Joan Crawford - Biography - IMDb. Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay Le. Sueur on March 2. San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. Le. Sueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. A lone man refusing to do the Nazi salute, 1936. The photo was taken at the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, during a ceremony that was attended by Adolf. Helen Keller was an American lecturer, author, and activist. Deaf and blind since early childhood, and living in an era where most individuals similarly afflicted. It wasn't an easy life; Crawford worked a variety of menial jobs. She was a good dancer, though, and - - perhaps seeing dance as her ticket to a career in show business - - she entered several contests, one of which landed her a spot in a chorus line. Before long, she was dancing in big Midwestern and East Coast cities. After almost two years, she packed her bags and moved to Hollywood. Crawford was determined to succeed, and shortly after arriving she got her first bit part, as a showgirl in Pretty Ladies (1. Three films quickly followed; although the roles weren't much to speak of, she continued toiling. But then war broke out in 2011, when she was 13, and Mardini saw her relatively idyllic life begin to transform. Luise Rainer (12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German and American film actress. She was the first actor to win multiple Academy Awards and the first. Sonja Henie won 10 world championships (in a row!) and holds three Olympic golds, plus she made millions in Hollywood. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: 'Nag, come up and dance with death!'. Throughout 1. 92. Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1. Crawford had cleared the first big hurdle; now came the second, in the form of talkies. Many stars of the silents saw their careers evaporate, either because their voices weren't particularly pleasant or because their voices, pleasing enough, didn't match the public's expectations (for example, some fans felt that John Gilbert's tenor didn't quite match his very masculine persona). But Crawford wasn't felled by sound. Her first talkie, Untamed (1. As the 1. 93. 0s progressed, Crawford became one of the biggest stars at MGM. She was in top form in films such as Menschen im Hotel (1. Sadie Mc. Kee (1. No More Ladies (1. Love on the Run (1. By the early 1. 94. MGM was no longer giving her plum roles; newcomers had arrived in Hollywood, and the public wanted to see them. Crawford left MGM for rival Warner Bros., and in 1. Solange ein Herz schl. The following year she appeared with John Garfield in the well- received Humoreske (1. In 1. 94. 7, she appeared as Louise Graham in Hemmungslose Liebe (1. Best Actress from the Academy, but she lost to Loretta Young in Die Farmerstochter (1. He & She Photography is a team effort between two friends: (He) the photographer, and (She) the behind the scenes maestro – two friends who happen to have vowed to. Sada Abe was the seventh of eight children of Shigeyoshi and Katsu Abe, an upper middle-class family of tatami mat makers in Tokyo's Kanda. Crawford continued to choose her roles carefully, and in 1. Myra Hudson in Maskierte Herzen (1. This time the coveted Oscar went to Shirley Booth, for Kehr zur. Crawford's career slowed after that; she appeared in minor roles until 1. Bette Davis co- starred in Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane? Their longstanding rivalry may have helped fuel their phenomenally vitriolic and well- received performances. I don't see how she built a career out of a set of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public really likes that. Turning to vodka more and more, she was hardly seen afterward. On May 1. 0, 1. 97. Joan died of cancer in New York City. She had disinherited her adopted daughter Christina and son Christopher; the former wrote a tell- all book called . The book cast Crawford in a negative light and was cause for much debate, particularly among her friends and acquaintances, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first husband. Crawford then donated all of her salary to the Red Cross, which found Lombard's body, and promptly fired her agent for taking his usual 1. The last one came two weeks before her death. She used to wash her hands every ten minutes and follow guests around her house wiping everything they touched, especially doorknobs and pieces from her china set. She would never smoke a cigarette unless she opened the pack herself, and would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it. Tisdale, a crippled woman living in Albany, New York, won $5. Since the state of California did not allow single men and women to adopt children at that time, Joan had to search for agencies in the eastern United States. The agency in charge of the adoption of Christina was later exposed as part of a black market baby ring. Although she wanted more than anything to continue dancing, she turned down the offer at first. Another chorus girl persuaded her to try the test, however, and a few weeks later she was put under contract. Thinking that a fight would hurt the well- being of the child, Joan gave him back to his mother, who then sold him to another family. The attempt failed when MGM pointed out they could not definitely prove the actress in the film was Crawford. The incident was mentioned in a couple of biographies. Hutton would often encourage her own children to spend some time with . Her two older children claimed they couldn't be twins because they looked nothing alike. In the early 1. 99. Cathy found their birth certificate, which proved that they were indeed twins, born on January 1. The fact that they were fraternal twins, rather than identical, can account for the fact that they did not look alike. The twins eventually met their birth father and other biological relatives. They found out that their birth mother had died of kidney failure soon after birth and that their father, who had not been married to their mother, did not find out about them until after it was too late. They were sold illegally to Crawford by Tennessee Children's Home Society director Georgia Tann. She earned $6. 0,0. Warner had her in mind for the role of Kathryn Mason in Tatort Springfield (1. However, after reading the script, she told her agent to tell Warner that . During the 1. 96. World's Fair, Joan, who at the time was member of the board of directors of Pepsi Cola, approached Walt Disney with the suggestion to create a ride dedicated to the children of the world. The musical boat ride was a smash hit and once the fair ended . In reality, they had a handful of similarities in their personal lives. They both had fathers who abandoned their families at a young age, they rose from poverty to success while breaking into films during the late 1. Oscar- winning leading ladies, were staunch liberal Democrats and feminists, and had daughters who wrote books denouncing them as bad mothers. Douglas, failed to show . The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn. In early 1. 95. 3 she was in talks to star as Sylvia Merril in the Irving Asher production of . However, the film was shelved when after several rewrites Asher and Crawford weren't sure about the strength of the script. She and director Nicholas Ray (who had been hired to direct . It was Republic that ended up making Geheimzentrale Lissabon (1. Maureen O'Hara playing Sylvia Merril. At the time, she was still a member of the soft drink giant's board of directors. You don't manufacture stars. They were all just so disappointing to me, I really had high expectations for some of them. I thought that William Castle and I did our best on Die Zwangsjacke (1. I even thought that Zirkus des Todes (1. The other one William Castle and I did . Then came Das Ungeheuer (1. Now you can understand why I retired from making motion pictures. Incidentally, I think at that point in my career I was doing my best work on television. Della was a good television role for me, and I really liked working on that pilot episode of Night Gallery: Night Gallery (The Cemetery/Eyes/The Escape Route) (1. Steven Spielberg. He did a great job and I am very satisfied with my performance on that show. Funny, every time a reporter asks me about my horror pictures they never talk about that one, and it's the only one I liked! It takes two to feud and I'm not one of them. I only wish the best for Tina. Otherwise you will be destroyed. There's a lot of bitch in every woman- -a lot in every man. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, ! Bette is of a different temperament than I. Bette had to yell every morning. I just sat and knitted. I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu. If only she hadn't been so afraid, she wouldn't today be a lonely stranger on Fifth Avenue, fleeing before recognition. I looked forward to working with Bette again. I had no idea of the extent of her hate, and that she planned to destroy me. Did you see the picture? It couldn't possibly be me. Bette looked so old, and so dreadfully overweight. In my fallen- woman roles . Censorship was a pain in the ass- -when it was moral or political- -but in the long run, considering what I see now, I think it served a purpose. Oh, what was the film . He's at least 4. 0 pounds overweight, and I think the only sex appeal he has would be to a meat packer. The emphasis seems to be on the seamier side of real life, as though we should be more interested in what happened in the bathroom and the bedroom instead of living room, kitchen and office. The perspective is crazy. If we think about our lives, and divide time into the portions spent on making a living, eating, talking, reading, being entertained by TV or movies or radio or theater or whatever, and having sex, I think we'd find sex coming out on the short end of the stick. Unless you're a whore it doesn't give you the wherewithal to survive. Good God, isn't it more fun doing it or imagining it than watching it? I know I sound like some sort of old Puritan, but I still think back to . It was a hell of a lot more sexually stimulating than a glimpse of fat Marlon Brando. That proves that Bette did have some good taste in men. Franchot said he thought Bette was a good actress, but he never thought of her as a woman. Our marriage didn't last, but we had some wonderful years. I wouldn't give them back for anything, and we remained friends as long as he lived. He was one hell of a fine actor, but he loved the theatre and despised Hollywood. He very seldom got the parts he deserved, and I think this bugged him a lot. I wasn't as nice to him, as considerate, as I should have been. I was extremely busy during those years, and I didn't realize that his insecurities and dissatisfactions ran so deeply. All we can do is our best. Originally a code- breaker working at Bletchley Park, she joined the Special Operations Executive following her brother's death. She later joined the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR), an Allied deep science agency formed to fight against HYDRA, the Nazi super weapons division. On the undercover mission in Germany she saved Professor Abraham Erskine from the villainous Johann Schmidt. The success of her mission enabled the SSR to start Project Rebirth, an effort to develop the Super Soldier Serum to make an army of Super Soldiers. During the project she met and befriended the frail Steve Rogers, the US Army soldier and one of the project's candidates. After Rogers' disappearance in 1. SSR's fight against HYDRA, capturing the last high- ranking HYDRA officer Werner Reinhardt, and continuing her service in the SSR once the War ended. She helped Stark found the new peacekeeping organization, the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known by its acronym S. H. I. E. L. D. She eventually married a former Allied soldier and became a mother of two children, though she would continue her service in S. H. I. E. L. D. Eventually Carter retired and saw her niece Sharon Carter follow in her footsteps. During her retirement, Carter learned that Captain America had survived all these years, but by this time she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and struggled to take in the news. She died peacefully in her sleep in 2. You'll be the death of me Peggy Carter! Oh where is my blasted handkerchief? Go on, have a laugh, but one of these days you're going to have to start behaving like a lady. She received her education from St Martin- In- The- Fields High School for Girls. She was particularly close to her older brother, Michael, whom she admired. Her mother often found Peggy's sense of adventure frightening and advised her to act more like a traditional lady. The incident made Carter a hero to her fellow students.? But they don't send women into the field. By 1. 94. 0 she was working as a codebreaker in Bletchley Park. During this time, Carter became engaged to Fred Wells, a man who worked in her department. Her priorities were called into question when Mr. Edwards informed her that she had been recommended for the Special Operations Executive. Believing that a woman should not fight, Carter turned down the offer. To her disappointment, she discovered that Michael believed Wells was not good enough for her and that his sister had the potential for greater things. He revealed that he was the one who had recommended Peggy to be a field agent. The pair discussed if this wedding was truly what she wanted, with Michael telling her that as it was not yet her wedding day, she still had time to change her mind. In spite of his assurances that she was meant to be a fighter, Peggy refused to listen and stormed away. The preparations were tragically cut short when the family were informed that Michael had been killed fighting in World War II. His death greatly saddened Carter, who realized she had lost the only person who truly understood who she was. The loss prompted her to reverse her earlier decision and pursue the field agent position, but as a result, the marriage was called off. In November 1. 94. Castle Kaufmann, the headquarters of the SS general Johann Schmidt, leader of HYDRA, Adolf Hitler's top secret science division. Disguised as the maid Eva, she freed the captured scientist Abraham Erskine, the creator of the Super Soldier Serum, and escaped the castle. Carter served under Colonel Chester Phillips in the Strategic Scientific Reserve.! My grandmother has more life in her, God rest her soul. When Private Gilmore Hodge mocked her English heritage and the fact that she was a woman, she promptly punched him across the jaw, much to Chester Phillips' approval. Carter oversaw potential candidates' training for Project Rebirth, including a skinny but determined Steve Rogers. She smiled each time Rogers would do something smarter or braver than the other candidates, such as dispatching a flagpole to retrieve a flag or diving on a grenade, not knowing it was a dud, to protect others. Along the drive, Carter and Rogers bonded over their shared struggles to gain respect in war time, Rogers due to his height and Carter due to her gender. Although Rogers was hopeless at speaking to a woman, Carter was charmed by his honesty and kindness. During the procedure, Rogers began to scream in pain; Carter ordered Erskine to stop, but Rogers insisted he could finish the procedure. Rogers was successfully transformed, growing over a foot in height and gaining incredible muscles. Carter was one of the first to greet him after his transformation and provided him with a new shirt, not before touching his newly muscled figure. Kruger then shot and killed. Abraham Erskine before making his escape. Carter was able to shoot him in the arm and gave chase. She followed the assassin into the streets of Brooklyn and fired several rounds into the car Kruger was using to escape. She managed to shoot the driver, but Kruger turned the car around and drove straight at her. She was saved by Rogers, who pushed her out the way, although Carter insisted she could have killed him. Rogers gave chase and successfully caught the assassin, but was unable to stop Kruger from killing himself. In November 1. 94. Agent Carter met Steve Rogers again, though at this time he was employed by the US Government to perform as the Army's mascot Captain America. Carter spoke to him, telling him that Erskine meant him for more than performing; during their conversation Rogers learned that his friend Bucky Barnes had been captured by HYDRA and Phillips was not planning a rescue mission. They took a plane and Stark flew them to the destination; along the way, Carter gave Rogers a radio to call her when he needed to be picked up. The plane was soon fired upon by enemy guns, so Rogers leaped from the plane while Stark flew Carter to safety. After a few days, Rogers did not return, leading Chester Phillips to announce him as killed in action, but before he could punish Carter for her part in Rogers' death, Rogers returned to the base with over 4. Carter berated him for arriving late, and Rogers showed her that his radio had been damaged in the firefight. They discussed the best way to take down HYDRA bases scattered across the Nazi- occupied Europe. She later met Rogers in a bar while he was putting together a new team for his next missions. Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes found themselves in awe of Carter as she was wearing a beautiful red dress rather than her uniform. Although Barnes tried in vain to ask Carter for a dance, Carter would not look at him and told Rogers that once the war was over, she wanted to go dancing with the right partner. She told him that Phillips needed to see him in the morning and left. He accused her of having a relationship with Howard Stark, much to her frustration. When she came to collect Rogers later, she found him trying out the new shield Stark had provided for him; without warning Carter picked up a gun and shot at Rogers, claiming to be simply testing the shield. She left leaving Rogers and Stark shocked and impressed. Knowing that Rogers would be devastated by the loss of his closest friend, she went to find him. She found him sitting alone in the ruins of a bar drinking. She tried to comfort him, reminding him that Barnes' death was not his fault and Barnes must have believed that their mission was worth his sacrifice. He'll know what to do. This thing's moving too fast and it's heading for New York. I gotta put her in the water. Carter was a member of a company of soldiers led by Colonel Chester Phillips to follow Rogers into the HYDRA base. Carter was able to save Rogers' life when he was pinned back by a HYDRA soldier using flame throwers; Carter shot the enemy soldier in the back causing his equipment to explode. Rogers jokingly told her she was late, reminding her of their earlier mission when she accused him of the same thing. Rogers gave chase to Schmidt while Carter continued to fight. Moments before he jumped aboard the Valkyrie, Carter kissed Rogers and told him to get Schmidt. Rogers managed to leap aboard the plane as Phillips was able to stop the car from plunging off a cliff edge. Carter watched as the plane flew away with Rogers on board. Knowing that the plane Rogers was on would cause a lot of trouble for America, he was left with one option; forcing the large plane to land on the waters of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. She pressed on the matter, implying that there would be time for them to sort the situation out, even if Howard Stark had to be called. However, Rogers claimed that there was not enough time, and proceeded with the landing. As the plane made its final descent, Peggy and Steve set a date where she would teach him how to dance. All communications with the plane were then lost, and all Carter could do was cry. They'll be relocated and hidden out of sight, indefinitely, as will you. After arresting him, she had everything in the base confiscated and labelled. The label 0- 8- 4 was placed on an alien artifact in Reinhardt's possession that was shaped like an Obelisk. Carter discussed with Dugan that, with the war ending, a peace time organization was needed to protect the innocent from dangerous technologies and to supervise people like Howard Stark. With the war now won, the London SSR base was packed away and Carter began to help with the filing. Chester Phillips came over to her while she was moving boxes and handed her a single file, Captain Steve Rogers' file. She opened it and saw a picture of the man she loved before his transformation, a skinny but determined man. She kept the photo with her for many years after the war to remind her of the man she loved and lost. You didn't use the pen. How terribly shocking. Seeking to find out more information, Carter visited the Rat to interrogate him.
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