Image of the cover of the book With Love, Mommie Dearest, with a photo from the film of young Christina Crawford and Joan in matching floral dresses and big white hats

Legendary Hollywood star Joan Crawford died in 1977. In 1978, her adopted daughter, Christina, published Mommie Dearest, a memoir that revealed the abusive reality of her life in the Crawford household. The book became a controversial bestseller and inspired the movie of the same name, released in 1981 and quickly entrenched as an unintentional camp […]

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