Joan Crawford was born around 1906 in San Antonio. An American actress, Crawford was a leading star of Hollywood for decades, beginning as a dancer and silent film actress and becoming a symbol of glamour in the 1930s. She was reinvented as a dramatic actress in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and later starred in Possessed, Sudden Fear and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, with her rival Bette Davis. She married four times, including to the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and later the chairman of Pepsi-Cola. After her death, a memoir by her adopted daughter, Mommie Dearest, damaged her public image.
Before and after
- 1906Discovery of lutetium
- 1906Establishment of Mesa Verde National Park
- 1906Founding of Torino FC
- 1906Bambatha Rebellion
- c. 1906Birth of Joan Crawford
- 7 February 1906Birth of Puyi
- 19 March 1906Birth of Adolf Eichmann
- 31 March 1906Birth of Shinichiro Tomonaga
- 13 April 1906Birth of Samuel Beckett
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