![]() ![]() In the most famous scene we learn a rule of the household that it appears Christina forgot, but we never will: “No wire hangers, ever!” Joan Crawford enters her children’s room in the middle of the night with her face slathered in cold cream giving her a ghastly cast (not full on Heath Ledger Joker scary, but enough to remind one why so many fear clowns). Based on Christina Crawford’s memoir of the same name, Mommie Dearest exposes the abuses, and, it seems mania, that went on behind the happy Hollywood family façade. Years later she adopts a baby boy, Christopher. Joan Crawford ( Faye Dunaway), after suffering a few divorces and several miscarriages, decides to adopt a baby girl, Christina (Mara Hobel, Diana Scarwid), whom she often refers to as Tina Darling. Mommie Dearest (1981), in all its melodramatic glory, was one of the films to benefit from this. This amount of repetition helped movies that already had memorable scenes and original lines to become utterly seared into the minds of the American public. ![]() So if you’d seen it once, you’d probably seen it a hundred times. In the 80s, if a TV station acquired a film they showed it endlessly. ![]()
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