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Mommie Dearest

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Mommie Dearest
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PG,2hrs 9min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1981
Director:
Frank Perry
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest  ...more
Synopsis: When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather than an alleged lifetime of parental abuse that inspired Christina Crawford to pen her scathing autobiography Mommie Dearest. The 1981 film version of this tome was evidently meant to be taken seriously, ... Full Synopsis
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Perry Seibert, AMG Review
One of the most difficult roles for an actor to take is that of another actor. The problems that type of role entails are exponentially greater when a movie star plays another movie star. How does someone who has become famous for having a particular persona effectively communicate some other famous person's persona? Faye Dunaway plays Joan Crawford like a woman who is not playing a public persona, ... Full Review
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Faye Dunaway
Joan Crawford
Diana Scarwid
Christina Crawford
Steve Forrest
Greg Savitt
Howard Da Silva
Louis B. Mayer
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'Mommie Dearest' (1981) Who's Your Mommy? Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway). The equally diva-esque...
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