7/6/2023 0 Comments Surviving mommie dearest![]() ![]() Joan competes with her child at a young age, berating Christina for play acting, beating the young girl mercilessly and, at one moment, cutting off chunks of her daughter's hair in a bitter frenzy.ĭunaway has since distanced herself from her performance and the movie, something which speaks volumes about the film's po-faced execution and its unintentional results. Although given all the material luxury the Hollywood Hills can bestow, Christina grows up in emotional poverty. After being denied a child through an adoption agency, she acquires a baby through other means and names her Christina. Mommie Dearest sees Crawford eyeing middle age, twice divorced, badly in need of a hit movie and thoroughly broody. Regardless of your tolerance for high camp and massive hair, you've got to admit it's memorable. Some call it a melodramatic, over-cooked turkey while others hail it as a cult classic. ![]() ![]() "You've got everything you wanted in life."įaye Dunaway gives it some welly as the unforgettable queen of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood royalty Joan Crawford in this exercise in posthumous myth-making and myth-breaking. ![]()
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