Premise: Joan Crawford . But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s , and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress . She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for Possessed ( 1947 ) and Sudden Fear ( 1952 ) . Possessed is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama directed by Curtis Bernhardt , starring Joan Crawford , Van Heflin , and Raymond Massey in a tale about an unstable woman 's obsession with her ex-lover .
Hypothesis: Joan Crawford was a film actress.
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