Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. ... Joan Crawford's other two children, Cathy and Cindy, as well as many employees and friends denounced the book as fiction.

Was Mommie Dearest exaggerated?

The original poster for Mommie Dearest featured a black-and-white headshot of Faye Dunaway as Joan, her eyebrows, cheek bones, and lips wildly exaggerated into a nearly grotesque mask, under the tagline, “The illusion of perfection.” And this was back when the studio and the filmmaker thought they had a serious movie ...

Why did Faye Dunaway regret Mommie Dearest?

Dunaway believed Mommie Dearest to be a “window into a tortured soul,” but laments that it was “made into camp.” “I think it turned my career in a direction where people would irretrievably have the wrong impression of me―and that's an awful hard thing to beat,” Dunaway said.