Vintage 8x10-inch publicity portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen in the early 1940s. Some rust stains from picture frame tacks to the corners of the border; otherwise, in fine condition for its age. Electrifying Hollywood icon Joan Crawford nabbed an Academy Award for Mildred Pierce (1945), and was nominated twice more, for Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952). Her wonderful body of work also included Rain (1932), Grand Hotel (1932), The Women (1939), The Gorgeous Hussy (1946), Humoresque (1946), Johnny Guitar (1956), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), and the cult horror flick Strait-Jacket (1964).

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