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The Women

The Women (1939) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard

Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) finds her marriage in ...

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce (1945) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth

Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerned a tawdry waitress who slept her way to financial security so as to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, only to be rewarded by having her true love stolen away by that same daughter. Ranald ...

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) more movies like this

directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee, Maide Norman

As a child, "Baby Jane" Hudson was the toast of vaudeville. As an adult, however, Baby Jane was overshadowed by her more talented sister, Blanche, who became a top movie star. Then, one night in the early '30s, came the accident, which crippled Blanche for life and which was blamed on a drunken, jealous Jane. Flash-forward to 1962: Jane (Bette ...

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Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel (1932) more movies like this

directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore

Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are ...

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Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar (1954) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Ray
featuring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Cooper, Royal Dano, Paul Fix

One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title character, played by Sterling Hayden, is a guitar-strumming drifter who was once the lover of Arizona saloon-owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Though her establishment doesn't make a dime, Vienna doesn't ...

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Trog

Trog (1970) more movies like this

directed by Freddie Francis
featuring Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden, David Griffin

Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama. The creature is found in a cave and brought to her laboratory to undergo tests for her research. The hairy beast with the face of a monkey loves classical music and hates rock & roll. When one of the slack-jawed yokels opens ...

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Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady (1933) more movies like this

directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire

Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an impoverished dancer reduced to working in a seedy Manhattan burlesque house. While on a slumming party with his society friend, wealthy young Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) spots Janie in the burleycue chorus ...

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Reunion in France

Reunion in France (1942) more movies like this

directed by Jules Dassin
featuring Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert Basserman

Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director Jules Dassin -- who was promptly demoted back to the MGM "B" department when the picture tanked at the box office. Joan Crawford stars as Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, who comes to believe that her fiancé, wealthy ...

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Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear (1952) more movies like this

directed by David Miller
featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston

Joan Crawford stars as wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright who meets Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) while casting her new play in New York. They meet again on the train ride back, fall in love and marry. Unknown to Myra, Lester is seeing mistress Irene Neves (Gloria Grahame), whom he still loves and has married only ...

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Strait-Jacket

Strait-Jacket (1964) more movies like this

directed by William Castle
featuring Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson

In this chilling blood-tale in "Psycho" style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum for 20 years before reuniting with the daughter (Diane Baker). From this point, the axe murders ...

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The Possessed

The Possessed (1931) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Frank Conroy

Joan Crawford is her usual upwardly mobile self in this melodrama co-starring Clark Gable. She plays Marian Martin, a cynical small-town girl determining to give up the idea of marriage. Kept by wealthy attorney Mark Whitney (Gable), Marian assumes a new identity as a divorced woman of the world, but her newfound life of luxury comes crashing down ...

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Queen Bee (1955) more movies like this

directed by Ranald MacDougall
featuring Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow

Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in this dark drama. On first meeting, Eva Phillips (portrayed with delicious viciousness by Joan Crawford) is the epitome of Southern graciousness and charm. She and her husband, a textile magnate live together in a ...

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Susan and God (1940) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth

Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars as Susan, whose unquestioning devotion to various religious organizations causes a great deal of strain between herself and her family. When Susan embraces a "New Thought" theological movement, she decides to apply the ...

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) more movies like this

directed by Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, Richard Boleslawski
featuring Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph

Based on a popular drawing-room drama by Frederick Lonsdale, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney stars Joan Crawford as a jewel thief who poses as an aristocrat. It is Crawford's intention to pilfer a valuable pearl necklace while attending a society party in the company of partner-in-crime William Powell. Here she attracts the attention of Robert Montgomery ...

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Humoresque (1946) more movies like this

directed by Jean Negulesco
featuring Joan Crawford, John Abbott, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, Paul Cavanagh, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler, Tommy Cook

Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends and family in his rise to fame. Screenwriters Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold refashioned this timeworn material into a first-class, big-budget soap opera, completely dominated by the high-octane talents of Joan Crawford ...

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Possessed (1947) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Bernhardt
featuring Griff Barnett, Joan Crawford, Monte Blue, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Nana Bryant, Stanley Ridges

We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning "David....David." She goes to pieces in public and is rushed to the mental ward, where a team of psychiatrists try to find out who she is and where she's been. Who she is is a practical nurse, hired by Raymond Massey to ...

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The Bride Wore Red (1937) more movies like this

directed by Dorothy Arzner
featuring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen

Based on The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnar, The Bride Wore Red stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine. A singer in a seedy Budapest dive, Anni (Crawford) is mistaken for a socialite thanks to a practical joke perpetrated by the cynical Count Armalia (George Zucco). Though a bit confused about her new favored status, Anni happily ...

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Autumn Leaves (1956) more movies like this

directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly

Few actresses other than Joan Crawford could have successfully pulled off the melodramatic excesses of Autumn Leaves. Though a very attractive fortysomething, Crawford remains aloof from romance until she meets Cliff Robertson, a young man half her age. An ardent and persistent suitor, Robertson finally breaks down her resistence to marriage. ...

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The Shining Hour (1938) more movies like this

directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter

Frank Borzage directed this doomed romance starring Joan Crawford as Olivia Riley, the young bride of Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), an upper-crust conservative. Olivia is a show girl in a New York nightclub and when Henry brings her home to his family -- his brother David (Robert Young) and spinster sister Hannah (Fay Bainter) -- on his family's ...

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Laughing Sinners (1931) more movies like this

directed by Harry Beaumont
featuring Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee

The Kenyon Nicholson play Torch Song was the source for the Joan Crawford vehicle Laughing Sinners. Crawford plays nightclub entertainer Ivy Stevens, who loses her zest for living when she's thrown over by her salesman sweetheart Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton). At her lowest ebb, Ivy is befriended by Salvation Army captain Carl Loomis (yes, that's ...

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Sadie McKee (1934) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston

MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield unexpected delights. It all begins when Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford) is brought to big bad old New York by glib vaudevillian Tommy (Gene Raymond), only to be unceremoniously dumped in favor of actress Dolly (Esther Ralston). Cast ...

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A Woman's Face (1941) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen

A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan Crawford's best vehicles. Told in flashback from the vantage point of a murder trial, the story concerns a female criminal whose face is disfigured by a hideous scar. The plastic-surgery removal of this disfigurement has profound ...

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Night Gallery [TV Series] (1969) more movies like this

directed by Barry Shear, Boris Sagal, Steven Spielberg
featuring Joan Crawford, Richard Kiley, Tom Bosley

In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short stories, introducing each with a framed portrait in a nocturnal art gallery. The first story stars Roddy MacDowall as a covetous nephew who murders his uncle, suffering the consequence of being possessed by a family painting. ...

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Daisy Kenyon (1947) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Joan Crawford, Art Baker, Dana Andrews, Griff Barnett, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, John Davidson, Martha Stewart

Daisy Kenyon stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a handsome, married attorney (Dana Andrews) and an unmarried Henry Fonda. Deciding to do the "right thing", Daisy marries Fonda, but carries a torch for the dashing Andrews. When the lawyer divorces his wife, he calls upon Daisy ...

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Harriet Craig (1950) more movies like this

directed by Vincent Sherman
featuring Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Joslyn, William Bishop

Harriet Craig is the third film version of George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife. Joan Crawford stars as the title character, a thoroughly selfish woman who prizes her house and her possessions above all else. Harriet Craig is even willing to spoil the business opportunities of her husband Walter (Wendell Corey) to avoid losing ...

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