These films include such financially fruitless and critically scorned films, such as Showgirls, The Lonely Lady, Mommie Dearest, Cool as Ice, Boxing Helena, Manos: The Hands of Fate, North, The Wicker Man, Fatal Deviation, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, and Troll 2, which have become inadvertent comedies to film buffs.

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.

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.

Mommie Dearest became a bestseller and was made into the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford.

She has starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ), and Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ).

Dunaway would later blame Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ).

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.

* Christina Crawford – Mommie Dearest

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

Mommie Dearest was one of the first celebrity " tell all " books.

Some of Joan Crawford's friends disputed the version of events presented in Mommie Dearest.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first husband, described the book by stating, " The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in Mommie Dearest is not the Joan Crawford I knew back then.

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

* On Christina and the story behind " Mommie Dearest.

* AllReaders. Com Book Review of Mommie Dearest

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* 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.

The 1981 film Mommie Dearest portrayed Crawford's appearance without specifying the name of the series.

He was executive producer of such films as Congo ( 1995 ), Silver Streak ( 1976 ), and The Other Side of Midnight ( 1977 ) and wrote and produced Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ).

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.

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.

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.

* Christina Crawford, author ( 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.

* Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ) – Christopher Crawford ( adult )

In 1978 Crawford wrote the controversial book Mommie Dearest which revealed her mother to have been an abusive parent.

* Mommie Dearest ( 1978 ) ISBN 0-9663369-0-9

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

The first string-laden ballad James recorded was " My Dearest Darling ", which peaked in the top five of the R & B chart.

* In episode " Father Dearest " of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a man posing as a sperm donor seduces young teenage girls, pretending to be their biological father.

* Dearest Vera Holograph letters from Austin Osman Spare to Vera Wainwright, edited by Kenneth & Steffi Grant, Fulgur Limited, 2010.

On August 28, 2001, Village Voice political writer Wayne Barrett wrote a lengthy piece entitled, " Mother Dearest & the Courthouse Cabal ," in which he discussed Stringer's involvement in courtroom politics, specifically questioning how Stringer's parents had benefited financially from his political ties, and whether some of his campaign contributors were involved in ethical improprieties.

* Survivor, a novel by Christina 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.

* 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.

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.

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.