Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996)
• September 30th, 1996 • 0h 50min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World
Released on: 2016-05-09
Documentary, Music
Experience an inside look at David Bowie's incredible influence on music, art and culture via interv...
John Ford & Monument Valley
Released on: 2013-03-05
Documentary
John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford
The Eyes of Thailand
Released on: 2012-04-28
Documentary
Tells the true story of one woman's quest to help two elephant landmine survivors-Motala and Baby Mo...
The Hooping Life
Released on: 2014-04-22
Documentary
Learn the origins and rise of modern day hula-hooping through eight extraordinary stories of hoop de...
I Want to See
Released on: 2008-05-16
Documentary, Drama, History
July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine...
Visions of Europe
Released on: 2004-05-01
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Step
Released on: 2017-07-28
Documentary
The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try...
Trophy
Released on: 2017-01-20
Documentary
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conserv...
Unrest
Released on: 2017-10-20
Documentary
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, do...
Whose Streets?
Released on: 2017-08-11
Documentary
A nonfiction account of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it, this is an unflinchin...
Kurosawa's Way
Released on: 2011-05-13
Documentary
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surpri...
Whose Home on the Range?
Released on: 2000-03-01
Documentary
Catron County, New Mexico -- the 'toughest county in the West' -- has been at the center of a strugg...
Is the Crown at war with us?
Released on: 2003-09-13
Documentary
In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Bur...
Jakub
Released on: 1992-07-10
Documentary
Jakub presents an extensive ethnographical-sociological study of the life of the Ruthenians, filmed ...
Supergirl
Released on: 2016-10-09
Documentary
Naomi seems like a typical nine-year-old girl, until her passion for powerlifting transforms her lif...
I'm Going to Santiago
Released on: 1964-01-01
Documentary
This black-and-white film is a loving portrait of Santiago de Cuba and its people. It provides a vie...
Mabel
Released on: 2016-01-01
Documentary
Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers b...
Kati: A Freestyle That Stays
Released on: 2024-07-01
Drama, TV Movie
Four years after the end of the German Democratic Republic, Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic champion...
1971
Released on: 2014-04-18
Documentary, History
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight acti...