With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age—until publication the following year of her daughter’s memoir, Mommie Dearest .

Christina Crawford’s book was an…

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