Legendary Hollywood star Joan Crawford died in 1977. In 1978, her adopted daughter, Christina, published Mommie Dearest, a memoir that revealed the abusive reality of her life in the Crawford ...

The following is an excerpt from the new book With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic by Hollywood historian A. Ashley Hoff, available now through Chicago Review Press.

Discover What’s Streaming On: If Mommie Dearest fans are hoping that star Faye Dunaway might finally be ready to embrace the 1981’s film’s campy cult-classic status in her new documentary, they will ...

Faye Dunaway struggled to film the iconic "no more wire hangers" scene in "Mommie Dearest" ...but not for the reasons you might think. “No wire hangers, ever!” There may be no more iconic utterance in ...

A year after her mother’s death, Christina published a book entitled Mother Dearest. In this book she alleges that living with her mother was hell, and that if she did anything like that today she ...

May 7 will see the publication of "With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic," a new book that tells the story of the making of, and the aftermath of the now legendary ...

"I should have known better," she says of the movie about Joan Crawford. Faye Dunaway attends "The Last Face" premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals, May 20, ...

"No more wire hangers ever" is one of the most quotable lines in Hollywood history, and it almost didn’t happen. Faye Dunaway, who portrayed silver screen star Joan Crawford in 1981’s "Mommie Dearest, ...

There may be no more iconic utterance in the history of on-screen parenting, but actress Faye Dunaway could barely bring herself to film the scene. Dunaway, now 83, famously portrayed silver-screen ...