Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wyandotte Cave, located in southern Indiana's Crawford County, is a limestone cavern with five levels of passage. Its "Monumental Mountain," which is about 135 feet high, is believed to be one of the world's largest underground "mountains...
...customs of stardom clung to her even after death. In the obituaries of Joan Crawford, who died of a heart attack last week, some newspapers felt compelled to note a certain confusion about her age. Officially it was listed as 69, but she may have been several years older. It was characteristic of her that at a time of life when two or three years no longer make any difference to most people, Joan Crawford insisted on the smallest believable number...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
...Joan Crawford was never a widely beloved star, but like many of the women she played, she survived in a tough, male-dominated world. Over the years people came to respect her tenacity. Meeting her, they were always surprised to discover that she was smaller (5 ft. 3 in.) than she seemed onscreen. But the fire and discipline were always there, the source of her singularity...
Died. Joan Crawford, seventyish, strong-willed actress who rose from cho rus girl to grande dame of the screen; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see SHOW BUSINESS...