Thursday, August 10,1937
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5-Minute Biographies
- Author of "How to Win Friend*
and Influence Peoplem
JOAN CRAWFORD
Cinderella Danced Her Way to Hollywood—
And Dieted Her Way to Beauty
A dozen years ago a little col
lege girl in Missouri used to cry
herself to sleep at night. In those
days, she cried because she was
lonesome. But today, excited
crowds surge about her whenever
she appears in public, and her
face and name are known by
countless millions of people on
every continent washed by the
seven seas.
A dozen years ago, this girl
waited on the tables at Stephens
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College in order to pay for her
board; and she was so poor that
she borrowed fifty cents now and
then from the night watchman.
She couldn't go out to a party
even if she got an invitation, be
cause she had nothing to wear
but the cast-off clothing other
girls had given her. Today she is
one of the best-dressed women in
Hollywood. Today her clothes
are so smart, so chic, that she
creates vogues, and her gowns are
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eagerly copied by women all over
the world. Dressmakers beg her
to make their fortunes by wearing
one of their latest creations in
pur Uc.
"Who was this lonesome, miser
able, unhappy little girl—so poor
she couldn't afford to iouy herself
a dress. Her name was Lucille
LeSueur.r Never heard of her?
Well, that's her real name; but in
Hollywood, she is known as Joan
Crawford.
Joan Crawford is the tops now.
But she knows what it is to be
stranded in a strange town with
out a dime. She knows what it is
to be hungry and not have a nick
el to buy food. She knows what
it means to battle her way
through years of heartache and
unending struggle. As a child in
Lawton, Oklahoma, Joan Craw
ford spent most of her time rac
ing around the neighborhood
playing marbles and skinning
the-cat with the boys. But the
greatest thrill of all was acting.
She and her playmates took some
old empty boxes out to the barn
and made a stage out of them.
They lighted a lantern to give the
effect of footlights; and there
with the horses and pigeons and
English sparrows for her audience,
Joan Crawford began her amaz
ing career.
She determnied then and there
that some day she would be an
actress and a lady and wear fine
clothes. She promised herself
that when she grew up, she would
wear a red velvet gown with gold
slippers, and an enormous hat
with ostrich plumes.
When Joan was eight years
old, her mother moved to Kansas
City, and put Joan in a convent
in Kansas City where she had to
work for her board. No more ex
citing races with the boys now.
No more acting in the old barn.
In return for her board, she had
to help clean fourteen rooms,
cook and wash dishes for twenty
five children, besides undressing
them and putting them to bed.
She wore blue and white calico
dresses and slept in one of a long
row of iron beds.
Six years later, she decided to
take a flyer in higher education;
so she enrolled as a student in
Stephens College at Columbia,
Missouri. Money? She didn't have
any money. As I have already
said, she wore the cast-off clothes
that the other girls gave her and
she worked as a waitress in order
to get board and room. Some of
the girls who snubbed and high
hatted her in those days because
she had to work as a waitress now
say: "Joan Crawford? Oh, yes, I
know her well. We are very dear
friends. We used to go to college
together." '
Her burning ambition then was
to become a dancer. So when she
was offered a job dancing with a
road show for twenty dollars a
week, she grabbed it, and felt she
was tiptoeing on the edge of para
dise. Two weeks later, the show
closed. There was no money to
pay salaries, and she was left
broke and stranded in a strange
town.
Did that kill her determination
to go on the stage? Never! She
borrowed money, got back to
Kansas City, worked, saved her
pennies, and boarded a Santa Fe
train one morning headed for
Chicago. After paying for her
ticket she had only two dollars
left. She was afraid to spend
that—so she missed a couple of
meals that day.
She got a job dancing in a cab
aret; then she came to New York
and danced at the Winter Garden
as a chorus girl. A movie scout
for the M.G.M. studios saw her
dance in The Passing Show. She
had grace, rhythm, youth, person
ality and a beautiful pair of legs.
He suggested that she take a
screen test.
"What? The movies? Oh, no!"
She aspired to be the Pavlova of
Broadway. Finally, after much
arguing she condescended to take
a screen test and was handed a
ticket for Hollywood and a con
tract for seventy-five dollars per
week. But Hollywood turned
thumbs down on her name. Lu
cille LeSueur? Poetical—yes. But
disastrous for a movie actress.
Nobody could remember it or pro
nounce it. So a movie magazine
staged a contest, offered prizes,
and names came pouring in by
the thousand in every mail. As
a result of that contest, "Lucille
LeSueur became Joan Crawford.
But she was still far from be
ing a star. She played bits, acted
as an extra, doubled for Norma
Shearer. And at night she
danced; the Charleston, the
Black Bottom, the St. Louis Hop.
She wore out dozens of pairs of
shoes in contests —and won doz
ens of loving cups.
She settled down to a routine
of hard, serious study: French,
English and singing. She began
to, reduce, and for three years,
she was constantly hungry. She
rarely has anything for breakfast
now except a glass of water flav
ored with a dash of orange juice.
Often, she touches nothing but a
little buttermilk all day. She
worked hard, and began to be
given better parts. In one picture,
when her role called for an
apache dance, she fell and broke
her ankle. But she was so afraid
she would lose the part that she
had the doctor tape up her leg
and foot, and continued with the
picture.
Joan Crawford says that she
herself is astonished at what has
happened to her. She was bom
in poverty and now has every
luxury that wealth can buy.
She was born without position
and she is now surrounded by
mobs of admirers wherever she
goes.
She was born without beauty—
and is now one of the most beau
tiful women on the screen.
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The old man dozed off in his
rig, leaving the horse to take care
of itself. He woke up suddenly to
find himself in the ditch.
Crawling out of the buggy, he
went up and grabbed the horse
by the bridle. "Say," he said, "you
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