Joan Crawford 1970 Western Union Telegram Happy Birthday with Book Photo

It was a career that would make her one of the most recognizable women in the world, an Oscar-winner for "Mildred Pierce" of 1945, a style-setter for worldwide fashions, and the wife of three noted actors, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone and Philip Terry each of whom she woudl divorce.

Large eyes, eyebrows that changed shape and position over the years, a wide mouth like a gash of red on always pale skin, high cheekbones and broad shoulders were her visible characteristics. What one did not see was her clickety-click mind that could remember not only names of people she had met briefly years before, but what, at a large cocktail party, her guests were drinking.

This began another range of parts - the self-educating woman, either single or married, who was always trying to improve herself, her job, her manners, her social position, what today would call "upwardly mobile." Three were such roles in "Mannequin," "Foresaking All Others," "No More Ladies," "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," "The Shining Hour."

After the 1945 Oscar, the movie Crawford developed a more hard-bitten shell. There were such films as "The Damned Don't Cry," "Harriet Craig," "This Woman Is Dangerous," "Sudden Fear," "Torch Song," "Johnny Guitar," "Queen Bee" and "Autumn Leaves."

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