Joan Crawford was an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, beloved until her death in 1977. But her daughter Christine's tell-all memoir of shocking child abuse, Mommie Dearest, threw the doors open on ...

Dunaway, now 83, famously portrayed silver-screen icon Joan Crawford in the 1981 cult classic “Mommie Dearest.” Directed by Frank Perry, “Mommie Dearest” is based on the tell-all memoir of ...

it means a chance to grab some wire hangers and rekindle a love for the 1981 camp extravaganza “Mommie Dearest.” Starring Oscar winner Faye Dunaway as Oscar winner Joan Crawford, the movie ...

According to TCM, The Graduate’s Mrs. Robinson was set to play Joan Crawford ... Christina Crawford opened up about the film’s famous title, saying that, “‘Mommie dearest’ was a term ...

Mommie Dearest was adapted from Christina Crawford’s 1978 tell-all autobiography about the abuse she endured at the hands of her mother, Golden Era Hollywood actress Joan Crawford (played by ...

A few years after Crawford's demise, Dunaway was starring as Joan in her adopted daughter Christina's exposé of life with mommie dearest. It is a cruel film, which shows scant regard for the good ...

The 1981 film Mommie Dearest—with Faye Dunaway as abusive glamour goddess and terrible mother Joan Crawford—was supposed to be a prestige film, but it ended up becoming a derided camp classic ...

Whatever the truth of their relationship, the saga of Joan and Christina Crawford is terribly disturbing—and terribly sad. Since Mommie Dearest’s release, supporters of both women have taken ...

In an excerpt from a new book, we learn what really happened in the Faye Dunaway classic Chicago Review Press; Atila Sikora 'With Love, Mommie Dearest' by A. Ashley Hoff Joan Crawford was an icon of ...