Joan Crawford
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🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190?[Note 1] – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. 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. 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. By the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison".
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| 0:00.0 | And then I run up to the giant boom instantly killed so I mean you had to know that was going to happen |
| 0:06.9 | Why would I know that was going to happen? |
| 0:09.1 | She's like, have you ever played a fun video game? Apparently not |
| 0:13.4 | And that's what she just takes off my brother and I are just standing there as this giant turtle comes out of the water after us |
| 0:20.3 | So good buddy. That's so so fun |
| 0:23.5 | Hey guys, what are you talking about? Oh? |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, hey, no, he's so finally, I was just telling some hilarious mom stories, you know |
| 0:32.4 | You were yeah, I figured since this week's episode is about adorable prank mom Joan Crawford |
| 0:38.6 | I should just like whip out a few stories of my own. Hey, did I tell you guys about the time she left me in a fire? |
| 0:44.4 | I know I have not heard that one. Oh |
| 0:48.0 | Man, that was after she already killed her monkey, but yeah, okay, so there's that there's the time |
| 0:52.6 | She threw out all of my baby pictures, and I was just telling the guys about the snapping turtle into it |
| 0:57.2 | That was a really dumb. You know that |
| 1:00.1 | Joan Crawford wasn't like funny, right? |
| 1:03.8 | Like she's best known for being a terrible and abusive mother |
| 1:09.1 | No, what are you talking about? You knew half the stuff my mom did |
| 1:15.9 | You know what you're you're right. I must have not gotten a joke |
| 1:22.0 | This guy |
| 1:23.8 | Okay, have you heard the one about when she dropped me off at my dad's without telling me |
| 1:29.0 | No, man, I haven't |
| 1:31.3 | I heard that one either. Oh, it's a doozy gonna love this one doozy |
| 1:35.0 | doozy sure yep |
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