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03438aam a2200397 i 4500 001 7A4BE17E9E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231219010058 008 230328t20232023msua bq 001 0beng 010 $a 2023014319 020 $a 1496846516 020 $a 9781496846518 035 $a (OCoLC)1378374211 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TOH $d OCLCF $d NYP $d OCLCO $d IND $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN2287.C67 $b D36 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20230711 100 1 $a Dance, Robert, $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a Ferocious ambition : $b Joan Crawford's march to stardom / $c Robert Dance. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2023] 300 $a ix, 334 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 27 cm 520 $a "Robert Dance's new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and-while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life-focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and as a woman who mastered the studio system with a rare combination of grit, determination, beauty, and talent. Crawford's remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry's longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford's risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. In her fourth decade she teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, proving that Crawford, whose career had begun by defining big-screen glamor, had matured into a superb dramatic actress. Her last film was released in 1970, and two years later she made a final television appearance, forty-seven years after walking through the MGM gate for the first time. Crawford made a successful transition into business during her later years, notably in her long association with Pepsi-Cola as a board member and the brand's leading ambassador. Overlooked in previous biographies has been Crawford's fierce resolve in creating and then maintaining her star persona. She let neither her age nor the passing of time block her unrivaled ambition, and she continually reimagined herself, noting once that, for the right part, she would play Wally Beery's grandmother. But she was always the consummate star, and at the time of her death in 1977, she was a motion picture legend and a twentieth-century icon"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312 and 317-319), filmography (pages 313-216) and index. 600 10 $a Crawford, Joan, $d 1908-1977. 600 17 $a Crawford, Joan, $d 1908-1977 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00049125 650 0 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027096 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 776 08 $i Online version: $a Dance, Robert. $t Ferocious ambition $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023 $z 9781496847478 $w (DLC) 2023014320 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219013137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A4BE17E9E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search