Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography

by Lawrence J Quirk and William Schoell

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Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression thirties, to her Oscar-winning performances in classic films such as Mildred Pierce. Crawford's legacy has become somewhat tarnished in the wake of her daughter Christina's memoir, Mommie Dearest, which turned her into a national joke. Today, many picture Crawford only as a wire hanger-wielding shrew rather than the personification of...Read more
  • ISBN10 081318049X
  • ISBN13 9780813180496
  • Publish Date 23 February 2021 (first published 30 September 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 344
  • Language English