Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr
David Bret, . . Carroll & Graf, $25.95 (299pp) ISBN 978-0-78671-868-9
Bret, who has written several celebrity bios, details Joan Crawford's rags-to-riches story in this able biography. Born Lucille LeSueur in 1905, Crawford lived a hardscrabble life in the Midwest; as the product of a Dickensian childhood, she slept her way to the top. She became a taxi dancer who turned tricks; discovered by an MGM talent scout at age 20, she headed to Hollywood. From silents to talkies, in a career that spanned from 1925 to 1970, Crawford, glamorous and vulnerable, became a gay icon and hero to working-class women in films like
Reviewed on: 11/06/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
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