Christina Crawford (born June 11, 1939) is an American actress and writer, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of the systematic child abuse allegedly committed by her mother, actress Joan Crawford. is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Original book cover Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. ... Child abuse is the physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. ... For other persons named Joan Crawford, see Joan Crawford (disambiguation). ...

Early Life/Education

She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1939 to unwed teenage parents (her father was in the Navy at the time) and adopted out-of-state in 1940 by Joan Crawford, one of four children adopted by the actress.^[1] Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... USN redirects here. ... For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). ... For other persons named Joan Crawford, see Joan Crawford (disambiguation). ...

Sent to a California boarding school as a child, Crawford later moved from California to the East Coast^[1] to attend Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and then studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. She earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude,^[1] from UCLA and a Master's Degree in Communications Management from USC.^[1] The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a degree-granting institution founded in 1914 as a division of Carnegie Mellon Universitys College of Fine Arts. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A B.A. issued from the University of Tennessee. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan located in the center of University of Southern California campus. ...

Personal life

Now unmarried, she has been married three times: to Harvey Medlinsky; David Koontz (married 1976-divorced 1982); and Michael Brazzel^{[citation needed]}. Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...

Medlinsky was a Broadway stage manager she met while attending acting school and they were married only briefly ^[1] She met her second husband, film producer David Koontz, when she worked in public relations for Getty Oil.^[1]. // Dictionary. ...

Acting career

Crawford has appeared in summer stock, including a production of Splendor in the Grass. She has also acted in a number of Off-Broadway productions. Summer Stock is an MGM musical made in 1950. ... Splendor in the Grass, an American movie from 1961, tells a story of sexual repression. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...

In 1961, Crawford appeared in a small role as Monica George in the 20th Century Fox movie Wild in the Country starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, and Tuesday Weld. That same year she had a part in Force of Impulse starring Robert Alda. She also had a role in the film Faces (1968), directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley and Gena Rowlands. Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Wild in the Country is a 1961 film drama starring Elvis Presley in which he portrays a troubled young man from a dysfunctional family who pursues a literary career. ... Elvis redirects here. ... Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress. ... Tuesday Weld, born August 27, 1943, is an American film actress. ... Robert Alda (February 26, 1914 – May 3, 1986) born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto DAbruzzo, was an American actor. ... Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring talented actresses, Gena Rowlands (his wife) and Lynn Carlin, who received one of the two Oscar nominations that the film garnered for her supporting role as Maria. The movie, shot in cinéma vérité-style, concerned the gradual... The year 1968 in film involved some significant events. ... John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929–February 3, 1989) was a Greek American actor, screenwriter, and director. ... John Marley (October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984) was an American actor who is best known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz - who receives a horses head in his bed - in The Godfather. ... Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress. ...

In 1962, she appeared in the play The Complaisant Lover starring Reginald Gardiner in Santa Barbara, and the review read, "Christina Crawford makes an attractive self-possessed 19-year-old, eager to learn about life." A stage play is a dramatic work intended for performance before a live audience, or a performance of such a work. ... Reginald Gardiner (February 27, 1903-July 7, 1980) was a British-born actor in film and television. ... Nickname: Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Santa Barbara Government  - Mayor Marty Blum Area  - Total 41. ...

She played five character parts in Ben Hecht's controversial play Winkelberg, based on the life of the late Bohemian poet, Maxwell Bodenheim, at the Stage Society Theatre on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, where it had its West Coast premiere September 17, 1963. Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. ... For other uses, see Bohemian (disambiguation). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26, 1891 – February 6, 1954) was an American poet and novelist. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ...

Crawford created quite a stir in Chicago in October 1965 with her sensational hit in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park.^{[citation needed]} She then mystified her Chicago friends when, in November, she decided to leave the play. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Neil Simon (1966) Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. ... Barefoot in the Park is a 1963 Tony-nominated comedy play by Neil Simon, about a young couple and their odd neighbors in their small apartment building in Greenwich Village, New York. ...

She played "Joan Borman Kane" on the TV soap opera The Secret Storm in New York from 1968 until 1969. She reportedly lost her job on the show after her mother was brought in, in October, 1968, as a temporary replacement in the role of the 28-year-old Kane for four episodes while Christina was in the hospital recovering from major surgery. The implausibility of Crawford (then 63) playing a 28-year-old was coupled by her apparent state of intoxication on the live telecast and Christina was let go from the series, maintaining that her mother's behaviour had contributed to her being fired. (When Joan Crawford was asked about her daughter by a reporter in 1970 she said, "On that soap opera, she played the best bitch I ever saw except for me in Queen Bee.") A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... The Secret Storm title card from 1960. ... The year 1968 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 1969 in television involved some significant events. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Queen Bee is a film released in 1955. ...

After leaving The Secret Storm, Christina Crawford moved back to California where she appeared in guest spots on the TV series Medical Center, Marcus Welby, M.D. and in 1972's The Sixth Sense. Medical Center was a dramatic television series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. ... Marcus Welby, M.D. was a popular medical drama that aired on ABC from late September 1969 to May 1976. ... The Sixth Sense was a short-lived TV series starring Gary Collins and Catherine Ferrar. ...

Career After Mother's Death

After Joan Crawford died in 1977, Christina and her brother Christopher learned that they had been disinherited by their mother in her USD $2 million will ( "...for reasons which are well-known to them")."^[2] USD redirects here. ...

In 1978 Crawford wrote the best-selling non-fiction book Mommie Dearest which described in detail the physical and emotional abuse to which she maintains that she and her brother were subjected, and in which her mother was described as a cruel, overbearing alcoholic who was more interested in her career as a movie star than in the children she had adopted (allegedly for publicity reasons). The book (whose account was supported by Christopher) made child abuse a frontburner issue at a time when it was rarely discussed ^[1]. For the book by Chuck Palahniuk titled Non-fiction, see Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. ... Original book cover Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. ... King Alcohol and his Prime Minister circa 1820 Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholics normal personal, family, social, or work life. ... Child abuse is the physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. ...

In 1981, a movie version of the same title was released, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. Christina has also published subsequent books including Survivor, and other books/novels which focus on the subject of child abuse. For seven years she served as President of Los Angeles' Inter-Agency Council on Abuse and Neglect Associates, during which time she campaigned for the reform of laws regarding child abuse ^[1]. Mommie Dearest is a 1981 Paramount biopic about Joan Crawford, starring Faye Dunaway. ...

After a near-fatal stroke in 1981, Crawford spent five years in rehabilitation before moving to the Northwest^[1] where she ran a bed and breakfast called "Seven Springs Farms" in Tensed, Idaho between 1994^[1] to 1999. A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted by occlusion (an ischemic stroke- approximately 90% of strokes), by hemorrhage (a hemorrhagic stroke - less than 10% of strokes) or other causes. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Rehabilitation of sensory and cognitive function typically involves methods for retraining neural pathways or training new neural pathways to regain or improve neurocognitive functioning that has been diminished by disease or traumatic injury. ... Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ... Tensed is a city located in Benewah County, Idaho. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year. ...

She formed Seven Springs Press in 1998 to publish the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mommie Dearest in paperback from the original manuscript, which included material left out of the first printing. She continues in the capacity of company publisher. See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...

In 1999, Crawford began working as Special Events Manager at the Coeur d'Alene Casino in Idaho. For other uses, see Idaho (disambiguation). ...

Books

• Mommie Dearest (1977) ISBN 0-9663369-0-9
• Black Widow: A Novel (1981) ISBN 0-425-05625-2
• Survivor (1988) ISBN 0-515-10299-7
• No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence (1994) ISBN 0-88268-184-2
• Daughters Of The Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origin and Aftermath (2003) ISBN 0-9663369-1-7

Original book cover Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. ... Christina Crawford (born June 11, 1939) is an American actress and writer, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an expose of the systematic child abuse committed by her mother, Joan Crawford. ...

References

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External links

• Christina Crawford at the Internet Movie Database
• Station Hill Authors
• Christina Crawford at the Yahoo! Directory