Our favorite scene: Joan Crawford dazedly replacing her ailing daughter in the cast of a daytime TV soap opera. Some 16 months after Joan’s death in 1977, her eldest child, Christina Crawford, publishedMommie Dearest, often cited as the first celebrity tell-all. With more sympathy for the monstrous but intensely vulnerable Crawford than for her whining daughter (played as an adult by Diana Scarwid, and as a child by Mara Hobel). The film depicts Christina Crawfords adoptive mother, actress Joan Crawford, as an abusive, controlling and manipulative mother. This is the film with the notorious 'wire coat hanger' scene, just in case you need a reminder. According to the film (and the book that preceded it), Joan Crawford was a licentious, child-beating behemoth, who stalked and postured through life as though it was one of her own pictures-more Mommie Dearest -Don't mess with Joan Crawford, Pepsi - Joan Crawford vs PepsiMommie Dearest 1981 Directed by Frank Perry starring Faye Dunaway and Diana Scar. The 1981 film version of this tome was evidently meant to be taken seriously, but the operatic direction by Frank Perry and the over-the-top portrayal of Joan Crawford by Faye Dunaway (whose makeup is remarkable) has always seemed to inspire loud laughter whenever and where-ever the film is shown. 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 On Mother’s Day, IFC is planning to run an all-day marathon of Frank Perry’s 1981 film Mommie Dearest, a ghoulishly unflattering biopic of screen legend Joan Crawford based on an inflammatory.

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