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Joan Crawford: Always the Star

★ 7.5/10 · 2 votes 1996 0h 50m Released

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Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 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.

Cast

Joan Crawford Self (archive footage) Diane Baker Self Ann Blyth Self (archive footage) Ben Cooper Self Bette Davis Self (archive footage) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Self (archive footage)