* Survivor, a novel by Christina Crawford

Crawford disinherited the two and, after Crawford's death, Christina wrote a " tell-all " memoir, Mommie Dearest, in which she alleged a lifelong pattern of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by Crawford.

The child was temporarily called Joan until Crawford changed her name to Christina.

Until Christina was well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, to which producer Gloria Monty readily agreed.

In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published Mommie Dearest, which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher.

A wire clothes hanger was also a featured prop in a central scene in the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest, in which Joan Crawford, played by Faye Dunaway, enters the room of her daughter, Christina, at night while the girl sleeps, to admire the beautiful clothes hanging nicely in her closet.

* October 21 – 25 – Joan Crawford makes a guest appearance for five episodes on the soap opera The Secret Storm, filling in for her ailing daughter, Christina.

Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford.

In the book, Christina Crawford claims that she was a victim of child abuse during her mother's battle with alcoholism and that her mother was more concerned about her motion picture career than the well-being of her four children, suggesting she may have adopted them for publicity purposes.

Christina recounts several evenings where Joan's behavior was unbalanced, and at least one encounter with her mother where Crawford attempted to strangle her.

While acknowledging that Joan Crawford was highly ambitious and an alcoholic for much of her life, critics have suggested that Christina embellished her story.

Crawford's Mildred Pierce co-star, actress Eve Arden, sided with Christina about Crawford's parenting abilities, saying that Crawford suffered from bipolar disorder ; a good woman in many ways but, as an alcoholic with a violent temper, simply unfit to be a mother.

Later biographers have reported that Christina began writing her book before Crawford's death, and have suggested that Joan's knowledge of its contents may have been a factor in Joan Crawford cutting her daughter from her will.

Christina Crawford has stood by her story and later released a " 20th Anniversary Edition " which includes one hundred pages of new material and omits about fifty pages of original material.

Christina also appeared at readings with drag entertainer Lypsinka, who has made numerous appearances as Joan Crawford during stage acts.

* Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford, William Morrow & Co., 1978, ISBN 0-688-03386-5, hardcover

* Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford, Seven Springs Press, 1997, ISBN 0-9663369-0-9, expanded edition,

Christina Crawford bought back the book rights.

Category: Books by Christina Crawford

* Christina Crawford, American actress

During this marriage Crawford adopted her first child, daughter, Christina.

* 1973 – Christina Moore, American actress

* 1989 – Christina Von Eerie, American wrestler

* 1974 – Christina Davis, Australian ballet dancer and contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia

Teaming with his daughter, Christina Engelbart, in 1988 he founded the Bootstrap Institute to coalesce his ideas into a series of three-day and half-day management seminars offered at Stanford University 1989 – 2000.

* 1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden ( d. 1689 )

* 1830 – Christina Rossetti, English poet ( d. 1894 )

* 1950 – Christina Onassis, American heiress ( d. 1988 )

* 1947 – Princess Christina of the Netherlands

* 1654 – Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.

* 1989 – Christina Broccolini, Canadian actress and producer

* 1858 – Maria Christina of Austria ( d. 1929 )

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

* 1975 – Christina Hendricks, American actress

* 1982 – Christina Cole, English actress

* 1742 – Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen ( d. 1798 )

Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents.

*" Marriage – its various forms and the role of the State " on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time featuring Janet Soskice, Frederik Pedersen and Christina Hardyment

* 1981 – Christina Vidal, American actress

* 1968 – Christina Kalogerikou, Greek actress ( b. 1885 )

* 1988 – Christina Onassis, American-born Greek heiress and socialite ( b. 1950 )

* 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress

* 1960 – Christina Amphlett, lead vocalist for The Divinyls

The conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden ( 1632 – 1654 ) occurred during Alexander VII's reign.

Meanwhile another contender for the throne had emerged – Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside and a grandson of Æthelred II, returned to England in 1057, and although he died shortly after his return, he brought with him his family, which included two daughters, Margaret and Christina, and a son, Edgar the Ætheling.

* December 8 – Queen Christina of Sweden ( d. 1689 )