Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawfordwas an American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stage chorine. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth23 March 1905
CountryUnited States of America
mother children two
[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?
children two giving
You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.
baby happened hollywood scarf whatever
During Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu.
believe
I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
women
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
became enjoy next saw time turned
Next time I saw Crawford, she wanted another round. I told her straight-out I didn't much enjoy doing it with a woman. After I turned her down, she became spiteful.
taken
A lot of them are being taken to Texas,
course next woman
I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
unless
I never go out unless I look like
believe dollars i-believe
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
hurt firsts hollywood
The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.
fairness sometimes deals
Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
forever age ships
Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.
feel-good feels colour
Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.