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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
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Director Robert Aldrich
Writer Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller
Cast Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Plot A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Ranald MacDougall, James M. Cain, William Faulkner
Cast Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Plot A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Grand Hotel (1932)
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Director Edmund Goulding
Writer Vicki Baum, William Absalom Drake, Bela Bala¡zs
Cast Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Plot A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
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The Women (1939)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Clare Boothe Luce, Anita Loos, Jane Murfin
Cast Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Plot A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Johnny Guitar (1954)
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor, Nicholas Ray
Cast Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
Plot After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
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The Unknown (1927)
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Director Tod Browning
Writer Tod Browning, Waldemar Young, Joseph Farnham
Cast Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Plot A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
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Sudden Fear (1952)
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Director David Miller
Writer Lenore J. Coffee, Robert Smith, Edna Sherry
Cast Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Plot After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
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Possessed (1947)
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Director Curtis Bernhardt
Writer Silvia Richards, Ranald MacDougall, Rita Weiman
Cast Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
Plot After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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A Woman's Face (1941)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Francis de Croisset, Donald Ogden Stewart, Elliot Paul
Cast Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Plot A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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Humoresque (1946)
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Director Jean Negulesco
Writer Clifford Odets, Zachary Gold, Fannie Hurst
Cast Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Plot A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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Strait-Jacket (1964)
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Director William Castle
Writer Robert Bloch
Cast Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson
Plot After a 20-year asylum stay for a double ax murder, suspicion arises about Lucy Harbin's behavior as she returns to her daughter Carol, who is engaged to marry Michael Fields. Soon, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her...
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Flamingo Road (1949)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Robert Wilder, Edmund H. North, Sally Wilder
Cast Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
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The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
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Director Vincent Sherman
Writer Harold Medford, Jerome Weidman, Gertrude Walker
Cast Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
Plot A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.
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Rain (1932)
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Director Lewis Milestone
Writer John Colton, Clemence Randolph, W. Somerset Maugham
Cast Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard
Plot A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.
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Daisy Kenyon (1947)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer David Hertz, Elizabeth Janeway
Cast Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
Plot A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.
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Harriet Craig (1950)
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Director Vincent Sherman
Writer James Gunn, Anne Froelich, George Kelly
Cast Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson
Plot Harriet Craig enjoys married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not even trust her husband Walter and always checks up on him.
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Autumn Leaves (1956)
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Director Robert Aldrich
Writer Jean Rouverol, Hugo Butler, Lewis Meltzer
Cast Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles
Plot A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.
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Strange Cargo (1940)
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Director Frank Borzage
Writer Lawrence Hazard, Richard Sale, Anita Loos
Cast Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter
Plot Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).
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Dancing Lady (1933)
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Director Robert Z. Leonard
Writer Allen Rivkin, P.J. Wolfson, James Warner Bellah
Cast Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Plot An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
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Possessed (1931)
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Director Clarence Brown
Writer Edgar Selwyn, Lenore J. Coffee
Cast Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford
Plot An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.
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Queen Bee (1955)
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Director Ranald MacDougall
Writer Ranald MacDougall, Edna L. Lee
Cast Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer
Plot When a young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, she soon gets sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.
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I Saw What You Did (1965)
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Director William Castle
Writer William P. McGivern, Ursula Curtiss
Cast Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson
Plot Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.
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Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
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Director Harry Beaumont
Writer Josephine Lovett, Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings
Cast Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther
Plot A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
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Above Suspicion (1943)
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Director Richard Thorpe
Writer Keith Winter, Melville Baker, Patricia Coleman
Cast Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
Plot Oxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.
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Sadie McKee (1934)
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Director Clarence Brown
Writer John Meehan, Via±a Delmar, Carey Wilson
Cast Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone
Plot A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.
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West Point (1927)
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Director Edward Sedgwick
Writer Raymond L. Schrock, Joseph Farnham
Cast William Haines, Joan Crawford, William Bakewell
Plot Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Disciplined by the coach he yells "To hell with the Corps!" which would have led to further discipline ...
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Berserk (1967)
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Director Jim O'Connolly
Writer Aben Kandel, Herman Cohen
Cast Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
Plot A scheming circus owner finds her authority challenged when a vicious killer targets the show.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
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Director Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice
Writer Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe
Cast Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, William Powell
Plot Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
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Reunion in France (1942)
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Director Jules Dassin
Writer Jan Lustig, Marvin Borowsky, Marc Connelly
Cast Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn
Plot In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
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Mannequin (1937)
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Director Frank Borzage
Writer Lawrence Hazard, Katharine Brush, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis
Plot Affluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.
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Forsaking All Others (1934)
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Director W.S. Van Dyke
Writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frank Cavett, Edward Barry Roberts
Cast Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable
Plot Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.
