Joan Crawford and daughter Christina pose for a portrait together on April 18, 1946 in Hollywood, California. Bettmann/ Getty. Christina was born on June 11, 1939, and was adopted by Crawford ...

Joan Crawford’s childhood, she once reportedly said, was brutal: there was "not one goddamn moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.”Her daughter Christina clearly shared that sentiment. In 1978, a ...

The 1981 film "Mommie Dearest" was based on Christina Crawford's 1978 tell-all about her adoptive mother, Hollywood star Joan Crawford, and the alleged abuse she endured growing up.

Christina Crawford’s memoir, on which the film was based, reportedly outraged those closest to Joan. Even Cathy Crawford, Christina’s sister, noted: “It makes me very sad.

Author A. Ashley Hoff met Christina Crawford, who wrote the tell-all exposé about her movie-star mother Joan Crawford, at a 1998 screening of the book’s movie adaptation, “Mommie Dearest ...

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 ...

Joan Crawford, the legendary actress who starred in flicks such as Goodbye, ... Christopher, or my daughter, Christina, for reasons which are well known to them," she wrote in her will.

The problem with Mommie Dearest, both Christina Crawford’s book and the 1981 movie, is that rather than reveal the real, whole person, they flattened Joan Crawford down into an image.In the case ...

Here is everything to know about Joan Crawford’s four children. Christina Crawford, 85. Christina was born on June 11, 1939, and was adopted by Crawford shortly after her birth.

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 ...