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

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

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.

* West Point ( 1928 film ), a silent film starring Joan Crawford and William Haines

The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.

* Joan Crawford

* Joan Crawford

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.

*" Got a Feeling for You " sung by Joan Crawford

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 Crawford ( March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977 ), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre.

Joan Crawford in 1928

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth's consort, Joan, Lady of Wales, used that title in the 1230s ; Isabella de Braose and Elizabeth Ferrers were likewise married to princes of Wales, but it is not known if they assumed a title in light of their husbands ' status.

Singer-activist Joan Baez, whose political leanings couldn't be more different from those expressed in Haggard's above-referenced songs, nonetheless covered " Sing Me Back Home " and " Mama Tried " in 1969.

Some surrealists in particular Joan Miró, who called for the " murder of painting " ( In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to " kill ", " murder ", or " rape " them in favor of more contemporary means of expression ).

After Bremer's arrest, Joan Pemrich expressed surprise at Bremer's actions, because she said he was not violent and never mentioned or talked about Wallace or politics during their time together.

Schrader has expressed dissatisfaction with Light of Day, particularly its plain visual style: " I had progressed from being a person with a literary vision to a person with a visual vision, and in that film I tried to ... suppress my new literacy " and the casting of Joan Jett: " it's a good performance, but ... that piece of casting just did not work.

From a young age, Joan expressed a desire to become a nun ; however, as she was second-in-line to the throne, her father did not allow it.

to Joan Sheldon the conditional bequest of ten thousand to be paid to her in the event that she was still in Mrs. Meeker's employ at the time of the latter's death.

Romantic news concerns Mrs. Joan Monroe Armour and F. Lee H. Wendell, who are to be married at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lake Forest home of her brother, J. Hampton Monroe, and Mrs. Monroe.

Even Joan Sutherland may not have anticipated the tremendous reception she received from the Metropolitan Opera audience attending her debut as Lucia in Donizetti's `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' Sunday night.

allied to them was Gerry, devoting much time to swaying her father, and Joan dismissed all thought of the project and William was unwilling to interfere further.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

When Sforza also abandoned Louis, Alfonso seemed to have all his problems solved ; however, his relationship with Joan suddenly worsened, and in May 1423 he had her lover, and a powerful figure in the Neapolitan court, Gianni Caracciolo, arrested.

It stipulated that a brother of King Louis was to marry Joan of Toulouse, daughter of Raymond VII of Toulouse, and so in 1237 Alphonse married her.

Alphonse's wife Joan ( who died five days after Alphonse ) had attempted to dispose of some of her inherited lands in her will.

Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

At the rock, a local mother, Mrs. Schroeder, tries to tell her child, Baby Joan, to come down from the rock, when Baby Joan licks it-and a spring of water begins flowing from it.

Joan Baez, who was also of Mexican-American descent, included Hispanic themes in some of her protest folk songs.

In 1983, she analysed telephone intercepts on John Cox that gave her access to conversations with Joan Ruddock and Bruce Kent.

In Joan Ruddock's file, MI5 recorded special branch references to her movements — usually public meetings — and kept press cuttings and the products of mail and telephone intercepts obtained through active investigation of other targets, such as the Communist party and John Cox.

In her novel Brain Plague, Joan Slonczewski describes a species of intelligent microrganisms with arsenic based chemistries that live symbiotically with human hosts.

She made her professional debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart, at the Circle Repertory Theatre.

Besides its literary qualities, this poem is important to historians because it is the only record of Joan of Arc outside the documents of her trial.

Acciaioli later became counsellor to Queen Joan I of Naples and, eventually, her Grand Seneschal.

He also stood behind Joan Bennett and insisted on her as his co-star in We're No Angels when a scandal made her persona non grata with Jack Warner.

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.