything for "reasons best known to them". Especially Christina I knew she would continue to humiliate me even after my death. But these days I am beautiful as ever and living the grand life just as I was meant to.(GET READY, WHEN I SHOOT YOU BLOW....BANG..BANG!I have made about 100 films, I'm not saying they were all gems, but I worked very hard non stop to get my place in show biz! These are some of my best: Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) .... Bonnie 'Bon' Jordan, aka Mary Smith Possessed (1931) .... Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland Grand Hotel (1932) .... Flaemmchen Rain (1932) .... Sadie Thompson Sadie McKee (1934) .... Sadie McKee Brennan The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) .... Margaret O'Neal Eaton Mannequin (1937) .... Jessica 'Jessie' Cassidy Miller The Bride Wore Red (1937) .... Anni Pavlovitch The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) .... Mrs. Fay Cheyney A Woman's Face (1941) .... Anna Holm, aka Ingrid Paulson Mildred Pierce (1945) .... Mildred Pierce Beragon Above Suspicion (1943) .... Frances Myles Possessed (1947) .... Louise Howell Graham Humoresque (1946) .... Helen Wright Harriet Craig (1950) .... Harriet Craig The Damned Don't Cry (1950) .... Ethel Whitehead/Lorna Hansen Forbes Sudden Fear (1952) .... Myra Hudson Autumn Leaves (1956) .... Millicent Wetherby Queen Bee (1955) .... Eva Phillips The Story of Esther Costello (1957) .... Margaret Landi What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) .... Blanche Hudson Strait-Jacket (1964) .... Lucy Harbin Four times we've done this routine and four times you've loused it up!I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4