Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A camp classic, an unsung masterpiece, "Mommie Dearest" has been accused of many things, but never of being forgettable. Frank ...

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Anna Maria Italiano from the Bronx traveled almost as far to become Anne Bancroft as Lucille LeSueur did to become Joan Crawford. When she was one month short of graduating from the American Academy ...

There may be no more iconic utterance in the history of on-screen parenting, but actress Faye Dunaway could barely bring herself to film the scene. Dunaway, now 83, famously portrayed silver-screen ...

Anne Bancroft was originally attached to star. According to TCM, The Graduate’s Mrs. Robinson was set to play Joan Crawford, until she read Frank Perry and his co-writers’ script, which prompted her ...

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In a 2016 People magazine interview, Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway admitted to regretting her over-the-top portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 movie “Mommie Dearest” (Paramount), newly ...

The problem with Mommie Dearest, both Christina Crawford’s book and the 1981 movie, is that rather than reveal the real, whole person, they flattened Joan Crawford down into an image. In the case of ...

Exclusive: As a new making-of book reveals, the cost and talent expended on "Mommie Dearest" were astronomical — and just the beginning of the infamous biopic going over the top. Mother’s Day means a ...

Faye Dunaway beware: One of the only people in the movie industry who isn’t afraid of you is talking about the making of “Mommie Dearest.” Rutanya Alda — who kept a journal while she played an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett Collection Anna Maria Italiano from the Bronx traveled almost as far ...