Could her shoulder pads get any bigger? Though Joan Crawford was known for her glamorous sense of fashion, she is also remembered for those wide shoulder pads coupled with an illustrious screen career ...

Difficult? Demanding? Probably. But Hollywood legend Joan Crawford was no 'Mommie Dearest,' says author Scott Eyman. 'She was ...

The private Joan Crawford fought as hard to create a normal family life as she did to establish her career. She forged her own path and to that end became a single parent, eventually adopting and ...

"Of Human Bondage" (1934): After churning out 22 films in her first three years in Hollywood, Davis finally got her big break in this adaptation of the celebrated Somerset Maugham novel. She sizzled ...

One of the best talks I’ve attended about how women have been depicted in movies was given by scholar, professor and movie reviewer Molly Haskell one evening at the Dryden Theatre, which is part of ...

In 1969, the BBC scored a coup. The network tapped none other than Joan Crawford, one of the largest (or larger-than-life) film legends to narrate a documentary - which the U.K.'s BBC Four is now ...

“Above Suspicion,” was the final film Joan Crawford made as a contract player for MGM Studios; a 1943 espionage caper co-starring Fred MacMurray. It’s also a reasonable assessment of the sincere ...

In 1969, one classic MGM star paid tribute to another with a documentary film... but it's hard to find. Garbo — an infamous recluse until her dying day — didn’t socialize with her fellow actors.