No Wire Hangers - Mommie Dearest (6/9) Movie CLIP (1981) HD

Mommie Dearest movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: After finding a wire hanger in Christina’s (Mara Boyd) closet, Joan (Faye Dunaway) beats her with it. FILM DESCRIPTION: 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, 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 w