Following Possessed, Crawford starred opposite Gable in the hit Dancing Lady ( 1933 ), in which she received top billing.

As potential cinemagoers had been associating Cain with hard-boiled crime fiction only, this trick — exploited in advertisements and trailers — in combination with the casting of then Hollywood star Joan Crawford in the title role made sure that the film was going to be a box office hit even before it was released.

With Joe Sample, Jennings wrote " Street Life " ( a world-wide hit for the Crusaders with singer Randy Crawford ) and several songs for various albums by the Crusaders for guest vocalists, including Joe Cocker (" I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today "), Bill Withers (" Soul Shadows "), and Nancy Wilson (" The Way It Goes ").

His first career Major League hit occurred in the bottom of the 11th inning against the Boston Red Sox on October 1, a single to right field off of Steve Crawford.

This Shapiro / Crawford production was a minor hit ( R & B # 36 / Pop # 102 ), but not a substantial enough commercial success to keep the duo signed to the label.

He hit a grand slam in his first at bat in his first major league game, June 25,, being the second of six players in major league history to do it ( joining Bill Duggleby,, Jeremy Hermida,, Kevin Kouzmanoff,, Daniel Nava,, and Brandon Crawford, 2011.

Baseball legend, Ed Barrow, who managed Crawford in his first two years with Detroit, and went on to convert Babe Ruth to an outfielder as general manager of the Yankees, once said that “ there never was a better hitter ” than Crawford .” One of his contemporaries, Fielder Jones, said of Crawford: “ None of them can hit quite as hard as Crawford.

Crawford hit. 307 in 31 games with the Reds in 1899.

Crawford hit 12 inside-the-park home runs in 1901 – a major league record that has never been equaled.

In his new limited role, Crawford hit. 173 in 104 at bats.

Also named in the lawsuit were numerous individuals within the Canucks organization, including Brad May ( Bertuzzi's teammate at the time who was quoted as saying that there would " definitely be a price on Moore's head " after Moore's hit on Näslund ), Brian Burke, Marc Crawford, as well as the Canucks organization as a whole and the Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment company that owned the team.

Bertuzzi claimed that the Crawford told players during the second intermission of the March 8 game that Moore needed to " pay the price " for his earlier hit against Naslund.

Crawford also hit a league-leading 19 triples.

In the second half of the season, Crawford had a sore right wrist which had been bothering him for some time, and he did not hit a home run for a period of 42 days.

On April 11, 2008, Crawford accumulated his 1000th hit, making him only the eighth player to hit 1000 and steal 250 bases before turning 27.

On August 17, 2010, Crawford hit the 100th triple of his career, joining Ty Cobb as the only major league players to hit 100 triples and steal 400 bases before the age of 30.

Accomplishments in Rollins ' 2004 season included his third " quadruple-double " ( four statistical categories — home runs, stolen bases, doubles, and triples — in double figures in a single season ), making him one of three players to accomplish this feat during the season, along with Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF Carl Crawford and Detroit Tigers SS Carlos Guillén ; his three ten-game hitting streaks throughout the summer and fall months ; and his first career grand slam, hit in the final game of the season against Florida.

The play became a hit, and its English-language adaptation enjoyed a huge success in New York in the early 1930s and was made in to the blockbuster 1932 Academy Award-winning film, Grand Hotel, starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

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

To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.

It is possible for a Crawford game never to occur in a match.

From 1977-1978, Jones wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Crawford ( also known as Crawford & Morgan ) for the Chicago Tribune-NY News Syndicate.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

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

During this time, Berry co-wrote and / or arranged and produced songs for artists outside of Jan and Dean, including The Angels (" I Adore Him ", Top 30 ), the Gents, the Matadors ( Sinners ), Judy & Jill, Pixie ( unreleased ), Jill Gibson, Shelley Fabares, Deane Hawley, The Rip Chords (" Three Window Coupe ", Top 30 ), and Johnny Crawford, among others.

In the presidential election of 1824, Van Buren supported William H. Crawford and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president, but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as President.

Van Buren had originally hoped to block Adams ' victory by denying him the state of New York ( the state was divided between Van Buren supporters who would vote for William H. Crawford and Adams men ).

He became one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and his tour of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support for Jackson from Crawford.

* 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

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 song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.

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.

* The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English Language by John Martin Crawford.

* March 30 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation ( Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation using ether ).

* December 27 – Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time ( Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia ).

Monroe defeated Crawford for the nomination by a vote of 65 to 54.

Crawford donated all of her salary for the film to the Red Cross, which had helped extensively in the recovery of bodies from the plane crash.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

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.

Slate said he and Crawford received cuts and scratches and their uniforms were badly torn.

* 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer ( d. 2009 )

Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

A 1938 US radio production starred Joan Crawford as Nora and Basil Rathbone as Torvald.

After the Crawford game, normal use of the doubling cube resumes.

The Crawford rule is routinely used in tournament match play.

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.

* Crawford, F. H.

At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.