Joan Crawford: Always the Star

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.

• Suzette WinterDirector
• Suzette WinterWriter
• Gene FeldmanWriter
• Gene FeldmanDirector

• Joan CrawfordSelf (archive footage)
• Diane BakerSelf
• Ann BlythSelf (archive footage)
• Ben CooperSelf
• Bette DavisSelf (archive footage)
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Self (archive footage)
• Clark GableSelf (archive footage)
• Greta GarboSelf (archive footage)
• Walter HustonSelf (archive footage)
• Cindy JordanSelf
• Herbert KenwithSelf
• Elva MartienSelf