Mommie Dearest by Christina CrawfordMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Quite an amazing look into the life of Joan Crawford collecting kids via adoption and treating them like serfs while floating on a lake of 100-proof vodka, serial marriage, violent outbursts and "Lesbian proclivities". Of course the "no wire hangers" leapt into popular consciousness from the screen and is here in one of the earliest chapters about alcohol-fueled "night raid" on her children's' closets. However, the entire arc of the memoir is one of neglect and of Joan pushing her children far away, physically, financially, and emotionally as the grew away from babes and into adulthood. The final slap from the grave being written out of the will...
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