It’s not like she didn’t warn us. In the Dec. 31, 1947, issue of THR, Joan Crawford penned a page-long paean to the wonders of motherhood that began, “I’ve been reading in t…
Of course, everything was far from fine in Crawford’s home. In 1978, the year after her death, the eldest of her children, Christina Crawford, published, a sensational account of life under Crawford, which alleged that the star had adopted her kids only as a publicity stunt.
, which features Faye Dunaway in one of cinema’s most over-the-top performances as the celebrity mom from hell. “It’s almost expressionistic,” Xander Berkeley, 65 — who in the film played Christina’s younger brother, Christopher, as an adult — says of Dunaway’s creative choices. “It’s like Greek tragedy or something.”was a minor hit for Paramount, grossing $19 million , but was trashed by critics and shunned by Dunaway. It found a second life among lovers of camp, however, gay men in particular.
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