* 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.

* Christina Crawford – Mommie Dearest

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.

Noting that the plot and setting reminded one of horror fiction works by the German author Hanns Heinz Ewers, and defending Domnişoara Christina in front of harsher criticism, Călinescu nonetheless argued that the " international environment " in which it took place was " upsetting ".

* Christina Hoff Sommers, author and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Christina Hoff Sommers ( born 1950 in Petaluma, California ) is an American author and former philosophy professor who is known for her critique of late 20th century feminism, and her writings about feminism in contemporary American culture.

He edited the diaries of his maternal uncle John William Polidori ( author of The Vampyre and physician to Lord Byron ), a comprehensive biography of D. G. Rossetti, and edited the collected works of D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.

Tina Brown, Lady Evans, CBE ( born Christina Hambley Brown ; November 21, 1953 ), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.

She was created by author Grant Morrison and artist Ethan Van Sciver in New X-Men # 133 ( December 2002 ), although her character was not fully developed until the New X-Men: Academy X series written by Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis.

The author Christina Pratt, in An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, says that " Brugmansia induces a powerful trance with violent and unpleasant effects, sickening aftereffects, and at times temporary insanity ".

The group advocates " equity feminism ," a term first used by IWF author Christina Hoff Sommers to distinguish conservative feminism from what she refers to as " gender feminism ," which she claims opposes gender roles as well as patriarchy.

Among the many people who worked for the OWI were Jay Bennett ( author ), Humphrey Cobb, Alan Cranston, Martin Ebon, Milton S. Eisenhower, Ernestine Evans, John Fairbank, Lee Falk, Howard Fast, Alexander Hammid, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Wade Jones, David Karr, Philip Keeney, Christina Krotkova, Owen Lattimore, Murray Leinster, Paul Linebarger, Irving Lerner, Archibald MacLeish, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Charles Olson, Gordon Parks, James Reston, Peter Rhodes, Arthur Rothstein, Waldo Salt, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Stephenson, George E. Taylor, Chester S. Williams, and Flora Wovschin.

Christina Crawford ( born June 11, 1939 ) is an American writer and actress, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of alleged child abuse by her mother, actress Joan Crawford.

* On Christina and the story behind " Mommie Dearest.

An exposé of sorts, My Mother's Keeper is often compared to the 1978 book Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford, the daughter of Joan Crawford.

Because the book contained much unknown information about Ross ' alleged diva-ish behavior onstage and off, some people jokingly referred to the book as " Diana Dearest " ( this name was inspired by Christina Crawford's memoir Mommie Dearest ).

Polonsky was an uncredited scriptwriter for Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ), based on Christina Crawford's memoirs of her adoptive mother Joan Crawford, and The Man Who Lived at the Ritz ( 1981 ), based a novel by A. E.

Arias is also notable for his portrayal of Joan Crawford in New York and San Francisco productions of Christmas with the Crawfords, an original holiday spoof of Christina Crawford's book Mommie Dearest.

Scarwid is perhaps most recognized for her next role, that of Christina Crawford, the abused adopted daughter of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest.

* Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake, edited by Margaret Harris ( 2006 ) ISBN 0-522-85173-8

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

* Interview: Alan Pell Crawford, author of Twilight at Monticello, Reason. tv, 2008, video

In the book Understanding the Borderline Mother, author Christine Ann Lawson suggests that Joan Crawford may have had Borderline personality disorder ( BPD ), along with an obsessive compulsion with cleanliness.

Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, was appointed executive director of GMI in September 2001.

: For the American author, F. Marion Crawford, see Francis Marion Crawford and for the fictional character, Marion Crawford ( EastEnders )

Crawford was the named author of the book The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, which told the story of her time with the Royals.

* Allen Crawford, author and illustrator

B. Rebhan, a State Supreme Court Judge ; Florence Sterling, writer and editor ; Phoebe Kerrick Warner, author and National Chairman of the Rural Women's Clubs ; businesswoman Florence Crawford ; teacher Daisy Birchfield ; and Mary Redfield Plummer, lecturer on parliamentary law at Northwestern University.

* John Crawford ( author ), Iraq war veteran and author of The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

Henry Farrell ( September 27, 1920 – March 29, 2006 ) was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known as the author of the renowned gothic horror story What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ?, which was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

The principal author of each report was David Crawford.