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 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, 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,

* On Christina and the story behind " Mommie Dearest.

* AllReaders. Com Book Review of Mommie Dearest

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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 ).

He frequently threatens various people with a shotgun and attempts suicide ( including an annual attempt at Christmas and in the episodes " Mommie Beerest " after his bar is closed by the health department, Moe calls the suicide hotline only to discover that they ’ ve blocked his number and " Treehouse of Horror XIV " in demonstration of the absence of Death ).

" Mommie Beerest " is the seventh episode of the sixteenth season of The Simpsons.

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.

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-Slate article by Hitchens about Mother Teresa

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.

* Second Prize: " My Mommie Dearest " by Jeanne Lim

* As Told by Ginger-Dr. Juan / Running Doctor ( Episode Mommie Nearest )

* Christina Crawford, author ( 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.

Among Forrest's notable films are So Big, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, The Longest Day, North Dallas Forty, and Mommie Dearest.

She formed Seven Springs Press in 1998 to publish the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mommie Dearest in paperback from the original manuscript.

* The scene where Homer sings at Moe's Tavern while Marge plays the piano was cut from this episode, but later used in Mommie Beerest as a postscript scene during the end credits.

Da Silva also played Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover ( 1977 ), Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ), " Angelo Dokakis " in Garbo Talks ( 1984 ), and Benjamin Franklin in 1776 ( 1972 ), as well as a documentary depicting the life of Ben Franklin shown at Franklin's house in Philadelphia.

The opening theme is " Dearest " sung by Hitomi Nozaki, with lyrics by Syoko Sawada, and arrangement by Masala Nishida.

However, a march named O Mais Querido ( The Dearest One ) by Lourenço da Fonseca Barbosa ( Capiba ) is very popular and is the de facto anthem.

The Strand is also referenced in the song " Calm Down Dearest " by Jamie T, with the line " Drink your can we'll get drunk down the Strand and talk about how you skipped the whole club queue ".

Weekly Dearest My Brother is a manga and figurine series which according to Takashi Murakami, women find cute and " an innocent fantasy ", but arouse " pedophiliac desires " among men.

Despite the lack of documentary evidence, and the lack of contemporary reference, other authors have repeated Bush's assertion that Alfred and Mabel married, including John van der Kiste and Bee Jordaan in Dearest Affie, and the assertion is repeated as fact in the official family history ( Das Haus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ).

The letter Rose writes is addressed " Dearest St. Crumpet "-- her pet name for him was " St. Crumpet "-- and contains sweet, affection, attentive notes about how much she and her family thought about Ruskin during their travels:

However, Dr. Huang returns to aid an SVU investigation in the season 13 episode " Father Dearest "; he facetiously comments that his new assignment in Oklahoma City is fun for a gay single Chinese-American.

My Best Fiend (, literally My Dearest Enemy-Klaus Kinski ) is a 1999 documentary film by Werner Herzog about his tumultuous yet productive relationship with German actor Klaus Kinski.

* Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears ( 1985-1988 )-39 half-hour episodes: A New Beginning, The Sinister Sculptor / Zummi Makes It Hot, Someday My Prints Will Come / Can I Keep Him ?, A Gummi In a Gilded Cage, The Oracle / When You Wish upon A Stone, A Gummi By Any Other Name, Loopie Go Home / A-Huntig We Will Go, The Fence Sitter / The Night Of The Gargoyle, The Secret of the Juice, Sweet and Sour Gruffi / Duel of the Wizards, What You See is Me / Toadie's Wild Ride, Bubble Trouble / A Gummi in a Strange Land, Light Makes Right, Up, Up and Away, For A Sovereigner More / Faster Than Speeding Tummi, Over The River and Through The Trolls / You Snooze you Lose, The Crimson Avenger, A Hard Dazed Knight / Do Unto Ogres, For Whom The Spell Holds, Little Bears Lost / Guess Whos Gumming To Dinner, My Gummi Lies Over The Ocean, Too Many Cooks / Just A Tad Smarter, If I Were You / The Eye of the Beholder, Presto Gummo / A Tree Grows In Dunwyn, Day of Beevilweevil, Water Way To Go / Close Encounters for a Gummi Kind, Snows Your Old Man / Boggling the Bears, The Knights of Gummadoon, Mirthy Me / Gummi Dearest, The Magnificant Seven Gummis, Music Hath Charmes / Dress For Success, A Knight To Remember / Gummis Just Want to Have Fun, Theres No Place like Home / Color me Gummi, He Who Laughs Last, Tummis Last Stand / The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again, Ogre Baby Boom / The White Knight, Good Neighbour Gummi / Girls Knight Out, Top Gum and Gummis at Sea.