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.

Joan Crawford and her children Christine, Cathy, Cindy and Christopher pose for family portrait on November 13, 1950 in Hollywood, California. Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her ...

Her archrival, Bette Davis, once sniped that Crawford “slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.” H er legendary feud with Davis began in 1935 when Bette dallied with Franchot Tone ...

Tinseltown icons Lucille Ball and Joan Crawford each left their indelible mark in their given sector of the Hollywood realm. But when they came together in an episode of Ball's sitcom, The Lucy ...

In Christina’s 1978 memoir, Mommie Dearest, which was adapted into an iconic film in 1981 (in which Joan was portrayed by Faye Dunaway), the star’s daughter details the hardships of her mother ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Samuel Garza Bernstein’s new book is titled “Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon.” The author will sign copies of his book June 4 ...

Samuel Garza Bernstein’s new book is titled “Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon.” The author will sign copies of his book June 4 ...