But she showed them with her comeback movie, "Mildred Pierce." STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When she was nominated for Best Actress, Crawford was so nervous, she skipped the Academy Award ceremony. Last night, her Oscar for "Mildred Pierce" sold at auction for $426,000.
Did anyone win an Oscar for whatever happened to Baby Jane?
It was nominated for five Academy Awards and won one for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, with Davis receiving her tenth and final nomination for Best Actress. The alleged bitter Hollywood rivalry between the film's two stars, Davis and Crawford, was pivotal to the film's initial success.
Throughout her film career, Crawford starred in a total of 81 films and was nominated for two Academy Awards. In 1945, Crawford won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Mildred Pierce.
She left $77,500 each to her two younger daughters, Cathy and Cynthia. She also bequeathed money to several other people and numerous charities. Cathy also inherited all of Joan's property including the Oscar for Mildred Pierce.
Crawford won the Best Actress Academy Award for Mildred Pierce in 1945. She made many more movies, but retired in 1970. She died in New York City of a heart attack.
What happened to Joan Crawford's son and daughter?
According to many sources, Christopher died in 2006 at 62, Cindy in 2007 at 60, and Cathy in 2020 at 73. The only Crawford's daughter still alive is Christina.
How much money did Joan Crawford leave Christina Crawford?
Crawford left about $2 million in her will. On October 28, 1976, less than a year before her death, she had made a new will. She left a trust fund of $77,500 to each of her adopted twin daughters, $35,000 to her longtime friend and secretary, Betty Barker, and smaller bequests to a few other people.
Christina has repeatedly stated that the film is highly inaccurate, and that the portrayal of her mother in the film is nothing like the real Joan Crawford, emphasizing that she never wrote in her book that Joan chopped down a tree with an axe, or beat her with a wire hanger as depicted in the film.
Crawford was so effective as the face of the brand that, even after Steele died in 1959, Pepsi paid her $50,000 a year to make promotional appearances on behalf of the company, until she turned 65.
Even though she had had four husbands — actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Franchot Tone, and Phillip Terry and Pepsi-Cola president Alfred Steele — and many lovers, Crawford was always close to Clark Gable.
A funeral was held at Campbell Funeral Home, New York, on May 13, 1977. In her will, which had been signed on October 28, 1976, Crawford bequeathed to her two youngest children, Cindy and Cathy, $77,500 each from her $2 million estate.
At the age of 75, Bette had a mastectomy due to breast cancer. Nine days later, she suffered a stroke. Despite her failing health, she continued to act until her death. Bette passed away October 6, 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
How old was Joan Crawford when she filmed What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Aldrich's 1962 Hollywood adaptation of Henry Farrell's gothic novel would star Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, both then in their mid 50s, as quarrelling sisters, confined to the living tomb of a Los Angeles mansion that's filled with skeletons and a noxious resentment that lingers in the air.
In truth, it remained in Joan's possession for about a month due to conflicting schedules. When Anne was presented with her prize, the event was well-covered by contemporary publications.
1936: According to the US Treasury Dept., Joan earned $302,307. (Thanks to Norman for the 1936 and 1937 info.) 1962: Her Baby Jane deal gave her $30,000 plus 15% of producers' net (JCB says $40,000 and 10% of net), which earned her nearly $1 million.
The three-time Oscar nominee tells the magazine how she thought the memorable role was going to be a "window into a tortured soul," but in the end, she found it to be very different, even harmful to her career.
Cindy Crawford the model, is not one of Joan Crawford's twins. She was born in 1966. Joan Crawford's twins were born almost 20 years earlier in 1947. Joan's daughter Cindy died in 2007, and her twin Cathy died recently in 2020.
Did Christina Crawford like the movie Mommie Dearest?
Mommie Dearest became a best-seller, and was made into the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. Christina had no involvement with the making of the film, and has categorically denounced the film as "grotesque" and a work of fiction.
Crawford died on May 10, 1977, following a fatal heart attack in her New York apartment. Though historically unknown, her age at the time of her death was 69 years old.
What happened to Christina Joan Crawford's daughter?
It was later revealed that Christina was adopted by Joan Crawford through a black market baby ring. Suffered a major stroke in 1981, from which she has fully recovered. When Christina began her acting career, her mother asked her to change her last name so it wouldn't look like she was using the name to her advantage.
Along with the trust fund Cathy also inherited all of Joan's property including the 1946 Oscar for Mildred Pierce. In 1993, Cathy sold Joan's Academy Award at auction for $426,732. Joan gave instructions that she was to be cremated, and her ashes placed in an urn, next to her last husband, Alfred Steele.
Joan Crawford also had an adopted daughter named Cindy (short for Cynthia), which further created confusion about the relationship between the model and the actress. However, Cynthia and her twin, Catherine, were born in 1947.
She made such a positive impression during her early film career that MGM head Louis B. Mayer launched a fan-magazine contest to find her a new name. The result was "Joan Crawford," a name she claimed she never liked. Her career with MGM stretched from 1925 to 1942, and she became one of that company's biggest stars.
