Trivia

- Joan is sometimes credited as Billie Cassin and Lucille Le Sueur.

- An agent at MGM asked her to drop her surname as it sounded to much like 'sewer'.

- Each time Crawford married, she changed the name of her Brentwood estate and installed new toilet seats.

- She was dedicated to her fans, and would personally reply to fan mail.

- When she died the only photographs she had on display in her apartment were of Barbara Stanwyck and the late President John F. Kennedy.

- She was slightly obssessive in her cleanliness and would clean anything a guest would touch.

 
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