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19 ore fa · In the 1980s, however, Dunaway’s career began to falter. The iconic and disastrous Mommie Dearest (1981), an adaptation of Christina Crawford’s memoir of abuse at the hands of her mother, Joan ...
29 giu 2024 · “With Love, Mommie Dearest” details the bumpy road to adapting Christina Crawford’s 1978 memoir about her adoptive mother Joan Crawford’s abuse.
18 giu 2024 · Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina published Mommie Dearest (1978), an account of the harsh childhood that Christina and an adopted brother had at their mother’s hands, and a film version was produced in 1981.
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8 lug 2024 · An engrossing page turner, “With Love, Mommy Dearest” takes a serious look at the allegations that compelled Christina Crawford to pen her memoir that knocked the gilt foundation out from under her mother as a Hollywood star with a capital “S.”
2 giorni fa · “Mommie Dearest” is based on the 1978 tell-all by Christina Crawford, who alleged her mother, an icon of Hollywood’s golden era, was a cruel, abusive alcoholic who ruled her household like a tyrant. Joan Crawford, who died in 1977, wrote Christina and her adopted son Christopher out of her will “for reasons which are well known to them.”
2 giorni fa · Public opinion in 1981 seemed to regard the film’s source material – Christina Crawford’s memoir of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother – as an unseemly airing of dirty laundry. The film was a relative failure at the box office and the belated appreciation of its camp value was no consolation to Dunaway, who for decades refused to discuss Mommie Dearest.
2 giorni fa · 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.
