Joan Crawford (1906-1977) was one of the most active and glamorous stars in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. Her entire filmography spans a 45-year period from 1925 to 1970 and includes over 70 films, from silent pictures to talkies. Best known...

From her 1930s heyday as a leading MGM box-office draw, to her 1962 performance in the horror classic and cult favorite Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Joan Crawford incarnated, in the words of Henry Fonda, "a star in every sense of the...

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23 1905 – May 10 1977)[1][2] was an Academy Award-winning American actress. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number 10. Starting...

Byline: Cathie Beck, Special to the Rocky Not the Girl Next Door * Nonfiction. By Charlotte Chandler. Simon & Schuster, $26. Grade: B+ Book in a nutshell: This consummate celebrity biographer (of Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman and Groucho Marx, to...

After a year in Hollywood playing teary-eyed ingenues in dull movies, Bette Davis is ready to throw in the Kleenex and head back to Broadway. Her bags are packed when Warner Bros surprises her with a contract and transforms her into a platinum blonde....

If you’ve recently bought David Geffen’s duplex penthouse at 810 Fifth Avenue for $37.5 million, but you’ve also just made $1.9 billion for a day’s work, maybe you might feel financially secure enough to hold on to your older properties. But Pete Peterson, the senior...

When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway...