Tensions escalated all the way to the courtroom.
Hollywood legend Joan Crawford had a complicated relationship with her children. The Oscar winner was married four times, to Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone, Phillip Terry and Albert Steele. When ...
Legendary Hollywood star Joan Crawford died in 1977. In 1978, her adopted daughter, Christina, published Mommie Dearest, a memoir that revealed the abusive reality of her life in the Crawford ...
Her eldest children, Christina and Christopher Crawford, had a strained, volatile relationship with their mom from their youth, leading to Christina's bestselling book Mommie Dearest. Joan was also a ...