조앤 크로퍼드

소개

조앤 크로퍼드(영어: Joan Crawford, 본명: 루실 페이 러슈어, 본명 영어: Lucille Fay LeSueur, 1904년에서 1908년 3월 23일 ~ 1977년 3월 10일)는 미국의 배우이다. 브로드웨이에 데뷔 전 극장 회사에서 댄서로 시작한 크로퍼드는 1925년 메트로 골드윈 메이어와 영화 계약하였다. 초년에는 1920년대 재즈 시대의 쾌활한 왈가닥 소녀로 강한 인상을 주었으며 후기에는 심리적 멜로드라마의 스타로 발돋움했다. 이후 육체파 배우로 성장했으며, 호화로운 드레스에 모피를 두른 직업적으로 성공한 여인 역으로 종종 등장했다.

Joan Crawford was an American actress. She began 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 roles, 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 manage to 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".