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Career

When Crowe finished her education at secondary level, she joined a convent afterwards with the idea of becoming a nun, but she soon scrapped this idea and in October 1921, she gained entry to the Abbey Theatre School of Acting . Soon after, she secured a lead role in ‘The revolutionist’ with little training due to most Abbey Theatre lead actors being abroad for a US tour . While this advanced Crowe's career she would later go on to state in an interview that she felt she would have preferred to start with small roles and work upwards rather than start with leading roles . However, Crowe soon established herself as a leading lady in Theatre and also did some avant-garde work with the Dublin Drama League, which also operated in the Abbey Theatre and led her to being in leading roles in many productions, starting with ‘The Marriage of Columbine’ in December 1921.

The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where Crowe worked in productions with the theatre for over five decades,

In December 1925, Crowe married fellow Abbey Theatre actor Peter Judge professionally known as F.J McCormick, with whom she would have two children with, a son and a daughter. In 1931, Crowe embarked on her first US and Canada tour with the Abbey Theatre, and would do so annually until the start of the second world war . Crowe made her film debut with the 1925 film ‘The land of her fathers’, this would then help her become one of the few actors from the Abbey Theatre to go to Hollywood to work on John Ford’s film adaptation of 'The Plough and The Stars' in 1936, which she already had a role in the 1926 production of the play . She would then continue to collaborate with Ford in ‘The Quiet Man’ in 1952 and ‘The Rising of the Moon’ in 1957.

Crowe continued to work on films and productions with the Abbey Theatre. Her roles in the following decades ranged from ‘Hungry Hill’ (1947), ‘Top o’ the morning’ (1949), ‘The promise of Barty O'Brien’ (1951), ‘Boyd's shop’ (1960) & ‘A pair of green eyes’ (1964) . In 1967, with the Abbey Theatre, she performed in the production of ‘Juno’ in London as part of the World Theatre Season . On the 27th of May 1970, she made her last on stage appearance in ‘Grogan and the Ferret’ performed at the Peacock Theatre. .