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Crawford wanted to play the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), but Bette Davis was the studio's first choice.
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Crawford and wanted
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.
Crawford initially wanted her new first name to be pronounced " Jo-anne ".
Crawford said one of the main reasons she signed with Warner Bros. was because she wanted to play the character " Mattie " in a proposed 1944 film version of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome ( 1911 ).
The railroad wanted to bring the track from Culloden to Knoxville, which was the most direct and economical route, but Crawford County rebelled.
After his election, Crawford told the curator in Cooperstown that he wanted his plaque to read, “ Wahoo Sam .” He noted: “ That ’ s my hometown, and I ’ m proud of it .”
He declared that he and the video game industry were working " at cross purposes ", with the industry focusing heavily on " depth ", when Crawford wanted more " breadth ": to explore new horizons rather than merely furthering what has already been explored.
Mrs. Crawford said she understood and wanted to proceed.
" However, Crawford wanted some assurances before he would take on a planned three years in the role.
( 1962 ), director Robert Aldrich wanted to reunite stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
It was at this time that Crawford decided he wanted to leave Dunfermline in order to sign for a club in England.
She also traveled to Crawford to grieve and support her fellow military parent, stating that she wanted to " put her arms around " Sheehan and offer her support.
Crawford and play
The Crawford rule, named after John R. Crawford, is designed to make match play more equitable for the player in the lead.
The Crawford rule is routinely used in tournament match play.
Until Christina was well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, to which producer Gloria Monty readily agreed.
The same year, Davis refused the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), a role for which Joan Crawford won an Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green ( 1945 ) based on a play by Emlyn Williams.
Givens starred in the 2009 stage play A Mother's Prayer, which also starred Johnny Gill, Shirley Murdock and Jermaine Crawford.
Fort Robinson is a state park and National Historic Landmark District several miles west of Crawford that includes two museums and a play theatre.
Crawford, having found Watt's phone number in the phone book, called him up and expressed his desire to come out to California and play with them.
Nevertheless, he had excelled in roles playing the toughest criminal of all, such as 1955's Big House, U. S. A., where Crawford had to convincingly play the role of a convict who leads a band of hardened criminals such as Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, and William Talman.
Recently back from Europe, and having temporarily stopped drinking, Crawford was signed to play the starring role as diamond industry security chief John King.
Based on a stage play performed at a Dark Shadows convention, Return to Collinwood is an audio drama written by Jamison Selby and Jim Pierson, and starring David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Lara Parker, Roger Davis, Marie Wallace, Christopher Pennock, Donna Wandrey, James Storm, and Terry Crawford.
Myra Hudson ( Crawford ) is a successful Broadway playwright who rejects Lester Blaine ( Palance ) as the lead in her new play.
team before being signed by Floyd Crawford to play for the OHA Jr. A.
Crawford was offered an opportunity in the spring of 1899 to play for the Chatham Reds of the Canadian League for $ 65 per month, plus board.
From Chatham, Crawford moved on to play for the Grand Rapids Prodigals in the Western League.
Although Crawford never got to play in another World Series, he remained one of the most feared hitters in baseball through 1915.
At the end of the 1917 season, Crawford was released and did not play again in Major League Baseball.
Vally would go on to play with people like Michael Franks, Bobby Caldwell, Boney James, Boz Scaggs, Arturo Sandoval and Randy Crawford.
Joining Vancouver in the midst of a rebuilding period for the franchise, Crawford slowly developed the Canucks into a successful regular season team, playing a fast-paced and offensively emphasized style of play.
Crawford suggested that Harold Clurman, then a play reader for the Guild, invite Odets to a meeting to discuss new theatre concepts they were developing with Lee Strasberg.
Crawford was offered scholarships to play basketball as a point guard at UCLA.
At about that time, Cameron Mackintosh asked Ball to play Raoul in the second casting of The Phantom of the Opera in London, which was necessary after Michael Crawford ( who played the Phantom ) and Steve Barton ( who played Raoul ) left the London show to appear in the Broadway staging in New York City.
In 1928, MGM Studios filmed Dream of Love, based on the Scribe and Legouvé play, Adrienne Lecouvreur, starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther.
Crawford and title
From 1945 to 1952, Crawford reigned as a top star and respected actress, appearing in such roles as Helen Wright in Humoresque ( 1946 ), Louise Howell Graham in Possessed ( 1947, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar for Best Actress ) and the title role in Daisy Kenyon ( also 1947 ).
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.
Crawford tried unsuccessfully to convince Warner Bros. to change the film's title to The Secret since she had already starred in a film by the same name earlier in her career.
When it was initially ( and erroneously ) reported that Nap Lajoie had won the batting title, Crawford was alleged to have been one of several Tigers who sent a telegram to Lajoie congratulating him on beating Cobb.
The title of Duke of Montrose ( named after Montrose, Angus ) was created twice in the peerage of Scotland, firstly in 1488 for David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford.
The title Earl of Crawford is one of the most ancient extant titles in Great Britain, having been created in the Peerage of Scotland for Sir David Lindsay in 1398.
Crawford Castle, along with the title of Earl of Crawford, was given by Robert II to David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford.
The title descended to the first Earl's descendants without much incident, until the death of David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford in 1542.
The Wicked Master was sentenced to death for his crime, and the eighth Earl conveyed his title to a cousin, also called David Lindsay, a descendant of the third Earl of Crawford, and excluded from the succession all of the Wicked Master's descendants.
At the death of Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford, the title was passed, despite senior heirs, to a cousin, John, who had already been created Earl of Lindsay.
By virtue of the title of Baron Wigan of Haigh Hall, the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres sat in the House of Lords until the passage of the Peerage Act 1963.
In January 1808, the ancient Earldom of Crawford, held by members of another branch of the Lindsay family, became dormant because no-one could prove a claim to the title.
Then the earldom of Lindsay passed to David Lindsay, while the earldom of Crawford became dormant because no-one could prove a claim to the title.
Subsequently, the Loudoun family married in to the Crawford family and in doing so, inherited the hereditary title, Sheriff of Ayr ..
Published in 1958, it was later adapted as a movie by the same title, starring Joan Crawford.
Baron Cochrane of Cults, of Crawford Priory in the County of Fife, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
He did defeat Frankie Crawford in a non title affair and defended his world Featherweight title against fellow former world Bantamweight champion, Vicente Saldivar of Mexico, in a " super fight " held at Salvador.
The first fire police officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were appointed in Meadville, Crawford County in 1896 and until the passage of title 35 in 1941, had no greater authority than that which could be provided by their respective fire company and municipality.
The Phantom of the Opera had its world première on 9 October 1986 at the theatre, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and featuring Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, who won an Olivier award for his performance in the title role.
Crawford later became famous for playing the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.
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