The 1981 film Mommie Dearest—with Faye Dunaway as abusive glamour goddess and terrible mother Joan Crawford—was supposed to be a prestige film, but it ended up becoming a derided camp classic, ...

Faye Dunaway beware: One of the only people in the movie industry who isn’t afraid of you is talking about the making of “Mommie Dearest.” Rutanya Alda — who kept a journal while she played an ...

The problem with Mommie Dearest, both Christina Crawford’s book and the 1981 movie, is that rather than reveal the real, whole person, they flattened Joan Crawford down into an image. In the case of ...

May 7 will see the publication of "With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic," a new book that tells the story of the making of, and the aftermath of the now legendary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Faye Dunaway struggled to film the iconic "no more wire hangers" scene in "Mommie Dearest" ...but not for the reasons you might ...

Exclusive: As a new making-of book reveals, the cost and talent expended on "Mommie Dearest" were astronomical — and just the beginning of the infamous biopic going over the top. Mother’s Day means a ...

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