Crawford, Joan

Alternative birthtime
birthdate from daughter Christina's book
Date	23 March 1904
Place	San Antonio, TX (US), 29n25, 98w30
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Astrology data	02°41'

Crawford, Joan	Gender: F
Birthname	Lucille Fay LeSueur
born on	23 March 1906
Place	San Antonio, Texas, 29n25, 98w30
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
	Rodden Rating XX
	Collector: Rodden
Astrology data	02°12'

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Joan Crawford

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," 1941 and "Mildred Pierce," 1945, which won her an Oscar.

Crawford married four times; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 3 June 1929; Franchot Tone, 11 October 1935; Philip Terry, 21 July 1942 and Alfred Steele, Chairman of the Board of Pepsi Cola on 10 May 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 10 May 1977, 10:00 AM, in New York, from a heart attack, while also reportedly ill with cancer.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

associate relationship with Adrian (born 3 March 1903). Notes: Worked together 28 times

associate relationship with Novarro, Ramon (born 6 February 1899). Notes: Co-star in "Across to Singapore," 1928

friend relationship with Arnold, Eve (born 21 April 1912)

friend relationship with Bailey, Pearl (born 29 March 1918)

friend relationship with Cromwell, Richard (1910) (born 8 January 1910)

lover relationship with Bautzer, Greg (born 3 April 1911). Notes: Four-year relationship

lover relationship with Ford, Glenn (born 1 May 1916). Notes: Had a fling in the early 1940s

lover relationship with Mankiewicz, Joseph L. (born 11 February 1909)

lover relationship with Tracy, Spencer (born 5 April 1900). Notes: 1937

lover relationship with Wagner, Robert (born 10 February 1930)

lover relationship with Whitney, John Hay (born 17 August 1904)

neighbor relationship with Lilly, Doris (born 26 December 1921)

opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Davis, Bette (born 5 April 1908). Notes: Lifelong feud

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

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

compare to chart of Curtiz, Michael (born 25 December 1886). Notes: Crawford won her only Academy Award under Curtiz's direction

role played of/by Dunaway, Faye (born 14 January 1941). Notes: "Mommie Dearest"

role played of/by Lange, Jessica (born 20 April 1949). Notes: Lange plays Crawford in 2017 TV series "Feud: Bette and Joan"

role played of/by Pierce, Charles (born 14 July 1926)

Events

Relationship : Marriage 3 June 1929 (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
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Relationship : Marriage 11 October 1935 (Franchot Tone)
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Relationship : Marriage 21 July 1942 (Philip Terry)
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Work : Prize 7 March 1946 (Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Mildred Pierce")
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Relationship : Marriage 10 May 1955 (Alfred Steele)
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Death by Heart Attack 10 May 1977 (Age 74)
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Source Notes

brother Hal's birth certificate

Judy Johns quotes her teacher, Nelle Sliter, "from Crawford as a client" for the date 23 March 1903 and time 10 pm.

This cannot be correct, because her brother Hal is born 3 September 1903 (see image on the right).

Many dates and times have been given over the years.

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.

Joan herself eventually claimed she was born in 1908 (on tombstone.) Donald Spoto's Processed: The Life of Joan Crawford (ed.2011) 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."

Joan Crawford's daughter Christina, in the 1978 biography "Mommie Dearest", firmly states 1904 twice in the book on pages 20 and 66. "Publicly her birth date was reported as March 23, 1908, but Grandmother told me that she was actually born in 1904." (pg. 20)

"My mother was born Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, in 1904, although when she came to Hollywood she lied about her age and changed the year to 1908" (pg. 66)

16 July 2013: Starkman rectified her chart to 23 March 1905 21.08.12 CST Asc 4Sco17' Moon 14Sco05

Alternative birthtime
birthdate from daughter Christina's book
Date	23 March 1904
Place	San Antonio, TX (US), 29n25, 98w30
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Astrology data	02°41'

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