Crawford, Joan

Crawford, Joan	Gender: F
Birthname	Le Sueur, Lucille Fay
born on	23 March 1903 at 22:00 (= 10:00 PM )
Place	San Antonio TX, USA, 29n25, 98w30
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
From memory	Rodden Rating A
Astrology data	02°21' 05°56 Asc. 14°55'

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Joan Crawford
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Biography

American actress, on-screen from 1925 in "Ladies of the Night." A teenage dancer and chorus girl, she became a symbol of the jazz age, a flapper in 1928 and one of the most memorable dramatic actresses of her day.

In 1929 she changed her screen name from Billie Cassin to Joan Crawford. Her films included "The Women," 1939, "A Woman's Face," 1941and "Mildred Pierce," 1945, which won her an Oscar.

Crawford married four times; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 6/03/1929, Franchot Tone 10/11/1935, Philip Terry 7/21/1942 and Alfred Steele, Chairman of the Board of Pepsi Cola on 5/10/1955; four adopted kids.

Ambitious, passionate and driven, she said "The need to work is always there, bugging me." That drive was stilled with her death on 5/10/1977, 10:00 AM, New York.

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Relationships

adopted child relationship with Crawford, Christina (born 11 June 1939)

spouse relationship with Fairbanks, Jr. Douglas (born 9 December 1909)

Events

Death, Cause unspecified 10 May 1977 (Age 74)
Relationship : Marriage 3 June 1929 (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)

Relationship : Marriage 11 October 1935 (Franchot Tone)

Relationship : Marriage 21 July 1942 (Philip Terry)

Relationship : Marriage 10 May 1955 (Alfred Steele)

Work : Prize 1945 (Oscar award)

Source Notes

Judy Johns quotes her teacher, Nelle Sliter, "from Crawford as a client" for the date and time shown.

(Other dates and times have been given over the years)

News report 2001: Los Angeles author Karen Swenson, who is working with fellow California author Chris Nickens on a biography about the Academy Award-winning actress, thinks Crawford simply shaved four years off her actual birthdate, not an uncommon tactic among actresses of the era. "If that (birthdate) is true, it would have made her 14 years old when she went to college, Swenson said. ``It would have made her 16 when she came to MGM. It just doesn't add up.

The biographer also thinks Crawford may have been mistaken about her birthplace, and Swenson is now looking into the possibility Crawford was born in San Angelo, not San Antonio.

Suzanne Campbell of the West Texas Collection at Angelo State University was unable to find a birth record for Lucille LeSueur, but she did find two documents that place the LeSueur family in San Angelo: a 1902 marriage license and a 1908 listing in the San Angelo City Directory.

The marriage license was filed Nov. 10, 1902, in Tom Green County between a Mrs. Annie B. McConnell (Johnson apparently was previously married) and Thomas LeSueur. If Swenson's estimated birthdate for Crawford is correct - March 23, 1904, instead of March 23, 1908, as Crawford claimed - then the marriage license was filed 18 months before Crawford was born.) In August 2011, a reader who wishes to remain anonymous wrote: 1906 seems correct. It makes the most sense despite no documentation as proof. Texas didn't start recording births until 1903 and didn't get really organized about it until years after that. This site in particular pegs 1906 well: http://www.legendaryjoancrawford.com/earlyyears1.html.

As seen above in a birth record (and on tombstone, her brother was actually born September 3, 1903, ruling out that year and definitely 1904. Joan herself eventually claimed she was born in 1908 (on tombstone.) Donald Spoto's Processed: The Life of Joan Crawford explains on page 6: 'By the time she registered for the new Social Security program in the 1930s, she had already been accustomed to stating her birth year as 1908; there was, after all, no official document to the contrary, for in 1906, birth certificates were neither mandatory nor routine in Texas. And so, with the encouragement and complicity of studio publicists, she established her birth year as 1908, effectively diminishing her age by two years. According to California law, however, the studio could not hire a seventeen-year-old in 1925 (first contract) without parental approval, and this was neither required nor requested in her case. Lucille had applied for a work-study program at Stephens College, Missouri, in 1922, and at that time she truthfully gave her age as sixteen. She certainly could not have hoodwinked anyone at Stephens into accepting her if she was in fact only fourteen years old. By 1936, magazine articles occasionally reported her birth year (without correction from the subject or her bosses) and she herself revealed it least once. The occasion was a meeting in November 1967 with the Trustees of Brandeis University, who named her a Fellow in recognition of "her interest, time and service to a host of civic and philanthropic causes." By that time she had donated a large cache of personal effects to the university.' The book mentions on pages 126-7 that the March 1, 1937 issue of Life Magazine features an article titled "Joan Crawford: Mrs. Tone at Home" and accurately [without "proof", accuracy is still in question] notes she was born on March 23, 1906."

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