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Original Title:	Mommie Dearest
ISBN:	0966336909 (ISBN13: 9780966336900)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mommie Dearest #1
Characters:	Joan Crawford

Mommie Dearest (Mommie Dearest #1)

Christina Crawford

Unknown Binding | Pages: 420 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 8080 Users | 425 Reviews

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Title	:	Mommie Dearest (Mommie Dearest #1)
Author	:	Christina Crawford
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 420 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2001 by Seven Springs Press (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography Memoir. Culture. Film. Sociology. Abuse

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When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the façade of Christina's relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford.

Christina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos.

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3 "poorly written but utterly fascinating" stars !! The 2018 Jeez Louise Award Barely 2 stars for the writing but 4 stars in a fascinating character study of Christina Crawford !! Christina Crawford was a celebrity poster child for alleged abuse done to her and siblings by film actress Joan Crawford who was her adoptive mother. This film terrified me when I was a child and I had nightmares for several weeks after a babysitter let me watch this with her on a friday night. Here is a clip of my 10

Uggg....this book just dragged on for me. I've seen the movie several times but was interested in reading the book to learn about what the movie left out or changed. In the beginning it was very interesting to hear about how Joan Crawford moved up in Hollywood and the stardom that was created around her and not to mention the names that were dropped. It was also very interesting and cut-wrenching to hear the manipulative things that she did to the children she adopted. But after awhile the book

Christina Crawford had an awful childhood and Joan Crawford was a heartless bitch. Thats all true. But this book is so poorly written that its actual badness distracts and detracts from the plot. Christina needed (needs, since this was a rerelease) an editor who can stop her rambling prose, correct her spelling errors and help her get her details straight. She consistently changes tense, which makes reading hella difficult, and she cannot use commas. Im loathe to comment on how I feel about the

I grew up in the 80's and was irrationally obsessed with the movie Mommie Dearest; to this day, if I see it on TV, I have to stop what I'm doing and watch. Why the obsession about a pretty tragic story of a little girl who was abused? I have no idea, but I know I'm not alone.As an adult, who loves bios of old Hollywood, I don't know why it took me a while to actually read the book, but I just did and I enjoyed (? - not sure if that's the right word) it. It delved deeper into Joan Crawford and

Joan Crawford, one of the world's most famous actresses, has never come across to me as abusive or cruel, at least not in any of the films I've watched or interviews she's done in videos and magazines. I can't say that she certainly wasn't cruel to her child because I wasn't there to witness any of it, but from reading this book, which is full of inconsistencies, repetitive moments of self-pity and a style that evokes feelings of a horror novel rather than a memoir, I can definitely say that

Some great scenes in this book that show Joanie to be the crazy broad we all hope she actually was. However in a good chunk of the book Christina Darling bores us with her 'acting' career and life. However she did come up with more gems than Bette Davis's daughter.....Bette was mainly just scathing and difficult.I saw the movie before I read the book so in my mind Faye Dunaway is Crazy ol' Joan. But if you only want to read the book or watch the movie, watch the movie. The movie compacts all the

I read this when I was a kid during the summer at my father's house. It made... an impression. One time my step-mother took me along on a nosy day of looking at mansions for sale and we got to go inside the house where most of this book takes place.