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Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

Joan Crawford

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Joan Crawford
Age: 73 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: May 10
Actor
Businessperson
Dancer
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Military City
USA
Lucille Fay LeSueur
Lucille LeSueur
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Irving
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Mayer
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While making Possessed, I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.
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all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
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