The former flapper, thought to be 42 and already two ... manufacturing wasn’t even a twinkle in tinsel town’s eye. Joan Crawford famously accepted her award for “Mildred Pierce” in bed ...

This is the original Variety obituary. May 10, 1977: Joan Crawford, 69, who rose from dancing flapper roles in 1920s silent films to become one of the most popular of Hollywood’s female stars ...

Secrets from the silver screen legend. Not that we should gloss over the later years -- but really, I feel that on her birthday, we should remember Crawford at her best. And though early Crawford ...

Joan Crawford is a film legend ... But her big break came as a flirtatious flapper. On Dec. 9, 1928, Crawford bounced across the screen at the Capitol Theatre in Our Dancing Daughters, “a ...

And with the increasing popularity of movies, women could mimic the stars—like Joan Crawford, Mae Murray and Clara Bow, an American actress who epitomized the flapper’s spitfire attitude and ...

Maltin's take: “Joan Crawford started in silent films and continually reinvented her screen image, starting out as a flapper and then becoming a shop girl during the Depression years.

“Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, per biographer Bob Thomas. “Dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eye ...

Scott Fitzgerald, the 20s flapper spirit; she was the quintessential ... Here are my five favorite Joan Crawford performances. 4. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1962 ...

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