In a career spanning roughly half a century, Joan Crawford proved herself one of Hollywood's most durable leading ladies. But her reputation suffered a nearly mortal blow when her adopted daughter ...

Onscreen, Crawford’s face was an Art Deco masterpiece—jutting chromium cheekbones ... to telephone operators (“Hello, dear. This is Joan Crawford. What is the number for the Hollywood ...

Here are my five favorite Joan Crawford performances ... Nicholas Ray, 1954) Crawford is the ultimate genre buster in this B movie masterpiece. Her brusque dialogue and masculine disposition ...

In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood ...

Feud uses the making of this 1962 Gothic horror masterpiece in order to interrogate ... This 1952 noir starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, and my favorite B-movie bad girl, Gloria Grahame ...

Mildred Pierce is a masterpiece of modern film noir — or, if you prefer, TV noir — and it's anchored by a performance by Winslet that is unlikely to be beaten at next year's Emmys.

Two daughters of legendary actress Joan ... Crawford told interviewers last year that LaLonde was not a twin, just a girl who looks like Cynthia. She made the statements while promoting a new ...

Bogotá, Colombia (AP) – Colombian police are investigating the theft of a valuable first edition copy of Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The book ...

On Oct. 31, 1962, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford headlined What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the tale of two sisters sharing a dilapidated mansion. Famously, the two stars were none too keen on ...

Dunaway, now 83, famously portrayed silver-screen icon Joan Crawford in the 1981 cult classic “Mommie Dearest.” Directed by Frank Perry, “Mommie Dearest” is based on the tell-all memoir of ...

John Barrymore and Joan Crawford — in an ensemble piece directed by Edmund Goulding that was one of the biggest early sound hits and won the Oscar for best picture. To this day, it is the only ...

His funeral made international headlines and was held at Saint Malachy Catholic Church in New York City, which three years later, would be the scene of the wedding of Joan Crawford to Douglas ...