Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996)

• 63%
• 1996
• Documentary
• TV Movie
• Suzette Winter
• Gene Feldman
• Joan Crawford
• Diane Baker
• Ann Blyth

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.