Joan Crawford: Always the Star(1996)

movie - first aired/released 1996-09-30 - 50 min - audience 7.5

Documentary, TV Movie

Directed by Gene Feldman, Suzette Winter

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.