A typed letter dated July 29th 1970, on her personal headed paper, by Oscar-winning actress Joan Crawford (1905-1977). She thanks her correspondent for sending her a copy of a memorial to a mutual friend, and signs boldly at the bottom with a blue biro. Comes with the original mailing envelope, postmarked New York.

Joan Crawford started out as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before signing a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivalled, and later outlasted, MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Often playing hardworking young women who find romance and success, these "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, and in 1945 starred in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Other notable movie credits include Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Untamed (1929), Laughing Sinners (1931), Grand Hotel (1932), The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Possessed (1947), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination, Daisy Kenyon (1949) and Sudden Fear (1952), which gained her a third Oscar nomination. In 1954, she starred in Johnny Guitar, a cult classic, co-starring Sterling Hayden and Mercedes McCambridge. She also starred in Female on the Beach (1955) with Jeff Chandler, and in Queen Bee (1955), alongside John Ireland. The following year, she starred opposite a young Cliff Robertson in Autumn Leaves (1956), and played a leading role in The Story of Esther Costello (1957), co-starring Rossano Brazzi. One of her biggest successes was the highly successful psychological thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), co-starring Bette Davis. Joan Crawford was voted the tenth greatest female star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute.