The Evolution of Joan Crawford

My personal ode to Joan Crawford. I included 4 seconds from every film I could get my hands on, minus cameo appearances and television performances. 64 films in total, ranging from 1926 to 1970. Update: A more complete version of this video can be found here • The Films of Joan Craw...
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[@GROWLINGGORILLA25]

FUCKIN HELL!!!this JOAN CRAWFORD IS A LEGEND!!!!its unbelieveable how many films she pumped out year after year!!!!-ive never seen any of her work,but you can bet your butt im going to start watching anything and everything i can get me hands on!!!!awesome MADONNA HOLLYWOOD music in the back ground!!!!

[@nathaninlondon]

Joan Crawford's beauty in the early 30s was incomparable

[@Shubael1809]

About 1931 (POSSESSED) she was the most stunningly beautiful creature I've ever seen.

[@ForEverGilda]

I love Joan Crawford. Not an original statement perhaps but a fact. I don't care at all about her personal life but I do care about what I see up there on the screen, and that only matters for me. She was a huge star, a great personality and beauty. She endured because she knew how to change with the times. Thanks for this tribute to one of the greatest stars of the American screen.

[@multipizzaz]

Beautiful Icon. No one will ever duplicate this magnificent actress!!

[@TheGardner22]

what an actress, what a woman

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

That was a great tribute to a fascinating INCREDIBLE movie star. Imagine - from silent film stardom to the 70's. Truly incredible...

[@hoosierdaddyinsfca]

Madonna's "Hollywood" is the perfect song for this compilation! Long live the imagine of old "Hollywood"!

[@Cmc995]

She was her most Beautifal 1930-1933 and 1937-1942 as well

[@marieelena]

You forgot the Night Gallery pilot,1969,when she played a blind,super rich woman who got her eyesight for a few hours...the episode was called "eyes", and Joan's performance was excellent!

[@shanecincy]

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

[@safeinmyheart1]

Love this! 💕

[@darlinkula1]

at 1:26 the "Dancing Lady" clip is pure hollywod glamour. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS FABULOUS VIDEO SHANECINCY !

[@StellaDallas1970]

Joan Crawford had something very unique. Her eyes were so, so extraordinarily expressive... They spoke many languages... I guess it was not any easy to male actors to have a scene with her. She seemed always so much clever and domineering....With exception of Gable, they should feel a lot intimitaded!! She was always so self-confident .... amazing! Besides, she had an irresistible sex appeal. So sensual, so attractive, especially in those movies of the 30's .

[@maleficentdiva]

I LOVE JOAN CRAWFORD!!!!!

[@CarlD2]

This is wonderful. It may be a cliche to say we don't have movie stars anymore, but it's true. Everyone is so drab and you don't see the huge evolution of style and taste and culture that you see in these clips. Women like Crawford knew how to adapt themselves exhaustively for each new era. It's a time capsule. I especially loved that Ice Follies clip, or as she called it, "trash."

[@jessicadavis9177]

what a career!!! great tune too. thanx!

[@theblueangel28]

I agree, out of all the films in all the decades, that is my very favorite

[@fiodordostievski3287]

Love icon queen

[@BLUEOHIO]

Joan was very beautiful and Hollywood queen as did Bette Davis both the best Hollywood ever saw!!!

[@hisluckienstar614]

she had beautiful eyes.

[@flenif2247]

What a face..and talent!

[@theblueangel28]

I love it. I love her career. best collection of movies form any artist. she was a master. the best..love love love this commemoration...thank you for sharing!

[@Cmc995]

@matt1corey What Madonna put out,really fits Joan's image,songs like 'Deeper and Deeper' and 'Vogue' really suit her

[@theblueangel28]

That is in my opinion the greatest body of work ever put on film. She had consistently great movies, in genres she understood perfectly how to interpret, and change flawlessly with the decades. Rain-my alltime favorite Possessed-'31 i think best she ever looked Possessed '47- her best performance Grand Hotel- greatest classic she made Mildred Pierce- iconic, and influential masterpiece of Noir Esther Costello, Sudden Fear, and Female/Beach- do it for me best video ever made, thanks shane!

[@srosenauer]

The movie with Fred Astaire was his first perforrmance on film.

[@bancroftss]

the most beautiful and talented woman i have ever seen💞

[@marienoreene]

wow... this is great... i love it... thanks for sharing...

[@thunderheights]

does anyone know what happened to the video of Humoresque with nothing else matters playing in the background it was awesome

[@akgypsy54]

Superb job on the scenes selected and most of all the title and year of each movie!! Great selection of music as well! Perfecto! Joan is immortalized in this one!! Thank you so much!!

[@rondoletti64]

yes, very well done.....thank you some of the early ones i'd forgotten about.

[@Andremedia]

Thanks for the compilation!

[@1PartAngel]

Awesome job!

[@forestkaat]

One of the greatest glamour stars from the golden days of Hollywood. Was she a great actress? Maybe, maybe not, but you can't deny that she owned that camera when it was on her. Like Gloria Swanson, she had that intensiity you couldn't ignore. Of course, both of them were to use their faces during the silent era. Bette Davis had her own way of owning the camera, too, but with Joan, it was riveting. We have great actresses today, but not true stars - not like Joan, or Lana, or Katherine, etc....

[@artsyheartsy]

EXCELLENT! My new favorite!

[@calvertvaux5061]

Agreed. I think she was absolutely stunning in the early 1930s. She even looked good as a blonde.

[@megaswenson]

Fantastic video. And that song really captures the mood and (and the recurrent tragedy) of Hollywood.

[@wyomingadventures]

Great MADONNA song for this video makes even better 🙂👍

[@xxcharmed1xx]

I totally agree with you! Very stunning! I only wish she would have kept that same look into her later years :)

[@ariascan2]

Great video! I like to see her evolution from the flapper girl from the twenties, the working girl with social ambition in the thirties, the lady of the melodrama in the forties, her tougher side in the film noir from the fifties and her terror movies from the sixties.

[@miltsar]

YES !!!!!!!!

[@YooTuba]

Fun to watch! Thanks

[@jessicadavis9177]

this is great!!!

[@rdo1231]

well done, this was....thank you (lovely)

[@thunderheights]

Insanely great video!!!

[@SilentMovieFiend]

I usually hate modern music to old film footage, but I kinda dig it! I love my Madonna & my Crawford =

[@artsyheartsy]

AWESOME video! I love it!

[@MrCWells3000]

I'm sorry, I totally disagree with "4720d". I think the music that you chose is PERFECT- not only for the montage, but also for the subject herself, Joan Crawford. Perhaps more than almost anyone else, JC embodied the relentless drive and ambition that it takes to jump into the shark pool that is Hollywood and then claw your way to the top, and this song captures that emotion. I understood right away why you selected the song, and it was an inspired choice. Great job!

Perfect song for this! thank you.

[@Universal_Pig]

She was amazing in 'The Women' - that role was made for her!

[@launwatch]

@CarlD2 I agree. Putting on a dress & fawning over paparazzi on a red carpet doesn't make you a Star. Joan & her ilk had presence. Today's lot are a watered down, pitiful lot.

[@aelievense]

In makeup looks a thinner eyebrow makes a face look more mature or "older" and a thicker eyebrow makes a face look younger. It makes sense that she wanted to look more mature as a young woman and younger as an older woman hence her eyebrow style choice.

[@MariaFernanda-dr7pv]

put moree videos of Joan

[@themacfan]

I have a Short video clip (circa 1930 ) with Joan and many another Hollywood stars of that time , where they all play themselves.

[@alanlawrence5398]

She played mad arced bitches on wheels really well... To fucking well!

[@Khloe_dancer_model]

LOVE the video..but I had to mute it.Is all good.Good job =)

[@AyeshaFaines]

Big Difference beginning in 1931 circa Posessed, different make up techniques?

[@jeffeastwood15]

At some point early in her career she had her back teeth removed to change the shape of her jaw.

[@darthstarkiller1912]

I saw scenes of "Mommie Dearest" and I wish I wasn't confused. Was she the abusive adoptive mother she was seen in the movie, or was she a kind and proud actress most people see her as? I wish I knew what was the truth.

[@tayler7441]

Just remember that it was a MOVIE. That movie was based on a book by one of her children. At least two of Joan's other children, a former husband, and lots of friends said it was all lies.

[@chowbok]

I was wondering exactly when Joan Crawford went from a cute flapper to a hideous wildebeest... looks like the transformation started around 1931 and was done by 1938.

[@Shavon84]

great actress however i still would be scared of her! Her eyebrows freaks me out......

[@gulmerton2394]

At 2:32 in A Woman’s face, one can see she’s practicing her beating for Christina and Christopher.

[@bancroftss]

cara já saturou ficar falando disso

[@thatsmisterrobert2u]

"...hideous wildebeest..." OMG!!!!

[@gulmerton2394]

She was definitely not a dancer. No grace. Better actress thank god.

[@Firespawnable]

Joan Crawford was a GREAT dancer! That's how they danced back in the 20s and 30s and Joan Crawford was a known for being one of the most popular flapper girl dancers.

[@maggiemae7539]

@@Firespawnable a horse danced better than her! Quit! Stop taking up for that drag!

[@roystonmason9125]

@@maggiemae7539 she was a famous flapper ! silly

[@bancroftss]

a mulher era tão talentosa, que além de atuar incrivelmente bem cantava, dançava,foi empresária, e nas horas vagas pintava e fazia poema... pouco né?😞✊

[@bancroftss]

@@maggiemae7539 amiga se preserve, ninguém é obrigado a gostar dela.. mas não precisa falar que ela não tinha talento sendo que está na cara que ela tinha, apenas se retire do vídeo e pare de passar vergonha

[@coon694u]

you did a great job here! Loved the music!

[@actresssasha]

Love this tribute! Thanks for making it!