Crawford then made Christina wear the dress for a week in order to humiliate her. Christina says she was once starved for days when she refused to eat an undercooked steak that was still bloody, all in a bid for her mother to further control her. At Christmas, the children were photographed as being gifted tons of items. But they were only allowed to choose one thing to keep while the rest were given away to charity or saved to be re-gifted.
The kids then had to write thank you cards for each and every gift, and those cards were meticulously edited by Crawford. When Christina was 13 years old, she supposedly suffered one final brutal beating from her mother, in which she thought she was going to be choked out. Did she think the rapprochement was real? She was an alcoholic. She was ill. She was drug-addicted.
Then she died. Christina was so furious she went straight to her desk and started writing down everything that had happened in her childhood. It was blaming the messenger for the bad news. Most of them are dead now; I have outlived all of them! And I never replied to any of them, or responded. I simply stuck to the message that I knew to be the truth. Her two younger siblings disputed the book, too, not unusual in an abusive family.
And that took me forward on a wave of faith. The ripple effect is still being felt. Look at Ohio State, with the athletes. Look at Penn State [where the abusive football coach, Jerry Sandusky, was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse]. This is right now. Unable to bear children, Joan, in , was denied children through regular adoption agencies due to her twice divorced status and being a single working person.
Her lover at the time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lawyer Greg Savitt, was able to go through a brokerage to adopt a baby girl, who would be Christina, the first of Joan's four adoptive children. Joan believes that her own difficult upbringing has made her a stronger person, and decides that, while providing the comforts that a successful Hollywood actress can afford, she will not coddle Christina or her other children, she treating Christina more as a competitor than a daughter. Joan's treatment of Christina is often passive-aggressive, fueled both by the highs and lows of her career, the narcissism that goes along with being an actress, and alcohol abuse especially during the low times.
However, Joan sees much of her actions toward Christina as Christina purposefully provoking her. Despite the physical and emotional abuse Joan hurls at Christina over the course of their relationship, Christina, who often wonders why Joan adopted her seeing as to the abuse, seemingly still wants her mother's love right until the very bitter end.
To my darling Christina, with love Mommie Dearest. Did you know Edit. Trivia Faye Dunaway mentions in her autobiography that she screamed herself hoarse during the filming for the notorious wire hanger tantrum scene in this movie. She called Frank Sinatra for help, and he gave her some pointers on how to get her voice back into shape. Goofs During opening sequence set in late Thirties, a sightseeing tour bus drives past with an illustration of the famous Hollywood sign on its side.
Quotes Joan Crawford : Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? User reviews Review. Top review. It got a bad rap, and Dunaway was robbed. I saw this movie the first night it opened in Las Vegas in The large theater was packed, SRO. And with its sizable budget, lavish sets, and A-list star, the prestigious resulting biopic was considered a surefire box-office hit and Oscar shoo-in.
Still riding high from her recent Oscar win for Network, Dunaway saw in Crawford a role only she was brave enough to play. The affinity was mutual.
But few know how gross, weird, strange, and, possibly, supernatural the set was behind closed doors. Dunaway was a trained Method actor who set out not just to understand but to experience her character.
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