See soorce fer Joan Crawford

{{Infobox person
 | name             = Joan Crawford
 | image            = Joan Crawford - 1936 - Hurrell.JPG
 | caption          = in 1936 photo bi [[George Hurrell]]
 | birth_name       = Lucille Fay LeSueur
 | birth_date       =  
 | birth_place      = [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], U.S.
 | death_date       = Mey 10, 1977 (aged 73)
 | death_place      = [[Manhattan]], New York Ceety, U.S.
 | resting_place    = [[Ferncliff Seemetry]], [[Hartsdale, New York]], U.S.
 | occupation       = Actress, dancer, business executive
 | years_active     = 1925–1972
 | spouse           = {{unbulleted list
                       | {{marriage|[[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]]<br>|1929|1933|reason=divorced}}
                       | {{marriage|[[Franchot Tone]]<br>|1935|1939|reason=divorced}}
                       | {{marriage|[[Phillip Terry]]<br>|1942|1946|reason=divorced}}
                       | {{marriage|[[Alfred Steele]]<br>|1955|1959|reason=d.}}
                      }}
 | children         = 4, includin [[Christina Crawford]]
 | parents          = Thomas E. LeSueur<br>Anna Bell Johnson
 | relatives        = [[Hal LeSueur]] <small>(brither)</small>
 | signature        = Joan Crawford Signature.svg
}}
'''Joan Crawford''' (born '''Lucille Fay LeSueur'''; (Mairch 23, 190?{{refn|name=birthyear|group=Note|Crawford's year o birth is uncertain as various soorces claim 1904, 1905, 1906 an 1908.<ref>{{cite book|author=Time Magazine|title=LIFE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0gEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45|date=June 23, 1947|publisher=Time-Life Inc|page=45|issn=0024-3019|quote=(Originally appeared in Life, June 23, 1947) The year of Miss Crawford's birth has been variously identified as 1904, 1906, 1908 and 1909, the last being her own favorite..}}</ref> The 1910 census gae her age in Apryle 1910 as five year auld.<ref>[http://www.myheritage.com/research?formId=census-us-1&formMode=&action=query&exactSearch=0&useTranslation=0&colId=10132&qname=Name+ln.Casson&qlivedin=Event+et.livedin+ep.Comanche%2C%2F3Oklahoma 1910 United States Federal Census] Lrsesil Casson Birth:Circa 1905.  Myheritage.com (1910 U.S. Federal Census Records)</ref> Crawford hersel claimed 1908 (the date on her lair-stane),<ref name="Wilson2016">{{cite book|author=Scott Wilson|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA165|year=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2599-7|page=165|quote=Crawford, Joan (Lucille LeSueur, March 23, 1904–May 10, 1977) San Antonio born film star.... Her ashes were placed in the vault beside the coffin of her husband, with the crypt listing her birth year as 1908.}}</ref> but maist modren biographers cite 1904 as the maist likely year.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lawrence J. Quirk|author2=William Schoell|title=Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yQtRavDvtUC&pg=PA1|year=2002|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-2254-0|page=1|quote=On March 23, 1904, in San Antonio, Texas, Anna Bell Johnson LeSueur gave birth to a little girl, whom she and her husband, Thomas, named Lucille Fay. Lucille was the couple's third child; another daughter, Daisy, had died in infancy, and Lucille's brother, Hal, had been born the previous year. (Many years later, when little Lucille was the famous woman known to the world as Joan Crawford, the year of her birth would mysteriously change to 1906 or 1908.)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas S. Hischak|title=The Oxford Companion to the American Musical:Theatre, Film, and Television: Theatre, Film, and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XbBz3C4Gr0EC&pg=PA174|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533533-0|page=174|quote=Crawford, Joan [born Lucille Fay LeSueur] (1904-1977)}}</ref><ref name="Bret2009b">{{cite book|author=David Bret|title=Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfjCtf9scpUC&pg=PT8|year=2009|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-7867-3236-4|page=8|quote=She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur, most likely on 23 March 1904 (though she always maintained it was 1908, when birth certificates became state mandatroy...)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Knowles|title=The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances: Outrage at Couple Dancing in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAzP__xv7CkC&pg=PA233|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3708-5|page=233|quote=Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas on March 23, 1904. (After she was famous, the date of her birth mysteriously changed to 1906 or 1908)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Liz Sonneborn|title=A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yf2741A_BkYC&pg=PA43|year=2002|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0790-5|page=43|quote=Joan Crawford  was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, on March 23, 1904.)}}</ref><ref name="Cowie2009">{{cite book|author=Peter Cowie|title=Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star|url=https://archive.org/details/joancrawfordendu0000cowi|year=2009|publisher=University of Michigan|isbn=978-0-8478-3066-4|quote= On March 23, 1908, by her own reckoning (although the real date may have been 1905, or even 1904), Lucille Fay LeSueur was born ...}}</ref><ref name="Uglow1991">{{cite book|author=Jennifer Uglow|title=Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m86vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140|year=1991|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-349-12704-7|page=140|quote=Crawford, Joan [stage name of Lucille Fay Le Suent] (1904–77).....}}</ref><ref name="Adamson1999">{{cite book|author=Lynda G. Adamson|title=Notable Women in American History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies|url=https://archive.org/details/notablewomeninam0000adam|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-29584-3|quote=CRAWFORD, JOAN (1904-1977) Actor San Antonio, Texas Joan Crawford was an award-winning actor....}}</ref><ref name="Alleman2013">{{cite book|author=Richard Alleman|title=New York:  The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_0Z5SxTKLkC&pg=PA476|year=2013|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-8041-3778-2|page=476|quote=Joan was born in 1904, and according to one Hollywood contemporary who knew Joan when, it was really closer to 1901.. }}</ref>

Crawford's dauchter Christina, in the biografie ''[[Mommie Dearest]]'' ([[1978 in literature|1978]]), states "1904" twice:<blockquote>"Publicly her birth date was reported as March 23, 1908, but Grandmother told me that she was actually born in 1904."<ref name="Dearest">{{cite book|author=Christina Crawford|title=Mommie Dearest|url=https://archive.org/details/mommiedearest00craw|year=1979|publisher=Berkley|isbn=978-0-425-04444-5}}</ref>{{rp|20}}</blockquote><blockquote>"My mother was born Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, in 1904, although when she came to Hollywood she lied about her age and changed the year to 1908."<ref name="Dearest"/>{{rp|66}}</blockquote>}} – Mey 10, 1977) wis an American film an telly actress wha begoud her career as a dancer an stage [[shawgirl]]. In 1999, the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Crawford tent on its leet o the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars|greatest female starns o Clessic Hollywood Cinema]].

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