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Actress: The Secret Storm. Christina Crawford was born on June 11, 1939, to teenage parents. She was later adopted by screen legend Joan Crawford, originally named Joan Crawford Jr. When she was 11 months old, she was taken to Nevada, where she was formally adopted by Joan and renamed Christina.
- June 11, 1939
Mar 24, 2024 · In Christina Crawford’s 1978 autobiography Mommie Dearest (which would later be turned into a film starring Faye Dunaway), Christina revealed that far from being a generous and caring maternal figure, Joan was an alcoholic who physically and emotionally abused her adopted children.
Mar 26, 2021 · One of Crawford's children, Christina, wrote the 1978 memoir Mommie Dearest, in which she writes of enduring highly erratic and abusive behavior from her mother during childhood. The book was...
Actress: The Secret Storm. Christina Crawford was born on June 11, 1939, to teenage parents. She was later adopted by screen legend Joan Crawford, originally named Joan Crawford Jr. When she was 11 months old, she was taken to Nevada, where she was formally adopted by Joan and renamed Christina.
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- Actress, Writer, Director
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- Christina Crawford
- Her real age is unknown. Though no birth certificate exists for Joan Crawford (née Lucille LeSueur), everyone agrees on the March 23 date of her birth. The year is another matter.
- She was discovered in a chorus. Lucille grew up mostly poor in San Antonio, Texas, Lawton, Oklahoma, and Kansas City, Missouri. The family was abandoned by her father around the time of the girl’s birth, and her mother took in laundry to make ends meet — a possible source of Joan’s later horror of wire hangers.
- Her new name was chosen in a public contest. MGM chief Louis B. Mayer saw potential in the new contract player, but not as either Lucille LeSueur or Billie Cassin.
- Crawford was a petite, freckle-faced redhead. She seems so big on screen, right? Well, the eyes and mouth were certainly large and vivid, but the woman herself was barely 5’ 3".
Mar 19, 2017 · Following Crawford's death in 1977, her daughter, Christina, published Mommie Dearest, an explosive memoir alleging Crawford had been emotionally and physically abusive.
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Feb 5, 2008 · Christina, like her mother, became an actress, and for a time was a regular on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm. During a leave Christina took for major surgery, in 1968, Joan, who was...
