When Christina was 13 years old, she supposedly suffered one final brutal beating from her mother, in which she thought she was going to be choked out. Crawford attacked her daughter once more after that incident when she thought Christina was making a pass at her husband, Alfred Steele. She claims her mother never contacted her or addressed the situation afterwards. Although Christina never flat out accused her mother of killing her fourth husband, Steele, she has pointed to the fact that the healthy man suspiciously fell down the stairs only three years after they had been married.
Eventually, Cathy went on to win a defamation suit in mediation against Christina when the latter told people on her tour that Crawford only told people Cathy and Cindy who died in were twins, but it was all just an untrue bid for attention.
Feud: Bette and Joan airs Sundays at 10 p. She had adopted four kids due to her inability to give birth naturally. Many would have thought that Crawford cared for all her kids equally, but sadly, that was not the case. The details of how she treated her kids are in a publication by one of her mini-mes. Apart from the insider's stories, the actress left an overwhelming piece of evidence that showed friction in her relationship between her first two adopted children—through her will.
Irrespective of the irregularities, it has been obtained that the actress was born in the early s. She didn't grow up with both her parents, as the two separated before she was born. However, Crawford grew up with the presence of a man, Harry Cassin, in the household.
Her mother remarried Cassin, a theater owner, but their union did not last. The pair split before Crawford became an adult, and due to this, she had to labor for funds, as she was enrolled into a private institution. She attended Stephens College but did not complete her education because of her knack for dancing. While pursuing a dance career, she worked onscreen for MGM studios and later bagged some dance roles in films.
In , the film star featured in the hit drama "Our Dancing Daughters," which brought her to the limelight. Her reign was incontestable during the s, but by the s and beyond, she struggled to revive her career, which, thankfully, was a success.
By , she made a comeback in the horror blockbuster "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" and subsequently starred on a few TV shows. Nearly a decade later, the actress shared some details of herself in a memoir titled "My Way of Life. The American sweetheart was romantically involved with four different men, all of whom she married. Three of her marriages were to famous entertainers.
I want to pay for a room in the hospital and other costs. Branch said he would work free. Later, as she could afford it, Joan extended the gift to two rooms. That seems fair. Besides, I think people should know what kind of person Joan was—an extraordinarily fine person. Many people, among them even some who knew Crawford, believed what Christina wrote.
Some felt Crawford had mistreated her two older adopted children. Most of those closest to her, however, were vehement in their denunciation of the book and of Christina for writing it. Nevertheless, Davis was outraged by Mommie Dearest.
What she did not deserve was that detestable book written by her daughter. An abomination! To do something like that to someone who saved you from the orphanage, foster homes—who knows what. Gary [Merrill] and I adopted two babies, because when we married I was too old to have our own.
We were very pleased with our little boy, Michael, but our adopted daughter, who was a beautiful baby, was brain-damaged. I never have had regrets, though, because I think we provided for her better than anything else that could have happened to her, and we gave her some happiness in her life.
I wanted one, and Bette was so lucky to have been able to have her own daughter. With Mommie Dearest as her inspiration, B. It would not only have been out of character, but she only used covered, padded hangers. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation. She was never out of control.
The most she was guilty of ever was a few sharp words, and not many of those. We had our rows, but she never showed any sudden bursts of temper. Cathy Crawford totally denied what Christina had said. She and her twin sister, Cindy, were devastated by the book and the film based on it. Cindy and I had a different reality—the opposite.
Our Mommie was the best mother anyone ever had. I totally disagree. I wish the book had never happened. But if it had happened when Joan was still alive, and not too sick, I know her well enough to know she would have fought back, in her way. She had a quiet strength, but she was strong, and she was determined.
Nothing wishy-washy about her. I think if she could have, Joan would have protected her life and her body of work against that viper she had taken to her bosom. What perplexes me and makes me profoundly sad was that people wanted to spend their money that way, on such trash, and, worse yet, believed it. The readers who believed it were the ones who did the damage. She had to endure the hurt, but anyway she was there to defend herself and to go on the offensive.
She was strong, but the Joan I knew was a very, very vulnerable person. I think it would have depended on her health, but because she cared so much about what her fans thought, she would have done something if she could. Joan was punished for her good deed. However, despite the impact she left on cinema, much of her lasting image in pop culture has been determined by a role she played off-screen: mother.
Or, as she supposedly made her children call her, Mommie Dearest. Crawford's relationship with her kids has received tons of attention in the years since her death, with conflicting reports on whether or not she was abusive towards them. But how many children did Joan Crawford have? Crawford adopted five children , though she was only able to raise four of them: Christina, Christopher, Cathy, and Cynthia called Cindy. She adopted Christina first in as a single mother, originally naming her Joan Crawford Jr.
Her next child was adopted alongside her husband at the time, Phillip Terry, but that adoption didn't end up working out.
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