![]() ![]() in 1943, Crawford filmed Mildred Pierce, which was released two years later and won for the ascending star an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. ![]() She stayed with the studio for eighteen years and, during the Depression era, played a series of roles as a working-class woman, including an empowering role in The Woman (1939). Joan Crawford first found fame on a significant scale in the 1928 film Our Dancing Daughters, which paved the way for her to become one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s leading stars. The book was made into a much-criticized film of the same name in 1981 and is now a classic for its campiness, overacting, and sensationalism. One year after the death of star Joan Crawford, her adopted daughter, Christina Crawford, published Mommie Dearest, a controversial memoir that claimed the film star was cruel and abusive outside the limelight. ![]()
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