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	Mommie Dearest (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coincidentally, though Dunaway portrayed her as an abusive lunatic, Joan Crawford once said in an interview in the early 1970s that, she believed, of the current young actresses only Dunaway had "what it takes" to be a true star.
		Christina later went on to appear at various drag shows across the U.S. featuring "Joan," including performances by Lypsinka, who does a reenactment of the "wire hangers" scene among other Crawford bits, which tends to belie Christina's claims about the seriousness of the abuse.
		During the scene where young Christina is making one of her "uncles," who is visiting her mommie, a drink, there is an '80s era plastic bottle of 409 spray cleaner visible on the bar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mommie_Dearest_(movie) (627 words)

	CHRISTINA CRAWFORD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Christina Crawford (born June_11, 1939) is an American actress and writer.
		Joan Crawford died in 1977 and Christina, along with her younger adoptive brother, Christopher Crawford, was disinherited.
		Christina wrote the best-selling non-fiction book ''Mommie_Dearest'' (1978), telling of life and abuse growing up with a cruel, overbearing, alcoholic adoptive mother, who was more interested in her career than in her children.
	www.witwib.com /Christina_Crawford (610 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| Mommie Dearest in drag
		Christina Crawford, quite literally the author of her dead mother's woes, emerged from the comparative seclusion of her Idaho ranch to introduce the movie "Mommie Dearest" to several thousand of those same gay men -- present company included -- who think the story of her childhood abuse is one big campy joke.
		While for Christina Joan Crawford was a flesh-and-blood tormentor and for us she was a celluloid lifeline, for both she has come to represent a period when the truth about our lives could not be told.
		According to Christina's narrative, a Hollywood actress had purchased, abused and imprisoned her in the service of a public relations campaign, and Christina mastered that trauma by engineering on her mother's behalf the single worst disaster in the history of PR.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/1998/07/01feature.html (2154 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Our guest tonight is Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, author of the famous book, "Mommie Dearest," maybe the most famous, if we could call it, tell-all book ever written, certainly in point of view of sales and interest, led to a major, major motion picture.
		C. CRAWFORD: And so I went and I saw her, and she was so frail and so small, and it was the best thing that I could have done, although I was scared to death.
		C. CRAWFORD: I was surprised when I found out that that was the same language that had been in the will many years before, because I had had a relationship with her as an adult, and I was very much a caretaker for her.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0108/10/lkl.00.html (5925 words)

	The Revolt of Joan Crawford's Daughter
		Whenever Joan Crawford was working on a movie, the actress would rush home each evening to sit with Christina at dinner, to hear her prayers and to tuck her into bed.
		Christina remember these arguments as revolving mainly around the question of clothes, and if her memories are correct, they suggest that Joan Crawford was reluctant to see her daughter grow up.
		Although Christina had the second-highest average in her class and had been elected vice-president of the student body -- the highest honor a non-Catholic girl could achieve -- no member of her family was present to applaud her.
	www.joancrawfordbest.com /magredbook.htm (5645 words)

	Joan Crawford The Ultimate Movie Star
		Among those interviewed are Christina Crawford, the daughter who revealed her mother's abusive nature in her book, Mommie Dearest; Vincent Sherman, who became Crawford's lover while directing her in three movies of the 1950s; and Crawford costars Diane Baker, Betsy Palmer and Cliff Robertson.
		Crawford reportedly threw a fit when Christina hung her clothes on wire hangers and even struck her with one.
		Crawford was born in poverty and abandoned by her own father when she was a child.
	www.fitzfilm.com /joan.html (1650 words)

	Amazon.com: Mommie Dearest: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Christina Crawford is an internationally recognized, best-selling author and advocate for adoption reform, the rights of women and children, and a pioneer in making family violence an issue of national concern.
		Christina Crawford was not suggesting that her mother had no talent, and I do not believe that her goal was to destroy her mother's professional reputation.
		Christina Crawford could not have faked her history with her mother and have it fit the criteria for NPD so precisely prior to its definition as a mental disease.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966336909?v=glance (2566 words)

	Al Weisel - Christina Crawford - Mommie Dearest
		Published just a year after Joan Crawford's death on May 10, 1977, Christina Crawford's poison-pen letter to the abusive, alcoholic actress who adopted her was shocking at a time when child abuse was rarely discussed in public.
		In the suit, LaLonde maintains that as a result of Crawford's contention, she "was held up to public ridicule," and she calls Mommie Dearest "fake and fictional." Crawford, who won't comment on the suit, says that she and the twins were "raised as separate families" and have always been estranged.
		(By the time Crawford was able to identify her biological parents—her mother was a 19-year-old student when Christina was born and her father an engineer—they were both already dead.) She is divorced from her third husband (whom she will not name).
	home.nyc.rr.com /alweisel/usmommiedearest.htm (748 words)

	Daughter Dearest
		Christina Crawford published her book "Mommie Dearest" in 1978, and the world never looked at her adoptive mother, movie legend Joan Crawford, the same way again.
		Crawford in her day may have had no trouble commanding movie-audience attention, but her real power-hold was on her four adopted children, two of whom (Christina and Christopher) she brutalized.
		Because of the revelations presented in the hair-raising tome, there were some positive results: People were encouraged to stop stigmatizing adopted children just because of their variant bloodlines, and personal tell-all memoirs by the offspring of the rich and famous were suddenly catapulted into the mainstream, instead of being confined to niche publishing.
	www.joancrawfordbest.com /magpeople98.htm (1044 words)

	Amazon.com: Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Crawford's sexual life is sugar coated yet in nearly every chapter, Christina Crawford is portrayed as a woman obssessed with becoming an actress.
		Christina Crawford never, ever, was considered for any Crawford film, nor did she vocally begrudge Joan her star status.
		Crawford was a fine actress in good films when properly directed, but most of her films were not that good.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813122546?v=glance (2726 words)

	Christina Crawford Message Board
		Christina Crawford's adoption was a matter of publicity and not of love.
		Christina was probably too afraid to tell the nuns or even go to the autorities.
		Christina, My brother and I thought that we were the only kids to get beat with dutch cleanser until Mommie Dearest came out in 1981.
	www.allreaders.com /board.asp?BoardID=25881 (879 words)

	Joan Crawford Tribute at Classic Movie Stars
		Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1904 in San Antonio, Texas.
		She was the product of a broken home before she was born in that her parents already separated before she was born.
		Christina and Christopher did not inherit anything for "reasons best known to them".
	www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/JoanCrawford.html (688 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Mommie Dearest
		Joan proceeds to deliver a seminar on how not to raise children: taunting Christina when she loses to her mother in a pool race, starving her because she won't eat raw steak, beating the crap out of her with a wire hanger—all in the name of raising Christina to be a proper young lady.
		The film, and the book from which it was adapted, is essentially Christina Crawford's method of getting revenge on her late mother for being cut out of the will.
		Nevertheless, it does seem clear that Joan Crawford was physically and mentally abusive to Christina, and that she was quite possibly psychotic.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mommiedearest.php (861 words)

	Joan Crawford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Joan Crawford], actress, was born to Thomas and Anna (Johnson) LeSeur in San Antonio, Texas, on March 23, 1906.
		Despite her successes, Joan Crawford believed that MGM was giving its meatiest roles to other actresses, and in 1942 she asked the studio to release her from her contract.
		Twins Cynthia and Cathy each received $77,500, but Christina and Christopher were cut off without a cent "for reasons which are well known to them." A year after Joan Crawford's death Christina published "Mommie Dearest", a scathing autobiography of growing up as an abused child.
	www.famoustexans.com /joancrawford.htm (789 words)

	WEHT.net: Whatever Happened To... Christina Crawford
		After touring the world on the talk-show circuit, defending her claims of being a victim of child abuse, Christina suffered a near-fatal stroke in 1981.
		Christina made a complete recovery from her stroke and following the demise of her second marriage to producer David Koontz settled in the mid-west to own and operate a bed & breakfast on a horse farm.
		Christina still continues to lecture to childrens & victims rights and appears occasionally in celebrity functions.
	www.weht.net /WEHT/Christina_Crawford.html (182 words)

	Ape Culture - A Mother's Day Extravaganza with Christina Crawford
		She brought out the actress who played young Christina in the movie who is now around 30, has a baby of her own, and still acts.
		Christina kept emphasizing the good she thought the book had done, how it had brought child abuse to greater attention, out of the closet.
		At the end of the interview, Christina requested that Lypsynka come out on stage, and she presented Lypsynka with a gold, decorated wire hanger as a token of appreciation.
	www.apeculture.com /movies/crawford.htm (1131 words)

	Station Hill Authors -- Christina Crawford
		Christina Crawford is an internationally recognized, best-selling author.
		She is an advocate for the rights of women and children, a pioneer in making child abuse an issue of national concern, a communicator about the long-term effects of childhood trauma on adult survivors, a business-woman, writer-producer, public speaker, and workshop presenter.
		Christina Crawford's devastating memoir, Mommie Dearest (over 5,000,000 copies sold), first as book and later as Hollywood film, made the American public aware of violence in the family.
	www.stationhill.org /crawford.html (391 words)

	Mark and Christina
		My adventure with Christina Crawford began on May 6 with her appearance at Town Hall in New York City to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Joan's appearance there!
		I guess Joan forgot to tell Christina that it is rude to ask for payment for one's autograph.
		I took one last look at Christina and thought to myself, "'Mildred Pierce' was fiction??!!" Christina obviously took cues from Veda Pierce.
	members.aol.com /HarlowGold/christina.html (918 words)

	Crawford, Joan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Joan Crawford, unvarnished: Christina Crawford talks about TCM's new documentary on Joan Crawford, which doesn't sidestep the diva's dark side.
		Her own private Idaho: Joan Crawford's daughter Christina finds the home she never had as a child.
		Film: Make the scary lady go away; There's a season of her films about to begin at the NFT and Mildred Pierce is re-released this week.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/crawfrdj1.asp (583 words)

	Christina Crawford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Christina Crawford was born on June 11, 1939, to teenage parents.
		Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002) (TV)....
		Find where Christina Crawford is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0186726 (138 words)

	Female Wrestling Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Christina Aguilera is struggling to reach the ropes.
		Christina Aguilera is inching her way towards the ropes.
		Christina Aguilera executes a kick to the groin on Gwyneth Paltrow.
	home.cogeco.ca /~bturk66/public/Rumble01.html (5178 words)

	The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine): Joan Crawford, unvarnished: Christina Crawford ... @ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When the new special Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star premieres on Turner Classic Movies on August 1, Joan's daughter Christina Crawford won't be watching.
		But Christina did travel to Los Angeles from her home in northern Idaho to be interviewed on-camera for the documentary by producer-director Peter Fitzgerald.
		Joan Crawford tracks the onetime Lucille LeSueur from dust-bowl hoofer to wildly ambitious contract player to major movie goddess to fallen star triumphantly reinventing herself as the alcoholic nightmare so familiar to fans the film Mommie Dearest, the Showgirls of '80s.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:89871737&refid=ip_almanac_hf (463 words)

	2004-2005 Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Soccer - SIU Edwardsville
		4 Crawford, Ann at Lewis (Oct 10) 4 Crawford, Ann vs William Woods (Sep 29) 4 Stremlau, Christina vs William Woods (Sep 29) 4 Armstrong, Kristine vs Indianapolis (Sep 24) 4 Crawford, Ann at Southern Indiana (Sep 19) 4 Crawford, Ann vs W. Virginia Wesleyan (Sep 03) GOALS..............
		2 Crawford, Ann at Lewis (Oct 10) 2 Stremlau, Christina vs William Woods (Sep 29) 2 Armstrong, Kristine vs Indianapolis (Sep 24) 2 Crawford, Ann at Southern Indiana (Sep 19) 2 Crawford, Ann vs W. Virginia Wesleyan (Sep 03) ASSISTS............
		7 Crawford, Ann vs W. Virginia Wesleyan (Sep 03) 6 Light, Angela vs Missouri-St. Louis (Oct 15) 6 Armstrong, Kristine vs Indianapolis (Sep 24) 6 Crawford, Ann at Ashland (Sep 12) SHOTS ON GOAL......
	www.siue.edu /ATHLETIC/WSOC/2004/GLVC/SIUE.HTM (1726 words)

	Joan Crawford
		(1981) was based on the novel by her daughter, Christina Crawford, who depicts her mother as a competitive, malicious, and overbearing figure.
		Joan Crawford - Crawford, Joan, 1908–77, American movie star, b.
		Joan Crawford gets what she deserves on TCM.(The Dallas Morning News) (Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0154713.html (307 words)

	Station Hill Reviews -- Christina Crawford
		THERE'S NO MENTION of raw red meat, wire hangers, or late-night bathtub scrubbing in Christina Crawford's new book, No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence (Station Hill Press).
		Instead, camp's reigning icon of victimization has written a recovery test that finds child abuse to be at the root of everything from racism to unnecessary surgery.
		And how does Crawford feel about gay men finding humor in the abuse depicted in the film version of her autobiographical Mommie Dearest?
	www.stationhill.org /reviews_crawford.html (131 words)

	Find in a Library: Mommie dearest
		by Frank Perry; Faye Dunaway; Steve Forrest; Diana Scarwid; Christina Crawford; Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/eb08dff923ac1b77a19afeb4da09e526.html (43 words)

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