Born of English, French Huguenot, Swedish, and Irish ancestry, in San Antonio, Texas, she began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled, and later outlasted, that of MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hard-working young women who find romance and success. These characters and stories were well received by Depression-era audiences, and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars, and one of the highest-paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money, and, by the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison". However, her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952). Crawford continued to act in film and television throughout the 1950s and 1960s; she achieved box office success with the highly successful horror film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962), in which she starred alongside Bette Davis, her long-time rival.
- "Joan was a petite, freckle-faced redhead." https://www.biography.com/news/joan-crawford-biography-facts
- "She was only five feet three, she had freckles, a mop of reddish hair, and broad, square shoulders, and she was a little heavy (a hundred and forty pounds) for her size." https://www.newyorker.com/…/2011/01/03/escape-artist-david-…
- "As she blossomed into a beautiful teenager, with flame-red hair, expressive blue eyes and shapely legs, she soon attracted a different kind of attention." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Joan-Crawford-used-body-contr…
- "Born Lucille LeSueur, the future star’s natural complexion featured freckles and red hair." https://www.crfashionbook.com/…/joan-crawford-makeup-iconi…/
- "Beyond being, well, bitter, Peychaud’s red hue is a tribute to her naturally red hair..." https://www.thrillist.com/…/the-bittersweet-joan-celebrates…
- "Years later, Fitzgerald would cross paths with another red-headed woman, Joan Crawford..." https://books.google.it/books…
- "She was only five feet three, she had freckles, a mop of reddish hair, and broad, square shoulders, and she was a little heavy (a hundred and forty pounds) for her size." https://www.newyorker.com/…/2011/01/03/escape-artist-david-…
- "As she blossomed into a beautiful teenager, with flame-red hair, expressive blue eyes and shapely legs, she soon attracted a different kind of attention." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Joan-Crawford-used-body-contr…
- "Born Lucille LeSueur, the future star’s natural complexion featured freckles and red hair." https://www.crfashionbook.com/…/joan-crawford-makeup-iconi…/
- "Beyond being, well, bitter, Peychaud’s red hue is a tribute to her naturally red hair..." https://www.thrillist.com/…/the-bittersweet-joan-celebrates…
- "Years later, Fitzgerald would cross paths with another red-headed woman, Joan Crawford..." https://books.google.it/books…
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