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The Women
(1939)
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George Cukor
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Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard
Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) finds her marriage in ...
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Mildred Pierce
(1945)
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directed by
Michael Curtiz
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Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth
Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerned a tawdry waitress who slept her way to financial security so as to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, only to be rewarded by having her true love stolen away by that same daughter. Ranald ...
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)
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directed by
Robert Aldrich
featuring
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee, Maide Norman
As a child, "Baby Jane" Hudson was the toast of vaudeville. As an adult, however, Baby Jane was overshadowed by her more talented sister, Blanche, who became a top movie star. Then, one night in the early '30s, came the accident, which crippled Blanche for life and which was blamed on a drunken, jealous Jane. Flash-forward to 1962: Jane (Bette ...
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Susan and God
(1940)
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directed by
George Cukor
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Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth
Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars as Susan, whose unquestioning devotion to various religious organizations causes a great deal of strain between herself and her family. When Susan embraces a "New Thought" theological movement, she decides to apply the ...
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Grand Hotel
(1932)
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directed by
Edmund Goulding
featuring
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are ...
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Dancing Lady
(1933)
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directed by
Robert Z. Leonard
featuring
Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire
Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an impoverished dancer reduced to working in a seedy Manhattan burlesque house. While on a slumming party with his society friend, wealthy young Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) spots Janie in the burleycue chorus ...
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Johnny Guitar
(1954)
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directed by
Nicholas Ray
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Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Cooper, Royal Dano, Paul Fix
One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title character, played by Sterling Hayden, is a guitar-strumming drifter who was once the lover of Arizona saloon-owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Though her establishment doesn't make a dime, Vienna doesn't ...
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Sadie McKee
(1934)
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directed by
Clarence Brown
featuring
Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston
MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield unexpected delights. It all begins when Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford) is brought to big bad old New York by glib vaudevillian Tommy (Gene Raymond), only to be unceremoniously dumped in favor of actress Dolly (Esther Ralston). Cast ...
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Sudden Fear
(1952)
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directed by
David Miller
featuring
Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Joan Crawford stars as wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright who meets Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) while casting her new play in New York. They meet again on the train ride back, fall in love and marry. Unknown to Myra, Lester is seeing mistress Irene Neves (Gloria Grahame), whom he still loves and has married only ...
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
(1937)
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directed by
Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, Richard Boleslawski
featuring
Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph
Based on a popular drawing-room drama by Frederick Lonsdale, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney stars Joan Crawford as a jewel thief who poses as an aristocrat. It is Crawford's intention to pilfer a valuable pearl necklace while attending a society party in the company of partner-in-crime William Powell. Here she attracts the attention of Robert Montgomery ...
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Strange Cargo
(1940)
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directed by
Frank Borzage
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Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas
"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea penal colony, they are picked up by a sloop commandeered by another escapee named Verne (Gable) and his trollop girl friend Julie (Joan Crawford). Among the fugitives is Cambreau ...
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Laughing Sinners
(1931)
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directed by
Harry Beaumont
featuring
Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee
The Kenyon Nicholson play Torch Song was the source for the Joan Crawford vehicle Laughing Sinners. Crawford plays nightclub entertainer Ivy Stevens, who loses her zest for living when she's thrown over by her salesman sweetheart Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton). At her lowest ebb, Ivy is befriended by Salvation Army captain Carl Loomis (yes, that's ...
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Above Suspicion
(1943)
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directed by
Richard Thorpe
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Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen
If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly married to Joan Crawford, MacMurray goes on a honeymoon in prewar Germany. Actually it's more business than pleasure: they are secret agents for the British, attempting to smuggle back information about a new superweapon being ...
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Humoresque
(1946)
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directed by
Jean Negulesco
featuring
Joan Crawford, John Abbott, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, Paul Cavanagh, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler, Tommy Cook
Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends and family in his rise to fame. Screenwriters Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold refashioned this timeworn material into a first-class, big-budget soap opera, completely dominated by the high-octane talents of Joan Crawford ...
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Possessed
(1947)
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directed by
Curtis Bernhardt
featuring
Griff Barnett, Joan Crawford, Monte Blue, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Nana Bryant, Stanley Ridges
We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning "David....David." She goes to pieces in public and is rushed to the mental ward, where a team of psychiatrists try to find out who she is and where she's been. Who she is is a practical nurse, hired by Raymond Massey to ...
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Trog
(1970)
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directed by
Freddie Francis
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Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden, David Griffin
Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama. The creature is found in a cave and brought to her laboratory to undergo tests for her research. The hairy beast with the face of a monkey loves classical music and hates rock & roll. When one of the slack-jawed yokels opens ...
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Queen Bee
(1955)
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directed by
Ranald MacDougall
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Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow
Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in this dark drama. On first meeting, Eva Phillips (portrayed with delicious viciousness by Joan Crawford) is the epitome of Southern graciousness and charm. She and her husband, a textile magnate live together in a ...
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Strait-Jacket
(1964)
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directed by
William Castle
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Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson
In this chilling blood-tale in "Psycho" style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum for 20 years before reuniting with the daughter (Diane Baker). From this point, the axe murders ...
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Rain
(1932)
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directed by
Lewis Milestone
featuring
Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Walter Catlett
The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's story Miss Sadie Thompson. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is a sassy streetwalker who lands in Pago Pago in the South Pacific after an epidemic grounds the ship on which she's booked passage. Sadie's shapely legs, free ...
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Reunion in France
(1942)
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directed by
Jules Dassin
featuring
Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert Basserman
Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director Jules Dassin -- who was promptly demoted back to the MGM "B" department when the picture tanked at the box office. Joan Crawford stars as Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, who comes to believe that her fiancé, wealthy ...
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I Saw What You Did
(1965)
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directed by
William Castle
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Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Sarah Lane, Andi Garrett
With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film was shown equipped with seat belts so frightened audience members wouldn't flee the theater in a ...
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The Damned Don't Cry
(1950)
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directed by
Vincent Sherman
featuring
Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders
A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime melodrama. The story opens as she cowers insider her old home, fearing the inevitable arrival of the murderous gangsters pursuing her. Her tragic tale unfolds via flashback. It all began when she became frustrated by her ...
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Flamingo Road
(1949)
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directed by
Michael Curtiz
featuring
Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gertrude Michael, Gladys George
The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but there's plenty to please the eye and ear. Sideshow kootch-dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford), stranded in a backwater town, gets a job as a waitress. Lane begins falling in love with Fielding Carlisle (Zachary ...
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Chained
(1934)
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directed by
Clarence Brown
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Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor
Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained. Crawford plays Diane Lovering, the mistress of prominent Manhattan businessman Richard Field (Otto Kruger). Though she really isn't in love with him, she feels obligated to marry him when he divorces his wife (Margaret Gateson) ...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
(1936)
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directed by
Clarence Brown
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Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas
The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century politician John Eaton, who served as cabinet minister during the Andrew Jackson presidency. Snubbed by the Washington elite because of her questionable background as a tavernkeeper's daughter, "Pothouse Peg" is championed ...
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