You Must Remember This: #87: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Douglas Fairbanks / Lucille LeSueur Goes to Hollywood

August 09,2016

Karina Longworth’s award winning and acclaimed podcast series about Hollywood

In order to understand Joan Crawford’s rise to fame, we have to talk about what Joan – born Lucille LeSueur, and called “Billie Cassin” for much of her childhood – was like before she got to Hollywood, and what Hollywood was like before she got there. To accomplish the latter, we’ll focus on Douglas Fairbanks: top action star of the silent era, the definition of Hollywood royalty, and the father of Crawford’s first husband.