gregoryspeck:

The Evolution of Joan Crawford: 1912 to 1936
(Each row, going left to right)

1912: Joan Crawford is a chubby 6-year-old christened Lucille Le Sueur but known as Billie Cassin.
1915: At 9 she has corkscrews. Her Mother, divorced from her father, is married to a Mr. Cassin.
1918: She spends this year at a convent school in Kansas City. Joan is the tall girl in the rear.
1923: This is how she looks when she enters Stephens College at Columbia, Mo, stays six months.
1924: As Lucille Le Sueur she gets work in a New York chorus. This is her earliest publicity picture.
1925: Plumper now, she goes to Hollywood, spends her first year posing for MGM publicity like this.
1926: She becomes the “Charleston Queen,” wins many cups in dancing contests, loses many pounds.
1927: Playing opposite Francis X. Bushman in The Understanding Heart, she “registers suspicion,”.
1928: She poses for a publicity picture illustrating “the latest place to keep your powder and lipstick.”
1928: She reaches stardom as ideal Jazz Age girl. She is fondling the chin of Johnny Mack Brown.
1929: This is how she looks to her artistic first husband Douglas Fairbanks Jr., before the marriage.
1929: She marries Douglas Fairbanks Jr, to the delight of her fans and has her hand and footprints in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
1931: She turns blond for This Modern Age, but her fans disapprove and she goes back to brunette.
1933: She divorces Fairbanks, charging him with mental cruelty.
1936: Who should turn up but her wavy-haired brother, Hal Le Sueur, to work in movies as a bit player.