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 ...

Christina Crawford, says her mother subjected her to throughout her childhood. In Christina’s 1978 memoir, Mommie Dearest, which was adapted into an iconic film in 1981 (in which Joan was ...