How tall was Joan Crawford

American actress, best remembered for films such as Mildred Pierce, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,Possessed, Daisy Kenyon, Sudden Fear, Johnny Guitar, The Women and Grand Hotel. From a 1925 movie weekly article/competition on 'naming a movie star', her description is given as "weighs 125 pounds, and is five feet five inches tall". She claimed 5ft 4 as her height. In a 1931 Photoplay article, it mentioned her height as 5ft 4, weight 110lbs and vital stats: 37-24.5-37. Shoe size 4D.

I'm not too thin. I'm five feet, four inches tall and I weigh 130 pounds.
-- The Morning Call, 1939

Well, I'm a big gal. I'm only five feet four and a half, but I have very wide shoulders, and they give people the impression that I'm big.

My figure was a real problem. I am five feet four, and my normal weight should be 130 pounds. When I took my first film test I weighed 149 and it was all solid muscle.

[at 17] for at this time I weighed one hundred and forty-five pounds of baby fat. I was self-conscious, unsure and my "style" was strictly dreadful. I hated my round face, I hated my freckles, my big mouth and eyes. I tried to stretch my five feet three as tall as possible, tossed my head in the air, poked my chin out, and dared people to notice me.

-- A portrait of Joan, 1964