What Dunaway unfortunately does not mention in this interview is that the reason she knows the book and film "Mommie Dearest" is NOT the real Joan Crawford is because before filming, she met with some of Joan's closest friends, including her secretary, Betty Barker. All of these people described to Dunaway who Joan was, and why her daughter lied. Sadly, Dunaway still played the role like a lunatic.
@beckylink2 жыл бұрын
The role seemed closer to herself than Joan… 🤔
@alhawal12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for exposing her I’m not surprised i just couldn’t believe her , and there’s a nother laying monster Maria reva who still lies and sold a book recently lies on her mother marlene dietrich
@qud39132 жыл бұрын
@@beckylink Absolutely, lol. After this many years, when you read what Faye's life have been, you'd think she was playing herself in that movie
@creativewriter3887 Жыл бұрын
Yes.. and the director did not pull her back...and when the movie became a camp classic, Faye tried to trash the director and blame him for her portrayal. The movie almost ruined her career in its aftermath.
@symon3304 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad Dunaways career crashed after this role. She took it knowing it was an exploitative piece for the wage. At the time Marlene Dietrich spoke out about it saying no actress should do that to another, even back in the 50s Monroe refused to play Harlow in a biopic for the same reason. Dunaway broke an unspoken rule in Hollywood and paid the price.
@LT-kq4uv2 жыл бұрын
“I feel fairly sure that that is not the Joan Crawford” ~ Faye Dunaway.
@richardmills15052 жыл бұрын
I HATE to say this, but Faye made an excellent and very valid point about exaggeration. Right on the money.
@paulvoorhies8821 Жыл бұрын
Per Bette Davis, she’d rather have worked with Joan again than Faye, calling the former a true professional and the latter unprofessional.
@melodyscorpion66062 жыл бұрын
The greatest sorrow in life is to have a child who turns out like Christina. Especially when you adopt a child, try to give them love the same you'd give your flesh and blood, but then this occurs after you pass on -- I can't imagine how Joan has been rolling in her grave.
@apartmentsixeleven40932 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@PBXVIILY2 жыл бұрын
Funny Joan Crawford is still Loved today as one of Americas greatest actresses. Fay Dunaway hit the nail on the head. These are moments in a persons life. Christine Crawford was very jealous of her Mother’s Talent and also fame. Watch the Larry King interview 2000, she inserts herself into her mothers accomplishments when Larry King praises her Mother. The truth is very complex. The envy Christine had for her Mother is obvious.
@Ric419Ай бұрын
WELL SAID, FAYE!!! ❤
@swooningtree4 ай бұрын
I saw the film version of Mommie Dearest before I ever saw a single Joan Crawford performance - and when I finally watched masterpieces like Possession, Mildred Pierce, Dancing Lady, Possessed, A Woman's Face etc. I basically reconciled myself to the fact that this brilliant actress was also an abusive mother. After READING the book for the first time, I'm less sure. So much of the book actually serves to make Christina seem petty and ungrateful - in a way that surely couldn't have been intentional. The vast majority of their conflicts seemed to stem from mutual stubbornness and Joan's insistence on Christina writing thank you notes for gifts. I myself grew up in quite a tumultuous home that even veered towards abuse - and I think Joan was probably a bit erratic (and definitely had a drinking problem in her 50s) but I think I've done enough research to say that it's a big injustice that her perception has been so coloured by Mommie Dearest.
@Marketoromagnolo2 жыл бұрын
she always said: only GOD knows what reall happened between them, so she let us understand the version by Christina is poor fantasy, but of course couldn't tell that because of the movie she made, and a very great performance
@judistench21672 жыл бұрын
I’d almost forgotten how brilliant and well spoken Faye is/was. She is honest enough to admit her true thoughts about the veracity of Christina’s claims, but she was enough of a professional to follow the direction and content she was given and give her hest performance in each scene. With better film-makers, this film coukd have been truly legendary instead of being mostly renowned as a camp cult classic. And yes Christina is a liar.
@frederickcombs86612 жыл бұрын
The book reads softer than the movie
@hedylamarr16372 жыл бұрын
Joan called Faye a great actress back in the 1960s..And look what Faye ends up doing to Joan.. disgraceful.
@peliasadventurer602 Жыл бұрын
Sad to say but that quote from Joan about Faye was likely fabricated. It is often cited even in Faye's autobiography that the quote came from Joan's very own 1971 book My Way of Life. In actuality it came from the highly suspect and likely fabricated 1980 book Conversations with Joan Crawford by Roy Newquist.
@LiirThropp26873 ай бұрын
What I find interesting is even Christina said the movie really exaggerated on what she claims happened. Why did they have to go so over the top? And why did Christina even have to cause all this? Joan was strict but that's not abuse. She wanted to raise her kids to be disciplined and grateful for what they had. Damn shame she was betrayed by the daughter she desperately wanted.
@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc2 ай бұрын
The reason that Christina Crawford wrote that awful book about her mother was because she was cut out of the will.
@Garsons-oq4lh2 жыл бұрын
A fasinating interview for sure but the film is such awful distorted trash. Key point about Christina's book at 7:57.
@verymozart2 жыл бұрын
If she didn't believe that why she accepted the role?
@MsBackstager Жыл бұрын
$$$$$$$
@creativewriter3887 Жыл бұрын
she thought it would garner her an academy award... so in many ways she was trying to get something based on Joan's legacy. So how ironic that both Faye and Toxic Tina thought their claim to fame would be trashing/ruining Joan Crawford's legacy and humanity.. and now it's backfiring on both of them.
@aileenwagner2576 Жыл бұрын
Thank u for sharing this. I never believed the garbage about JC. Her daughter strikes me as a greedy person who wanted things she did not earn.
@videox222ify2 жыл бұрын
Every time I show someone a Joan Crawford film they are so shocked to see how graceful and beautiful and soft-spoken she always was. She was nothing like this Dunaway creature and it is obscene for her to sit there and claim any type of kinship to poor Joan after she went out of her way to vilify her.
@dsrtflwr60932 жыл бұрын
My mother was a monster, but everyone in the community thought she was highly principled, and respected her very much (she was a school teacher). She was lovely at work but not at home. I think that happens a lot more than people realize. But, Joan Crawford may not have been as bad as Christina presented her in the book.
@ChristinaCrawfordLied2 жыл бұрын
Only...everyone who LIVED IN THE HOME also DENIED Christina's lies. Also, Christina told an entirely different version in TWO 1978 court-ordered depositions, and countless sworn statements. See my website for this evidence. Let's say you had to give a sworn deposition about your relationship with your mother, would it be the polar opposite from what you said above, or would it match?
@nettiegurl2 жыл бұрын
okay...there in lays the conflict. WHO the person is AT WORK ETC compared to who they are AT HOME. Big difference. One can appear so graceful, gentle, social around others. But on the homefront, there's an unseen ugliness. Like the shining pastor who secretly beats or abuses his own family.
@ChristinaCrawfordLied2 жыл бұрын
Except for the FACT that literally EVERYONE IN THE HOME denied Christina's claims. Joan's other children, her husbands (Fairbanks and Terry), Joan's secretaries Betty Barker and Billie Greene and the children's nanny, Miss Howe. Miss Howe was a LIVE-IN nanny with the Crawford household throughout the childhoods of Christina, Christopher, Cathy and Cindy - a span of nearly a decade. Yet, NONE of these people who lived IN THE HOME saw any of this "abuse." So, please account for that...
@nettiegurl2 жыл бұрын
@@ChristinaCrawfordLied or perhaps themselves LIED to save face in honor of Joan's star stature. Who knows. I certainly believed the movie considering the male leads who refused to work with her, in her latter years before MGM & Warner dropped her
@BunnySlippers822 жыл бұрын
I think if someone believed a lie was being told about a person that would tarnish their reputation forever, then they have a duty to not portray that in a film, simply on principle. Personally, I think Christina felt entitled to her mother's fame and money, and when neither of those things were handed to Christina, she waited until her mother left her nothing in the will to get her revenge. Christina has made millions off her accusations, some of which might actually be true to some extent. Like Faye Dunaway, I believe they're very exaggerated for reasons Christina might not face in reality. The fact that Christina says she never loved her mother tells me that she is a sociopath. Even I love my mother, and she treated me much, much worse than Christina claims her own mother treated her.
@lindajones8101 Жыл бұрын
I agree. Christina is a sociopath, or nowadays they will say narcissist.
@nikkib4739 ай бұрын
Chistina said she never loved her Mother? I recall an interview where a man asked her why she went to her funeral viewing and her response was along the lines of "well because shes my Mother and I loved her".
@lettylynton19322 жыл бұрын
If Faye Dunaway doubted the authenticity of Christina's claims & thought so highly of Joan, as she states "Joan pulled her herself up by the bootstraps", then why take this part? Was she really so hard up for work? To me, Dunaway sounds like she's backtracking with the interview as she realised too late what a train wreck the Mommie Dearest film was.
@royal_glamour2 жыл бұрын
I agree. When she's talking about how the movie has been received, starting around 10:40, I sense some anger there.
@brt52732 жыл бұрын
We don't know what ended up on the cutting room floor or how many less extreme alternate takes these were chosen over for the final cut. It was a given that some of the scenes were going to be intense, she was going to lose her temper and go over the top. So the actors do the scene and it's up to the directer to say either too much or not enough and ultimately the editors who chose the clips that end up in the film.
@ChristinaCrawfordLied2 жыл бұрын
Actually, we do know. The shooting script is online. This is the script Faye would have had when filming began. It is basically not any different than the finished film. The only key scenes that didn't make it into the film was a scene of Joan with Christina on the beach, a scene of Christina running away from home and a scene of Joan and Christina in Joan's New York apartment. Those scenes were "softer" than other scenes in the film, but they didn't soften the overall outrageous behavior that was never really explained. I think it is good that Dunaway spoke up in this interview about Christina's lies, but Dunaway knew very well the type of film she was making and did it anyhow. She was more interested in getting "noticed" (this film was something of a comeback for her) than caring about the quality of the material. Well, she did get noticed, but not in the way she wanted. www.theconcludingchapterofcrawford.com/script_md_december1981
@cathydrumobich90452 жыл бұрын
No one in Hollywood likes Faye Dunaway. She's horrid to work with. Why did she take the part? And why did she play it that way? She wants it both ways. Shame on her.
@beckylink2 жыл бұрын
Faye, Faye, Faye. You came so close to helping out but then you retreat like a coward for the rest of your life about this ? Where is the mea culpa? The “I shouldn’t have done this to Joan Crawford’s legacy.” Everybody can accept a mistake - I could forgive her taking the role and her going over the top even, if she’d say “Joan didn’t deserve this and I made a mistake that I deeply regret.” That would go a long way.
@call28722 жыл бұрын
Did Joan hit her children? Maybe. If you have a kid, there must be instances where you need to get physical to stop their temper tantrums. But does she become a monster when her kids disobey her? I doubt it. To my understanding, Joan grew up poor, and she had a rough childhood. For a woman who can empathise with gay men, I don't think she lacked the same capacity to treat her children with love.
@ChristinaCrawfordLied2 жыл бұрын
The thing is, even according to Christina's claims, she was rarely physically hit/smacked/spanked.
@preetakumar65932 жыл бұрын
Honestly, this doesn't seem genuine. It seems like she just backtracked after the film was a failure. If she knew the book was a gigantic lie, why would she even do the film? I've read the shooting script of MD which is on The Concluding Chapter of Crawford, and it isn't any different from the final product. She met friends of Joan during the film who told her that the book was a lie but still she went on and did it. I feel sorry for Joan. All that she contributed to this industry, and yet they partake in slandering her. I completely agreed with Marlene Dietrich's take- Paramount should be ashamed of producing such filth, Frank Perry should be ashamed of directing such filth, Dunaway should be ashamed of acting in such filth. Christina Crawford should hide in a hole and never return for writing such filth.
@Marketoromagnolo2 жыл бұрын
oh my god wh is the interviewer?
@ChristinaCrawfordLied2 жыл бұрын
Gene Shalit
@rossapolis2 жыл бұрын
Film critic Gene Shalit. He was known for his big hair and giant mustache. He's still alive. He's 96.
@farrellmcnulty9092 жыл бұрын
I can't help but think of Casey LaLonde, "Yeeeah...Um...."
@whitehousetexas2 жыл бұрын
“So” (which is the millennial word that begins even a yes/no answer) lemme get this straight. Joan Crawford left the two out of her will because she just knew the upbringing hadn’t stuck, both would conspire to a betrayal of her unsung motherliness, and Christina’s being super-articulate (edit added 👉🏻very highly likely all her life) would clinch public opinion anyway?
@ChristinaCrawfordLied2 жыл бұрын
Not exactly. Joan disinherited Christina and Christopher due to their behaviors as adults. BOTH lead very dirty lives, and only had any interaction with Joan in order to use her. When Joan cut them off (financially) as adults, that is when they had nothing more to do with her. Joan disinherited them because she had already given them their inheritance during her life.