"It's like Greek tragedy," says actor Xander Berkeley of Faye Dunaway's over-the-top performance as the celebrity mom from hell. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Of course, everything was far from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A camp classic, an unsung masterpiece, “Mommie Dearest” has been accused of many things, but never of being forgettable. Frank ...

Faye Dunaway beware: One of the only people in the movie industry who isn’t afraid of you is talking about the making of “Mommie Dearest.” Rutanya Alda — who kept a journal while she played an ...

Mommie Dearest hit US theaters on September 18, 1981 with a biographical drama chronicling the relationship between actress Joan Crawford and her adoptive children. The film, based on Christina ...

The problem with Mommie Dearest, both Christina Crawford’s book and the 1981 movie, is that rather than reveal the real, whole person, they flattened Joan Crawford down into an image. In the case of ...

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, ...

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The Los Angeles home that provided the backdrop for many scenes in the 1981 film "Mommie Dearest" has just had another price chop. But if you buy it—just make sure you do a good job of cleaning it.

There are a lot of “so bad it’s good” Hollywood movies. But the mother of them all, if you can pardon the pun, is Mommie Dearest. The big-screen version of Christina Crawford’s memoir about her movie ...