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Joan Crawford ( March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977 ), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre.
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At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.
More successful were A Woman's Face ( 1941 ) with Joan Crawford and Gaslight ( 1944 ) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
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.
In 1933 Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and his first film was there Today We Live in 1933, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper.
Blues singers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Gladys Bentley sang about affairs with women to visitors such as Tallulah Bankhead, Beatrice Lillie, and the soon-to-be-named Joan Crawford.
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 Unknown ( 1927 ), featuring Chaney as an armless knife thrower and Joan Crawford as his scantily clad carnival girl obsession, was originally titled Alonzo the Armless and could be considered a precursor to Freaks in that it concerns a love triangle involving a circus freak, a beauty, and a strongman.
* Rain ( 1932 ), the first sound version of the short story " Miss Thompson " ( retitled as " Rain "), with Joan Crawford and Walter Huston.
The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.
His imitations were imitated by other female impersonators, and his roles included Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford, which became the drag queen canon.
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.
At the time of her death, Lombard had been scheduled to star in the film " They All Kissed the Bride "; when production started, her role was given to Joan Crawford.
" Billed as an " All-Star Musical Extravaganza ," the film includes performances by once and future stars, including Joan Crawford singing and dancing on stage.
The film was followed by Big City with Luise Rainer and Mannequin with Joan Crawford, the latter of which took good billings at the box office.
Tracy frequently engaged in extramarital affairs, including with co-stars Joan Crawford in 1937, and Ingrid Bergman in 1941.
Finally, in 1926, at the age of 20, she was cast in the lead role in The Johnstown Flood ( 1926 ), the same year she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars ( with Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río and others ).
Joan and March
Joan of England, ( 22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238 ), was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême.
On March 23, 1430, Joan of Arc dictated a letter that threatened to lead a crusading army against the Hussites unless they returned to the Catholic faith, but her capture by English and Burgundian troops two months later would keep her from carrying out this threat.
File: Joan Baez Bob Dylan. jpg | Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights " March on Washington ", August 28, 1963
In 2009 Tracy Chevalier wrote a historical novel entitled, Remarkable Creatures, in which Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were the main characters, and another historical novel about Anning, Curiosity by Joan Thomas, was published in March 2010.
Pinkerton married Joan Carfrae ( a singer ) in Glasgow on 13 March 1842 secretly before moving to America.
* Joan of Arc's second letter to Reims — letter dictated by Joan of Arc to the city of Reims on March 16, 1430, translated by Allen Williamson.
The Synchronicity Tour began in Chicago, Illinois in July 1983 at the original Comiskey Park, and ended in Melbourne, Australia in March 1984 at the Melbourne Showgrounds ( the final concert featured Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The Police topping the bill ).
Boyle was born at Canterbury 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle ( d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent ), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan ( born 15 October 1529 at Canterbury-died 20 March 1586 ), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564.
His daughter Elizabeth de Badlesmere ( 1313 – 8 June 1356 ), was married firstly ( 27 June 1316 ) to Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1302 – 17 December 1331 ), eldest son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville.
Escorted by Baudricourt, Joan arrived in Chinon on March 6, 1429, and met with the skeptical La Trémoille.
* March 16-The Mask and Wig Club Double Male Quartet, with orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret record " Joan of Arkansas ," the first issued ( cf February 26 entry above ) electrical recording by the Victor Talking Machine, with catalog number 19626-A ; the B-side, from the same Mask and Wig Club production, was recorded March 20, 1925 by the International Novelty Orchestra, also directed by Shilkret.
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