ACTOR

Joan Crawford

1904 - 1977

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Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Crawford has received more than 17,780,075 page views. Her biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Joan Crawford is the 337th most popular actor (down from 240th in 2019), the 623rd most popular biography from United States (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Actor.

Joan Crawford is most famous for her acting career which spanned over 50 years. She was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s and won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1945 for her role in Mildred Pierce.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Joan Crawfords by language

Over the past year Joan Crawford has had the most page views in the with 2,063,905 views, followed by Spanish (147,766), and German (81,872). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bosnian (28,300.00%), Simple English (261.17%), and Lithuanian (200.00%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joan Crawford ranks 337 out of 13,578. Before her are Lola Montez, Matthew Perry, Val Kilmer, Martin Landau, Cary Grant, and Charles Dance. After her are Oona O'Neill, Robert Hossein, Penélope Cruz, Harold Ramis, David Niven, and Chris Hemsworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Joan Crawford ranks 26. Before her are Pavel Cherenkov, Hans Albert Einstein, Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, Glenn Miller, and Cary Grant. After her are Luis Carrero Blanco, Witold Gombrowicz, John Hicks, Werner Forssmann, Antonín Novotný, and Dmitry Kabalevsky. Among people deceased in 1977, Joan Crawford ranks 19. Before her are Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Makarios III, Alexey Stakhanov, Kurt Schuschnigg, Anaïs Nin, and Ernst Bloch. After her are Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Clarice Lispector, Andreas Baader, Archibald Hill, Howard Hawks, and Bing Crosby.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Crawford ranks 623 out of 20,380. Before her are Albert Pike (1809), Ruth Benedict (1887), John Irving (1942), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), George E. Smith (1930), and Isaac Singer (1811). After her are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Sylvia Earle (1935), William Friedkin (1935), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Harold Ramis (1944), and Whoopi Goldberg (1955).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joan Crawford ranks 170. Before her are Goldie Hawn (1945), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971), Telly Savalas (1922), Matthew Perry (1969), Val Kilmer (1959), and Martin Landau (1928). After her are Harold Ramis (1944), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Richard Kiel (1939), Richard Chamberlain (1934), Gene Wilder (1933), and Jeff Goldblum (1952).

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Television and Movie Roles

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Blanche Hudson
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Oct 12o 19627.9 / 10
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Oct 20o 19457.6 / 10
Johnny Guitar
Vienna
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
May 26o 19547.385 / 10