Who was Joan Crawford married to?

Joan Crawford was an American actress.

Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Joan Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925.

Joan Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success.

These “rags-to-riches” stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women.

Joan Crawford became one of Hollywood’s most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled “box office poison”.

After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Who was Joan Crawford married to?

In 1955, Joan Crawford became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele.

After his death in 1959, Joan Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973.

Joan Crawford then continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s.

However, after the release of the horror film Trog in 1970, Joan Crawford retired from the screen.