![]() ![]() Own loneliness), Crawford began adopting babies and stopped at four. ![]() From a variety of motives, most of them suspect but some authentic (for example, publicity and her In her late 30's, when her career and position at M-G-M were slipping, Crawford began styling a new role for herself-mother of orphans. ![]() This is a horror story that goes beyond showbiz scandal-mongering to become a morbidly disturbing saga of inverted mother-love and emotional bondage. In "Mommie Dearest" daughterĬhristina's memoir, Joan Crawford emerges from behind the glacially controlled facade she presented to her public and is revealed as a woman who could have shown the Marquis de Sade a thing or two when it came to what she called "disciplining" Now at last we can confront an authentic monster. Often one suspects that the mothers who posed for these harsh portraits were rather ordinary, well-meaning women disfigured by a daughter's resentment. Gets it coming and going: she's damned for being a selfish career woman and neglecting her daughter or not being a selfish career woman and trying too hard to be a mother (as in Brooke Hayward's "Haywire"). T's been open season on movie Moms ever since a generation of daughters raised in the shadow of stardom came of confessional age. DecemPower-Mad Queen Bee By MOLLY HASKELL Mommie Dearest By Christina Crawford ![]()
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