For having sided with her father, Cosima von Bülow was disinherited by her maternal grandmother, Annie Laurie ( Crawford ) Aitken.

After Joan Crawford died in 1977, Christina and her brother Christopher learned that they had been disinherited from their mother's $ 2M estate in her will " for reasons which are well-known to them ".

If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.

After Davis left Fort Crawford in 1833, he did not see Sarah for more than two years.

When a backers ' audition failed to raise any money for West Side Story late in the spring of 1957, only two months before the show was to begin rehearsals, producer Cheryl Crawford pulled out of the project.

After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The two were allegedly married in 1924 and lived together for several months, although this supposed marriage was never mentioned in later life by Crawford.

For the next two years, Crawford appeared in increasingly important films.

A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters, including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans ( many of whom were women ) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl.

Crawford, as the compulsive homemaker and with a powerful need to love and be loved, adopted two more children in 1947, identical twins whom she named Cindy and Cathy.

Crawford was letter-perfect the day of the show and received two standing ovations from the studio audience.

Crawford died two days later at her New York apartment from a heart attack, while also ill with pancreatic cancer.

In her will, which was signed October 28, 1976, Crawford bequeathed to her two youngest children, Cindy and Cathy, $ 77, 500 each from her $ 2, 000, 000 estate.

Davis and Joan Crawford played two aging sisters, former actresses forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion.

Brown County is one of Wisconsin's two original counties along with Crawford County and originally spanned the entire eastern half of the state when formed by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818.

McDaniel had befriended several of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland and Clark Gable, with the last two of whom she would star in Gone with the Wind.

The Van Buren School District is the largest school district in Crawford County, consisting of six elementary schools ( grades K-4 ), two middle schools ( grades 5-6 ), two junior highs ( grades 7-9 ) and one high school ( grades 10-12 ).

Fort Robinson is a state park and National Historic Landmark District several miles west of Crawford that includes two museums and a play theatre.

There were two gristmills in Warrensville: one, owned by J. K. Crawford, was run by water ; the other, owned by C. Aderhold, had steam and water both.

Watt eventually agreed and the two met with Crawford " auditioning " for Watt by playing him The Who's, " I'm One " as well as a few Minutemen songs.

Crawford married three times ; he had two sons ( Kelly and Kim ) from his marriage to actress Kay Griffith.

( These last two were founding members, along with Crawford and original male vocalist Ty Cobb.

Abernathy died at Emory Crawford Long Memorial Hospital, from two blood clots that traveled to his heart and lungs, five weeks after his 64th birthday on the morning of April 17, 1990.

Patrolmen J. W. Slate and A. L. Crawford Jr. said they arrested Ronald M. Thomas, of 1671 Nakoma St., NW, after he assaulted the officers.

The Crawford rule, named after John R. Crawford, is designed to make match play more equitable for the player in the lead.

To incarnate the role ’ s “ intense, tragic face ”, Fellini ’ s first choice had been Humphrey Bogart but after learning of the actor ’ s lung cancer, chose Crawford after seeing his face on the theatrical poster of All the King ’ s Men ( 1949 ).

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

Film actress Joan Crawford, after marrying then Pepsi-Cola President Alfred N. Steele became a spokesperson for Pepsi, appearing in commercials, television specials and televised beauty pageants on behalf of the company.

The game went to a shootout with a 1 – 1 tie after overtime, but Gretzky was controversially not selected by coach Marc Crawford as one of the five shooters.

Millets and their wild ancestors, such as barnyard grass and panic grass, were also cultivated in Japan during the Jōmon period some time after 4000 BC ( Crawford 1983, 1992 ).

She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer ; after the release of the British horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen.

Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life and became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.

Crawford attended Stephens for only four months before withdrawing after she realized she was not prepared for college.

Tone and Crawford appeared together in Today We Live ( 1933 ) and were immediately drawn to each other, although Crawford was hesitant about entering into another romance so soon after her split from Fairbanks.

In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published Mommie Dearest, which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher.

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ) was Robert Aldrich's follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ?, in which he planned to reunite Davis and Crawford, but when Crawford withdrew allegedly due to illness soon after filming began, she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.

Bonds were sold against the company to fund the new developments, but after the Internet bubble burst in 2000 and the resultant reduction in customer demand for such products, Curtis Crawford was replaced by James ( Jim ) Thorburn who reorganized the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 and refocused it back to the 8 and 16 bit microcontroller market.

On returning home, Hasely " Raj Paul " Crawford had both a jet and a stadium named after him. After all he won his country's first gold medal.

Crawford and Brian J. Showers's Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: A Concise Bibliography ( 2011 ) is a supplement to Crawford's out-of-print 1995 bibliography.

Thomas Crawford ( sculptor ) | Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom

The royal family were appalled at what they saw as Crawford's invasion of their privacy and breach of trust, as a result of which Crawford was ostracised from royal circles.

Joan Crawford and Gladys George were offered roles, but George lost her role when the director decided he wanted to cast the female roles against type while Crawford's demands to be filmed by her own cameraman led to the studio taking a chance on Deborah Kerr, also playing against type.

Dunaway would later express regret for her portrayal of Crawford in her autobiography, Looking for Gatsby, believing that her career had been damaged by the portrayal and at the hands of Crawford's friends.

Crawford also lobbied for a state normal school, but the school ( now Chadron State College ) was established in nearby Chadron due to Crawford's proximity to Fort Robinson.

Crawford's primary library is the Crawford Public Library.

For much of the period from 1955 until 1965 most of Crawford's television roles involved ZIV Television, who was among the relative handful of producers willing to accept the occasional challenges inherent in working with the hard-living Crawford.

During the series filming, Crawford's weight and penchant for heavy drinking contributed to several injuries suffered on the set, and it became particularly difficult for Crawford to do certain scenes, such as when he had to enter and exit a CHP police helicopter.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first husband, described the book by stating, " The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in Mommie Dearest is not the Joan Crawford I knew back then.

Crawford's Mildred Pierce co-star, actress Eve Arden, sided with Christina about Crawford's parenting abilities, saying that Crawford suffered from bipolar disorder ; a good woman in many ways but, as an alcoholic with a violent temper, simply unfit to be a mother.

Later biographers have reported that Christina began writing her book before Crawford's death, and have suggested that Joan's knowledge of its contents may have been a factor in Joan Crawford cutting her daughter from her will.

ZIV held up Crawford's ten per cent share of the show's gross ( some 2 million dollars ) until Crawford agreed to sign for a new ZIV pilot and TV show, King of Diamonds.

Despite Vancouver's regular season success, they only managed to win one playoff series during Crawford's tenure and, compounded by the Canucks ' failure to make the postseason in 2005 – 06, Crawford was let go by management on April 25, 2006, and replaced by Alain Vigneault.

After consideration by the Tennessee Court of Appeals and review by the Tennessee Supreme Court Miss Crawford's claim was dismissed and was ultimately dismissed by Judge Neil Thomas pursuant to the order of the Tennessee Court of Appeals and the order of the Tennessee Supreme Court denying any further appeal on behalf of Crawford.

The next year, Crawford challenged congressman Thomas E. Burnside to a duel over a series of accusations that Burnside published about Crawford's father.

Crawford himself was fondest of Khaled: A Tale of Arabia ( 1891 ), a story of a genie ( genius is Crawford's word ) who becomes human, which was reprinted ( 1971 ) in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series of the early 1970s.

Villa Crawford was donated many years ago by Crawford's daughters Lady Eleanor Rocca-Crawford and Mother Clare Marion-Crawford to the Salesian Sisters, who operate it today as a high school for girls.

Brinkley told the sheriff that it was all Crawford's fault, and gave investigators enough information that they were able to nab Crawford in Pocatello.

While Steinman, still ebullient over Crawford's casting, defended the original figure by saying Crawford " would be worth every cent we can pay him ", a more sensible Crawford claimed that initial reports of a $ 180, 000 salary were " ridiculous " and " a piece of fantasy journalism from my home country ," adding that " anyone who knows how many people you can fit in a theater knows that you don't do Broadway to make money ".