Applause Books. Joan Crawford 1908-1977 was best known for her starring roles in The Women , Grand Hotel , Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Johnny Guitar , and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Charlotte Chandlers fascinating and intimate portrait includes interviews with Crawford her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Bette Davis and Myrna Loy, and is perhaps her finest biography yet.,
