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Birthdate: March 23, 1905
Death date: May 10, 1977
Joan Crawford
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.1305
24
1930s
3.8687
26
1940s
3.0107
13
1950s
2.8847
12
1960s
2.8090
6
1970s
1.6119
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1130
3.1130
Joan Crawford Movie Rankings
1
3.1526Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). ...more about Unknown
DVD from $25.59
(8 sellers)
2
3.1298Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, who's career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. ...more about What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actress
DVD from $15.52
(15 sellers)
3
3.1183Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". ...more about Grand Hotel
DVD from $4.99
(15 sellers)
4
3.1115
Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. They soon divorce, leaving Mildred to raise the girls on her own. ...more about Mildred Pierce
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
5
2.9679
The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait. ...more about Today We Live
- Not Available on DVD
6
2.9607
Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. ...more about Women
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
7
2.9000
Eva Phillips is a Southern socialite whose manipulation and ruthlessness ruins the lives of everyone around her. ...more about Queen Bee
DVD from $13.34
(9 sellers)
8
2.8021
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong... ...more about Sudden Fear
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $19.95
(10 sellers)
9
2.7594
A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. ...more about Possessed
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $10.50
(10 sellers)
10
2.7561
This is another of those films where a couple of names (Joan Crawford and Louis Jourdan) that no longer have enough clout to be starred but do have enough clout to demand and get special billing have special "and Louis Jourdan as David Savage" and "Joan ...more about Best of Everything
DVD from $9.27
(8 sellers)
11
2.7314
Vienna has built a saloon oustide of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. ...more about Johnny Guitar
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.7222
Helen Wright, a neurotic society woman, sets her sights on ambitious young violinist Paul Boray, who returns her love, but is undeterred from his music. ...more about Humoresque
DVD from $8.68
(11 sellers)
13
2.7138
Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. ...more about Strait-Jacket
DVD from $13.34
(11 sellers)
14
2.7131
Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before, of his first wife Virginia in the arms of his father. ...more about Autumn Leaves
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.7044
When two teenagers make prank phone calls to strangers, they become the target for terror when they whisper "I Saw What You Did, And I Know Who You Are!" to psychopath Steve Marek (John Ireland) who has just murdered his wife. ...more about I Saw What You Did
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.6994
Count Armalia believes that the luck of birth is all that separates the rich from the poor. To test his theory, he sends Anni, who is a singer in a dive, to a ritzy resort for two weeks. ...more about Bride Wore Red
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.6871
In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding to Prince Igor; Sally is unaware of Mike's detestable occupation. The two steal an airplane that is part of a spy plot and discover secret plans. ...more about Love on the Run
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.6391
Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. ...more about Susan and God
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.6163
Cafe entertainer Ivy Stevens falls for sleazy salesman Howard Palmer and jumps from a bridge when he dumps her. Saved by Salvation Army officer Carl, Ivy reforms and joins the Army. When she runs into Palmer she falls for him all over again. ...more about Laughing Sinners
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.6050
The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. ...more about Damned Don't Cry
DVD from $8.68
(12 sellers)
21
2.5798
Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. ...more about Woman's Face
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.5524
Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. ...more about Strange Cargo
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.5478
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous. ...more about No More Ladies
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.4991
Sadie Thompson is a prostitute quarantined with other passengers on Pago Pago Island. While she gets along with American military stationed there, the missionaries Davidson make her life miserable. ...more about Rain
DVD from $5.00
(5 sellers)
25
2.4656
A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law. ...more about Shining Hour
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.4519
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry him, if he ever divorces his wife Lucille. ...more about Daisy Kenyon
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.4108
In England, some students are mysteriously murdered. A search team is sent out to kill the creature suspected of killing the students. The creature is captured and brought to anthropologist, Br. Brockton. Dr. ...more about Trog
DVD from $8.63
(9 sellers)
28
2.3195
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" racket. ...more about Paid
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.2739
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Kelton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. ...more about Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.2647
Valentine Winters goes to Paris to meet the divorced mother she has never known. She becomes involved with dissipated Tony and when their car rolls over is saved by Harvard footballer Bob. ...more about This Modern Age
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.2556
Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Her friend Anne is thoroughly selfish and amoral. Both are attracted to Ben Black, soon-to-be millionaire. ...more about Our Dancing Daughters
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.2373
Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece-where she meets, Terry, an archaeologist. Kay flirts with Terry and he falls for Kay. Kay heads back to New York and Terry follows her to propose marriage. ...more about I Live My Life
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.1978
After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney is the wheel man in a gangland massacre. Bert, a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. ...more about Dance
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.1962
Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood. Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money into remarriage with Eddie. His plan goes awry at several points. ...more about Mannequin
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.1734
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men. ...more about Chained
- Not Available on DVD
36
2.1460
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. ...more about Possessed
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.1186
Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. ...more about Flamingo Road
- Not Available on DVD
38
2.1095
Oxford Professor Richard Myles and new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't your typical honeymoon though, for they are on a spying mission for British intelligence on the eve of World War 2. ...more about Above Suspicion
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.0547
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. ...more about Dancing Lady
DVD from $6.49
(13 sellers)
40
2.0523
Monica Rivers (Joan Crawford) is the sexy owner of a small traveling circus. When the circus becomes plagued by a spate of murders everyone's eyes turn to Monica, who revels in the publicity. ...more about Berserk!
- Not Available on DVD
41
2.0501
The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family. Lawyer Michael Alderson likes Sadie but she runs off to New York City with boyfriend Tommy to get married. ...more about Sadie McKee
- Not Available on DVD
42
2.0396
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior. ...more about Torch Song
- Not Available on DVD
43
1.8433
Journalist Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. ...more about Goodbye
- Not Available on DVD
44
1.6894
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is. ...more about When Ladies Meet
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.6438
Wealthy socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-tine lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. ...more about Letty Lynton
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.6438
When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she meets Andy, wonderful in every way but wealth. ...more about Untamed
- Not Available on DVD
47
1.6027
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. ...more about Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Not Available on DVD
48
1.5419
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. ...more about Story of Esther Costello
- Not Available on DVD
49
1.5068
Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry. ...more about Slippery Pearls
DVD from $5.84
(3 sellers)
50
1.3665
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to start an out-patient program for the women in the ward. ...more about Caretakers
- Not Available on DVD
51
Joel and Priscilla have been in love since they were children. Mark announces his engagement to her without obtaining her permission. ...more about Across to Singapore
- Not Available on DVD
52
Idealistic farm boy Peter loves May whose fancy is urbane Harry. He discovers Harry is a rum runner and turns him over to prohibition agents, including Jane. May is at last impressed with Peter. ...more about Boob
- Not Available on DVD
54
Della Chappell (Joan Crawford) is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants the land Della lives on, the town sends out Barney Stafford (Paul Burke) to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. ...more about Della
- Not Available on DVD
55
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. ...more about Dream of Love
- Not Available on DVD
56
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. ...more about Duke Steps Out
- Not Available on DVD
57
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house...the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell (or was pushed) from the cliff. ...more about Female on the Beach
- Not Available on DVD
58
Dyl leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dyl, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her. ...more about Forsaking All Others
- Not Available on DVD
59
While Benny is in jail his old henchman Monk takes over the gang and Benny's girl Frieda. Once out Benny wants nothing to do with either. He has reformed and is beloved of his god-fearing mother's good friend Bertha. ...more about Four Walls
- Not Available on DVD
60
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both. ...more about Gorgeous Hussy
- Not Available on DVD
61
Domineering Harriet Craig holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. ...more about Harriet Craig
- Not Available on DVD
62
Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in the Pacific. ...more about Hollywood Canteen
- Not Available on DVD
63
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Marry gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. ...more about Ice Follies of 1939
- Not Available on DVD
64
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid". His girl Betty is on a stagecoach held up by the Kid, who falls for her and who she notices has a tatoo very much like one of Jim's. ...more about Law of the Range
- Not Available on DVD
65
While returning to Montana from a fling in New York, wealthy Joan Prescott leaves the train, intending to return to the big city. She runs into handsome cowboy Larry and gets engaged. ...more about Montana Moon
- Not Available on DVD
66
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. ...more about Old Clothes
- Not Available on DVD
67
Fellow shopgirls and roommates Jerry, Connie and Franky take different paths in the big city. Connie has an affair with David, son of the department store owner, and when he dumps her she kills herself. ...more about Our Blushing Brides
- Not Available on DVD
68
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend. ...more about Our Modern Maidens
- Not Available on DVD
69
Young American millionaire Jerry is in Paris trying to learn about the apache (Paris underground) way of life. In an apache den he comes on to The Girl and is stabbed by her lover The Cat. ...more about Paris
- Not Available on DVD
70
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country. ...more about Reunion in France
- Not Available on DVD
71
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes. ...more about Rose-Marie
- Not Available on DVD
72
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love. Sally wants wealth and gets it finally in Marcus. Mary plots and schemes but winds up with salt-of-the-earth Jimmy. Irene shuns devoted Charles for dashing cad Glen. ...more about Sally
- Not Available on DVD
74
Card shark Lee Rogers overhears Joselyn Poe crying in her furnished room. She is trying to get a dancing job in New York without any luck. ...more about Taxi Dancer
- Not Available on DVD
75
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. ...more about They All Kissed the Bride
- Not Available on DVD
76
A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart. ...more about This Woman Is Dangerous
- Not Available on DVD
78
Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty. ...more about Tramp
DVD from $19.17
(6 sellers)
79
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. ...more about Twelve Miles Out
- Not Available on DVD
80
Minca Dale is a fire lookout in love with Forest Ranger Tony Garland. Escaped killer Bob Mason hides out in Monica's observatory and falls in love with her. A fire encircles them and is put out by rain. ...more about Understanding Heart
- Not Available on DVD
81
Wealthy Bruce Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. ...more about West Point
- Not Available on DVD
82
Able wilderness fighter Colonel O'Hara loves Rene, daughter of the commander of the French forces during the French and Indian War. The Indians, under Pontiac, kidnap Rene. O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her. ...more about Winners of the Wilderness
- Not Available on DVD
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