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- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJoan CrawfordJack CarsonZachary ScottA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Joan Crawford's most famous role, which won her an Academy Award - her first major film with Warner Bros. after leaving MGM.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJoan CrawfordZachary ScottSydney GreenstreetA corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.Joan plays a carnival dancer(!) who gets rich and into trouble with the mob. Great melodrama, one of her most entertaining.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsJoan CrawfordWalter HustonFred HowardA prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.Joan is a sassy prostitute in the tropics. Joan hated this film though it is now considered one of her best performances.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsJoan CrawfordVan HeflinRaymond MasseyAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.Joan plays a 'Fatal Attraction'-esque character obsessed with ex-lover Van Heflin.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJoan CrawfordMichael WildingGig YoungA tough but unhappy Broadway star re-evaluates her life when she crosses paths with a blind pianist.Joan is a Broadway star and a massive diva - in one notorious scene she performs a musical number in blackface(!). Terrible but hilarious movie.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.Joan is a stenographer amongst a cast of A-list characters (including Great Garbo) in a fancy Berlin hotel.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.Joan wears bright red lipstick and some fabulous dresses in the Wild West. A bizarre and subversive take on the Western genre because it's so ridiculously camp.
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsJoan CrawfordTy HardinDiana DorsA scheming circus owner finds her authority challenged when a vicious killer targets the show.Joan is a circus master, with great legs for a woman in her sixties. Highlights of this film include the dwarf with a speech impediment.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJoan CrawfordDiane BakerLeif EricksonAfter a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.William Castle-directed horror in which Joan murders people with an axe. Great campy fun.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJoan CrawfordJohn GarfieldOscar LevantA classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.Joan is a heavy-drinking high society woman who becomes involved with a violinist (James Garfield). One of her great performances of the 40's.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor BuonoA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.Joan is tormented by her crazy sister Bette Davis. Apparently whilst filming, Bette actually kicked Joan, so Joan retaliated by wearing weights under her dress for a scene in which Bette had to carry her.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJoan CrawfordMichael GoughBernard KayA sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.Joan's last movie was one of her worst, but also immensely entertaining. A clearly drunk Crawford plays an anthropologist in this somewhat low-budget movie about a troglodyte (a man in a Halloween mask) escaping from a cave.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJoan CrawfordJohn IrelandLeif EricksonTeenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.Crappy horror movie, Joan wears too much jewellery and was drunk whilst filming.
- DirectorRobert GistStarsPaul BurkeCharles BickfordJoan CrawfordA man trying to negotiate a property deal with a wealthy but reclusive widow becomes romantically involved with the woman's unhinged daughter.Amusing TV movie, also featuring Diane Baker.
- DirectorHall BartlettStarsRobert StackPolly BergenDiane McBainMedical 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.Joan only has about ten minutes of screen time in this boring two-hour film. However, the karate scene is fun.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsHope LangeStephen BoydSuzy ParkerAn expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.In an office that looks suspiciously like the one in 'Mad Men', Joan plays an embittered and sassy old editor.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsJoan CrawfordHeather SearsRossano BrazziEighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters--and her own sleazy ex-husband.Joan looks after a deaf-blind Irish girl.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJoan CrawfordCliff RobertsonVera MilesA lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.Great late Joan Crawford melodrama. Joan calls Vera Miles a slut.
- DirectorRanald MacDougallStarsJoan CrawfordBarry SullivanBetsy PalmerWhen a young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, she soon gets sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.In what looks almost like a parody of a Joan Crawford movie, Joan storms around a Southern mansion being horrible to everyone who crosses her path. Like a Tennessee Williams play, without any of the wit, intelligence, subtlety or subtext. A+ camp entertainment.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJoan CrawfordJeff ChandlerJan SterlingMoving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.Joan buys a house on a beach and has a fling with a younger man who tries to murder her. Campy fun.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsJoan CrawfordJack PalanceGloria GrahameAfter 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.Stunning film noir in which Joan plays a successful writer, one of her best films and performances.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsJoan CrawfordDennis MorganDavid BrianA tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart.Joan considered this her worst film. It's not, but it's not great either.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsJoan CrawfordRobert YoungFrank LovejoyCongresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for commencement, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at rekindling any sparks are thwarted by the arrival of another rival for her affections and the showing of her controversial film which could put her former beau's job in jeopardy.Joan plays a senator fighting for free speech. The idea of Joan as a fiery liberal is quite funny but overall a boring movie.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsJoan CrawfordWendell CoreyLucile WatsonHarriet 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.Joan is obsessed with having a clean house, and her servants live in terror of her. Campy and hilarious. I wonder if this film influenced 'Mommie Dearest' at all?
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsJoan CrawfordDavid BrianSteve CochranA 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.Rags-to-riches story of Joan involved with gangsters.