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Acting

Joan Crawford

Career: Active from 1925 to 2011, with a break from 1973 to 2010, busiest in 1928 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 86
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Unknown
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 83 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Joan Crawford Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Violence
2.8, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.7, average 4.8
Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 11
Strong Female Lead 8
Class Conflict 7
Character-Driven 7
Character Study 6
Social Commentary 6
Historical Setting 6
Melodrama 5
Romantic Drama 5
Moral Dilemmas 5
Nostalgic 4
Melodramatic 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

121

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Rebel Range

as Stella Faring

And One Was Loyal

as Ann Howard

2010s

1 title

as (archive footage)

2000s

1 title · average score 67

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

67

as Various Roles (archive footage)

1990s

1 title · average score 88

That's Entertainment! III

88

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

2 titles · average score 69

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

69

as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)

1970s

6 titles · average score 62

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

as (archive footage)

That's Entertainment!

84

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death

63

as Joan Fairchild

The Sixth Sense

67

TV show · as Joan Fairchild

Trog

24

as Dr. Brockton

1960s

16 titles · average score 62

Night Gallery

73

as Miss Menlo

Berserk!

48

as Monica Rivers

The Karate Killers

41

as Amanda True

I Saw What You Did

57

as Amy Nelson

Strait-Jacket

78

as Lucy Harbin

Della

63

as Della Chappell

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

87

TV show · as Amanda True

The Caretakers

47

as Lucretia Terry

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

83

as Blanche Hudson

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Stephanie White

The Lucy Show

47

TV show · as Joan Crawford

Route 66

48

TV show · as Morgan Harper

1950s

18 titles · average score 63

Woman on the Run

as Susan Conrad

The Story of Esther Costello

62

as Margaret Landi

Autumn Leaves

79

as Millicent Wetherby

Female on the Beach

56

as Lynn Markham

Queen Bee

62

as Eva Phillips

Johnny Guitar

83

as Vienna

Torch Song

52

as Jenny Stewart

Sudden Fear

84

as Myra Hudson Blaine

This Woman Is Dangerous

51

as Elizabeth Austin

Goodbye, My Fancy

52

as Agatha Reed

The Damned Don't Cry

59

as Ethel Whitehead

Harriet Craig

77

as Harriet Craig

1940s

14 titles · average score 64

Flamingo Road

77

as Lane Bellamy

Possessed

77

as Louise Howell

Humoresque

64

as Helen Wright

Daisy Kenyon

75

as Daisy Kenyon

Mildred Pierce

84

as Mildred Pierce

Above Suspicion

53

as Frances Myles

They All Kissed the Bride

54

as Margaret Johanna 'M.J.' Drew

Reunion in France

58

as Michele de la Becque

A Woman's Face

67

as Anna Holm

When Ladies Meet

59

as Mary 'Minnie' Howard

Strange Cargo

66

as Julie

Susan and God

44

as Susan Trexel

1930s

28 titles · average score 57

The Women

74

as Crystal Allen

The Shining Hour

57

as Olivia Riley Linden

The Bride Wore Red

65

as Anni Pavlovitch

The Gorgeous Hussy

47

as Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal

Forsaking All Others

58

as Mary Clay

Sadie McKee

69

as Sadie

Dancing Lady

74

as Janie Barlow

Grand Hotel

75

as Flämmchen

Rain

67

as Sadie Thompson

Possessed

69

as Marian Martin aka 'Mrs. Moreland'

Dance, Fools, Dance

58

as Bonnie Jordan

Our Blushing Brides

51

as Geraldine 'Gerry' March

1920s

32 titles · average score 61

Our Modern Maidens

53

as Billie Brown

Untamed

58

as Alice "Bingo" Dowling

The Law of the Range

as Betty Dallas

Our Dancing Daughters

63

as Diana 'Di' Medford

West Point

70

as Betty Channing

Four Walls

58

as Frieda

The Unknown

88

as Nanon Zanzi

Twelve Miles Out

61

as Jane

Spring Fever

56

as Allie Monte

The Boob

58

as Jane

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

60

as Betty Burton

Sally, Irene and Mary

57

as Irene O'Dare