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 ...

“In the ‘wire coat hanger’ scene where Crawford goes ... traumatizing Hobel and more about her fear of demonizing Crawford. Joan Crawford with her adopted daughter Christina, whose memoir ...

It’s easy to feel superior to Joan Crawford. There are her Great Lady affectations, that pissy upper-crust speech reeking of noblesse oblige. “My audience always deserves the best I have to ...

they were named Joan Jr. and Phillip Terry Jr., (after his adoptive father). But after Crawford’s third marriage fell apart she renamed the children. 2. Crawford hated wire hangers, and ...

During a fifty-year career, Joan Crawford was simply too big to be ... And our Queen Joan has the biggest wire hanger ever. Glamorous Queen Joan, as she was called in her heyday, indeed had ...

But when Crawford's adopted daughter Christina published her memoir "Mommie Dearest" in 1978 -- the year after Joan's death -- mom became better known for allegedly wielding wire coat hangers ...

The idea of freaking out over wire hangers stemmed from Joan’s childhood. In a 2006 documentary, interviewees recalled the story about where that infamous line came from. Apparently, Crawford ...

There are no wire hangers in this Joan Crawford bio. That’s because the book’s two brief references are refutations. As co-authors Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell have it, Joan Crawford ...

It had melodrama, adventure, violence, sex and, of course, wire hangers. "Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star," an enthralling 90-minute documentary written and directed by Peter Fitzgerald and ...

So, as a result, one minute we see Joan Crawford winning an Oscar, the next minute, she's going off on her daughter in the middle of the night because, oops, a wire hanger was found in her closet ...

Ashley Hoff 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 ...