During Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu.
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
I am just too much.
I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marylin Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Joan was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille award by John Wayne at the Golden Globes ceremony in 1970.
Joan's 1932 MGM film Letty Lynton was pulled from circulation shortly after release due to a plagarism lawsuit filed against MGM, and it has not been available to the public since. A dress that Joan wore in the movie was copied by Macy's and made available to the general public and sold over 500,000 units.
Joan placed her hand and foot prints as well as her signature in the cement of the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
Joan made an unsold pilot for her own series, "The Joan Crawford Show" in 1959.
Joan stood 5 feet, 5 inches tall.
Joan appeared five times as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line?
In 1981, the rock group Blue Oyster Cult recorded a song entitled "Joan Crawford."
Joan's autobiography was entitled My Way of Life. It was published in 1971.
Joan's first talking motion picture was Untamed released in 1929.
Joan's last movie appearance was in a 1970 British horror film called Trog.
One of Joan's least favorite film roles was as Sadie Thompson in 1932's Rain but her performance in that film is now considered by many critics to be one of her finest.
After Joan's death, her daughter Christina published a book entitled Mommie Dearest in which she alleged years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. However, in defense of Joan, her two youngest daughters, Cathy and Cynthia, deny to this day that many of the events described in Mommie Dearest ever took place.
Joan's first big role was in 1928's Our Dancing Daughters. She played a flapper.
Joan did a guest shot once on The Lucy Show and later referred to Lucille Ball as the most difficult actress she had ever worked with. Even more so than Bette Davis. Lucille, on the other hand, reported that Joan was so drunk in filming they had to repeat scenes multiple times, most memorably a scene where Joan was to sing and kept flubbing her lines; Lucille made her start over several times.
Joan cut her two oldest children, Christina and Christopher, out of her will completely, and left her two youngest the sum of $75,000 each from her $2,000,000 estate.
She dated Yul Brynner for a time in the early 1950's.
In 1963, Joan accepted the Best Actress Academy Award for Anne Bancroft who was absent from the ceremony.
Joan pulled out of the filming of Hush....Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) by claiming she had pneumonia and spent 4 weeks in a hospital; however, the true reason later given by her was because she couldn't stand to work with Bette Davis again, saying that Bette was working with direct Robert Aldrich in cutting her lines and screen time down to accomodate Bette having a larger role in the picture. Bette also provoked her by having a Coca Cola machine installed on the set, mocking Joan's then status as chairwoman of the Pepsi Cola board of directors. She was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.
Joan adopted four children: son Christopher and daughters Christina, Cynthia, and Cathy.
She was scheduled to appear in From Here to Eternity but her on the set demands caused the producers to replace her with Deborah Kerr.
Joan smoked like a chimney but she always refused to smoke a cigarette out of someone else's pack or one of hers that had been left open.
Joan co-starred with Greta Garbo in the 1932 classic Grand Hotel but the two actresses had no scenes together.
Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed he based the character of the Dragon Lady in his comic strip Terry and the Pirates on Joan.
A young Stephen Spielberg once directed Joan in an episode of Night Gallery. Though Joan initially resented being directed by a less-experienced director at the time, the two became friends and kept in touch until the end of Joan's life.
Joan never refused an autograph request from a fan. However, at the funeral of Alfred Steele, a fan approached her there and she turned away, only to have the enraged fan grab her and tear off her mourning veil.
Joan is buried in Ferncliff Cemetary in Hartsdale, New York next to her fifth husband.
Joan attended Stephens College, a posh girls school in Columbia MO, for one year.
Joan Crawford won one Best Actress Oscar, for 1945's Mildred Pierce, and was nominated for two others: 1947's Possessed and 1952's Sudden Fear.
Her last words:"Damn it...Don't you dare ask God to help me." She said these words to her maid who was praying at her bedside.
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