AUTHENTIC 1930S MGM DOOR TAG JOAN CRAWFORD For Sale

AN ORIGINAL STUDIO/SET USED DOOR TAG (OR A CHAIR TAG AS THECURATOR OF A MOVIE MUSEUM SUGGESTED)FOR JOAN CRAWFORD THE 1930S AT MGM.
PROVENANCE: THESE WERE PURCHASED FROM AN ELDERLY LADY IN FLORIDA YEARS AGO. SHE WAS HAVING A YARD SALE AND MENTIONED SHE HAD SOMETHING NEAT SHE WANTED TO SELL.
SHE BROUGHT OUT A BUCKET OF THESE TAGS WITH MANY DIFFERENT MGM STARS NAMES LISTED ON THEM. SHE SAID HER FATHER HAD WORKED ON SETS FOR MGM DURING THE 30\'S AND WHEN A SET CHANGED OUT HE WOULD SAVE THESE TAGS FOR HIS DAUGHTER. SHE HAD KEPT THEM IN THE SAME BUCKET SINCE SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL.
I LISTED A FEW OF THESE SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND AN ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN ABOUT ONE AND A MUSEUM OWNER BOUGHT ONE. THIS IS ALL I KNOW OTHER THAN THEY ARE REALLY WONDERFUL THINGS FOR A MOVIE COLLECTOR!

TAG IS AROUND 3\"X1\" IN SIZE. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER TAGS FOR SALE.

Joan Crawford(bornLucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904[Note 2]– May 10, 1977) was an American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stageshowgirl. In 1999, theAmerican Film Instituteranked Crawford tenth on their list of thegreatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

Beginning her career as a dancer in travelling theatrical companies, before debuting as a chorus girl onBroadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract withMetro-Goldwyn-Mayerin 1925. In the 1930s, Crawford\'s fame rivaled, and later outlasted, MGM colleaguesNorma ShearerandGreta Garbo. Crawford often played hard-working young women who find romance and success. These stories were well received byDepression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one ofHollywood\'s most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money, and, by the end of the 1930s, she was labelled \"Box Office Poison\". But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring inMildred Pierce, for which she won theAcademy Award for Best Actress. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations forPossessed(1947) andSudden Fear(1952).

In 1955, she became involved with thePepsi-Cola Companythrough her marriage to company ChairmanAlfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer; after the release of the British horror filmTrogin 1970, Crawford retired from the screen. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life and became increasingly reclusive until her death in 1977.

Crawford married four times. Her first three marriages ended in divorce; the last ended with the death of husband Alfred Steele. She adopted five children, one of whom was reclaimed by his birth mother. Crawford\'s relationships with her two older children,Christinaand Christopher, were acrimonious. Crawford disinherited the two, and, after Crawford\'s death, Christina wrote a \"tell-all\" memoir titled,Mommie Dearest.