Cast: Joan Crawford

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Joan Crawford · Victor Buono · Wesley Addy

Synopsis What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) follows the chilling tale of two aging sisters, former Hollywood stars, living in isolation. Jane, a once-famous child performer, cares for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche, a former movie star whose career eclipsed Jane's....

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Joan Crawford · Sterling Hayden · Scott Brady · Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis In Johnny Guitar (1954), a strong-willed saloon owner named Vienna faces hostility from a vengeful townsfolk led by the ruthless Emma. When a mysterious stranger, Johnny Guitar, arrives—a former lover with a hidden past—tensions escalate. Accused of harboring an outlaw...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Joan Crawford · Norman Kerry · Nick de Ruiz

Synopsis Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter. In reality, Alonzo is a perfectly armed thief, with the unique distinction of...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Synopsis A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and a ferret-faced new husband (Zachary Scott).

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery

Synopsis Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying...

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Palance · Gloria Grahame · Bruce Bennett

Synopsis Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland

Synopsis Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Joan Crawford · Oscar Levant · John Garfield · Joan Chandler

Synopsis Helen Wright, a neurotic society woman, sets her sights on ambitious young violinist Paul Boray, who returns her love, but is undeterred from his music. She becomes his patroness, helping him to great success, but cannot abide being of secondary...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Joan Crawford · Melvyn Douglas · Conrad Veidt · Osa Massen

Synopsis Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope of starting a new life, and a return...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Joan Crawford · David Brian · Steve Cochran · Kent Smith

Synopsis The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Joan Crawford · Raymond Massey · Van Heflin · Geraldine Brooks

Synopsis A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David and the complex story...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Joan Crawford · Dana Andrews · Henry Fonda · Ruth Warrick

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Joan Crawford · Margaret Sullavan · Robert Young · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis Olivia (Crawford), a New York nightclub dancer, tires of the fast life and marries Henry Linden (Douglas), a farmer. When Olivia moves to her new husband's farm, in Wisconsin, she encounters trouble from his domineering sister-in-law Hannah (Bainter) and his...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · David Brian · Sydney Greenstreet · Zachary Scott

Synopsis A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Joan Crawford · Wendell Corey · Lucile Watson · Allyn Joslyn

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Wallace Ford · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Synopsis Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Joan Crawford · Edwards Davis · Tom Murray

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Gene Raymond · Franchot Tone · Edward Arnold

Synopsis The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family. Lawyer Michael Alderson likes Sadie but she runs off to New York City with boyfriend Tommy...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Joan Crawford · Cliff Robertson · Vera Miles · Lorne Greene

Synopsis Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before, of his first wife Virginia in the arms of his...