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

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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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Title	:	Mommie Dearest (Mommie Dearest #1)
Author	:	Christina Crawford
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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

First of all:I recently came across the book Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Ann Lawson and Mommie Dearest was referenced in almost every chapter.Id first read the latter mentioned book 20 years ago as a 13-year old and it left me deeply disturbed, yet I was also impressed by Christinas bravery.I understand that not everyone who reads this autobiography is interested in reading Lawsons book, but I would however recommend for readers to perhaps at least do a goodreads/google

I grew up watching the Joan Crawford movies, my parents were fans. When I saw this book out, I had to snap it up and read it.It was a very good book even if the content was not only surprising but upsetting.To know a child has been abused and not much was done to help her is sad.To know someone is such a well respected woman and is doing the abusing and getting away with it, got away with it, was/is criminal.I'm glad Christina wrote the book so all could see the truth about her mother. I hope it

I'm having a hard time picking a star rating because I couldn't put this book down, and I think you should read it, but at the same time it's really just a two-dimensional, disjointed laundry list of horrifying events. It's like reading the tabloids.

As far as memoir writing goes, Mommie Dearest isn't terribly strong. I do think that Crawford was able to get her experience on paper and that this was probably therapeutic to finally share her truth. I also think she captures the constant struggle between seeking a mother's love while also hating her and enduring her abuse. And the abuse she endures is overwhelming. That being said, I don't find her writing style very strong. She jumps around, repeats, and is often so enmeshed in her mother's

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

A vicious story of an unhinged adoptive mother. She was also a highly admired star of her day. The story was written by her adopted daughter Christina and it paints a very abusive picture. The pain that the book shared was a terrible situation for these little children to be caught up in. There were midnight raids on the closets to check for wire coat hangers. It was a nerve wracking read. Joan Crawford was depicted as a woman that wanted to have a perfect image for the news and magazines, but