The thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer VECTRA A900 (Celanese Corp.) shows a super-cooled liquid state in which it undergoes gradual crystallization and in which it maintains, when sheared, a high degree of molecular orientation. Both phenomena were studied by annealing the polymer 40 K above its melting temperature,Tm, and then cooling it quickly to the desired experimental temperature level,T.ForT>Tm, the sample is stable over a long time not showing significant changes. ForT<Tm, the polymer is in a super-cooled liquid state and undergoes gradual crystallization which can be observed as an increase in the complex modulus by several orders of magnitude. The rate of crystallization increases significantly with the intervalTm–T.Samples could be sheared in the initial stage of crystallization. The sheared samples showed a high degree of orientation in wide angle X-ray scattering patterns and large constrained recovery. Recovery was studied in two stages: the first recovery occurred at the shearing temperature and finished soon after the suspension of the shearing stress; the second recovery took place after the sample was completely remelted. The recoverable strains of both stages are severely temperature dependent and moderately time dependent. These observations are discussed with respect to the crystallization rate and the crystallinity of the super-cooled melt.