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  • So this is how they started begging billions of dollars out of the public world wide. Just think if they really cared about a cure for cancer, they would support Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski would have gotten his patent and the 5 grand juries would have been avoided. Instead they have tried to stop the cure for cancer. Check out Dr. Burzynski's movie on YT.

    He's had a success rate of 30% - 50%!!! Pass it on!

  • She has always crept me out with those eyebrows and stare...seems like she was always on the verge of killing you...

  • You know where to find the Booze` and the Boys dont you!!!

    Christina? get me the Hatchet

    What are wire hangers "Doing in this closet?

    Why cant you give me" the Respect i,m entItled too GIRL!!!

  • I would have loved to have been spanked by Joan Crawford!

  • safe and sound until the wire hangers come out! No wire Hangerrrrrs!

  • @blue2765 Fay Dunaway, not Joan Crawford. It was in a book by her daughter. It may have happened, but not like the incredible performance from Fay.

  • So Fantastic! What I really want is the out of print book she wrote 'My Way of Life'.

  • I'm curious how you know why Christina was sent away to boarding school? Joan Crawford only recieved a sixth grade education. Is it possible that she wanted her children to have better? You seem to be reaching a bit in presuming to know the motivations of people you've never met.

  • Yeah, Poor Christina.. She was forced to eat rare steak and made to live in a Brentwood mansion. I grew up on mac n cheese out of a box in a trailer house in Arkansas. As for beatings, I recieved my share and while i can't dispute that abuse is wrong I can't imagine that CC had it worse than any child that is raised in poverty or with addicted parents (which Joan was), Bad mother? probably. Bad daughter? equally likely.

  • @greeneyedstone42 From what I gather, its not so much the beating as the abuse, it was the emotional disconnect. She wanted a maternal connection from her mother and Joan didn't have the capacity to give it, so she did things the best she could. Sometimes a mother's best will never be good enough.

  • @truvelocity it's me greeneyedstone42 on my new acct. ty for responding. yep Joan should not have adopted. but honestly, the woman died in the '70's and Christina is still running around crying abuse. I think her actions reflect a person who is obsessed with the material far more than the maternal..

  • People don't know what really happened at the crawford home. If I was abused, i wouldn't write a book and let the whole world know. She knew she was being disinherited and knew she had nothing to lose from it. Christina is just another ungrateful hollywood brat! Don't judge a book by it's cover!

  • Joan wasn't the best mother, she was obviously bipolar with serious OCD, never recovered from her harsh poverty stricken childhood&youth of getting brutally used and abused, and wasn't mentally fit enough to handle being a mother. They shouldn't have let her adopt. But one thing I know for certain, whatever fact and fiction may be, is that she was FAR the worst mother(Diane Downs took the cake on that title), Joan didn't even get an honorary mention on the Worst Mothers Ever list.

  • @julesreverie Diane Dows was the one that shot her children and then had the little girl she gave up for adoption? Didn't the lawyer for her two surviving children adopt them? And yes I believe Joan was Bi Polar and OCD because I have a sister just like that.

  • A woman so desperate for success, no matter making this scene, having dozens os lovers (men and women), drinking and smoking a lot, trying to make everything absolutelly perfetc, a great figure for a good psycho analysis.

  • Today, this would have only been shown after the reruns of Cheers were over at midnight.

  • JOAN CRAWFORD was an AMAZING person!! Lovers will LOVE and HATERS will HATE...

  • I wonder who is the "Mommie Dearest" of today...Which star is being paraded like this, yet actually beats her children?

  • I love this

  • did she not blink at all from 2:06- 2:42? I can't do that lol

  • Why can't you GIVE ME THE RESPECT...THAT I'M ENTITLED TOOOOOO!

    Christina: BECAUSE I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FANNNNNSSSS!!!!

    (cue screaming, lamp breaking, choking sounds)

  • I WILL ALWAYS BEAT YOU.

  • You people are all stupid. Christina Crawford was and still is an ungrateful little brat. She is a liar, and has admitted she lied. I wish she HAD been beaten. Funny how she is the only one out of FOUR kids who said this. She was pissed at Joan and wanted to destroy her name and didn't have the balls to do it while Joan was still alive.

  • What a whore, LOL!

  • NOOO WIRE HANGERRRSSSSS EVERRRRRR! lol

  • She doesn't blink from 2:08 to 2:45. Hm.

  • FUCK YOU JOAN!!!!

  • What a freaking HAG.

  • Karma got her when she died. I really believe the woman had BiPolar mania, the way Christina wrote about her, the fits of housecleaning, the three and four hours of sleep, the ranting and raving and cursing. That's just how BiPolar does to people. People like that turn to drinking, and that's why they are really good actors because they can act their way out of anything.

  • @Sheri451 By your logic, karma "gets" everyone. 

  • @Beeguiling No Karma happens to bad people,

  • @Sheri451 Hmm, how to phrase this? You wrote, "Karma got her when she died." Because everyone dies, karma 'gets' everyone, no?

  • @Beeguiling I guess it does.

  • This is fricken stupid, A FAKE! SHE IS A CHILD ABUSER! oh my goodness, and the will! after all she put them through she could have ATLEAST put her in her room!

  • Christina!! Christopher!!! DAMMIT!!!!

  • @roseindecember88 hahahaha!!!

  • A WIRE...HANGERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

  • STAGED!

  • As concerned as Joan Crawford was about public appearance, it would mortify her to know that her daughter wrote a book airing out all their dirty laundry. Omitting Christina and Christopher from her will was not a smart move at all. I think that was the last straw that motivated Christina to write "Mommie Dearest."

  • Christina!!! Bring me the axe! Christina!!! Bring me the vodka!! Christina!!! HURRY

  • TINAAAA!!! Bring me the axe!

  • This is verging on creepy.

  • I think you're overreacting, ms. Crawford

  • @vasyazadov is that you, mrs chadwick?

  • NO WIRE HANGERSSS EVAAA!!!!

  • I'm sure Joan wasn't the perfect mother, but Id on't know any perfect mother. We all have our flaws and moments, and we all have some t hings we would have done different if we could go back. But to have a child write a vile, despicable tell-all (tell all LIES that is) book after her mother's death, well, that tops everything. Shame on that wretched ungrateful girl. If she was cut from the will there had to be a good reason. She was seething with jealousy of Joan's talent.

  • JOAN CRAWFORD IS ONE OF THE MOST WELL-ROUNDED HUMANS THAT HAS EVER LIVED....PERIOD!!!!! 

  • CHRISTINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, GET OUTTA THAT BED!!!!

  • I love people who rush to defend Joan...as if people actually know what went on in the Crawford family behind doors.

  • @marshroanoke EXACTLY!!!

  • WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME THE RESPECT?!

  • @vasyazadov Because. I'm. Not. One. Of. Your. ARETHA'S

  • and how very mature of you all poking fun at joan crawford based on the shit that christina wrote and released AFTER SHE HAD PASSED AWAY, WITH NO POSSIBILITY TO TELL HER SIDE OF THE STORY AND DEFEND HERSELF! Joan was a great mother, her daughter Cathy and late Cindy vouched for that. They never tried to make cash on their mother's expense, unlike Christina and Christopher did, which, btw, tells a lot about their characters.

  • Oh lord, the irony.

  • ***NOOO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!! WHAT ARE WIRE HANGERS DOING IN THIS CLOSET WHEN I SAID **NO WIRE HANGERS EVERRRR!!!! *****

  • NO WIRE HANGARS IN THE CLOSET !!!!!!

  • @Darthbelal No Dear it's " NO WIRE HANGERS...EVERRRRRR! "

  • All I know is, Angela Lansbury said that the wire hangers thing was TRUE. She knew Joan Crawford.

  • Let's get the facts straight. Joan Crawford WASNOT at all like what her "daughter" Christina made her out to be. If anything she was a hard working, fan appreciateive, ACTRESS who financally took care of her Mother and brother untill they passed on. You can tell alot by the actions of a person and Joan's actions spoke volumes about her. She answered ALL fanmail Personally, Remembered the "little" people on her movie sets.. The tragedy isnot what she did to Christina it'' what Chris did to her

  • @iamismay -- But that doesn't prove she was a good mother. I believe my mother suffered from the same personality disorder as Joan and these kinda mothers can be very kind keeping up with an IMAGE, yet mean behind closed doors. If you've never had a mother like Joan, just hush up. Because Christiana deserves to be understood. The fact that Joan would send her child away to boarding school proves that she disliked her daughter. Christina spent most of her teenage years away.

  • MAN, THOSE KILLER EYEBROWS!!

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  • Oh My God! She makes me SICK! She was so fake!!!! Anybody who bought her bullshit in this video... I have some swampland to sell to you in Florida! I bet Christina Crawford got beat with a wire hanger after this video was made.

  • i cant believe she slept with Marilyn Monroe. but oh well... i guess they didnt really "come out" back then

  • Brentwood was posted as a haunted house. And that was part of the causes of her going crazy and hurting the children.

  • @rehpotsirhc21 she was a lier, kind of crazy how she acted like a loving mother but then again she was an actress. it's not like she did this from the bottom of her heart I'm sure she was paid to do so.

  • if she didnt really care about children why would she do a public service announcement to help them, she could have easily made up an excuse to not do it

  • im gonna do that to my kids

  • @jazzscherzo

    Your the one who started arguing,and you have some serious issues,to say all of that pathetic bullshit,get some help

  • @jazzscherzo

    uum its a lttle fucked up that your pretty much saying,that you will beleive what you want and you dont even care if ts true or not

    weak bitch,continue going along with the crowd

    YOU shut up,

  • THE END OF THE WORLD IS ALMOST HERE!HOLY GOD WILL BRING JUDGMENT DAY ON MAY 21,2011...

  • @2011iam4god What's so special about May 21, 2011?

  • @jazzscherzo

    um,becuase I DO KNOW MYSELF!

  • im not denyng that she was a strict woman,bossy and sometiems cold,but she was NOT a monster.

  • She was a drunk, drug abusing, child abuser, closeted lesbian, stop glamourizing her...she was a sociopath.

  • @nycbull

    she didnt do drugs,and she was NOT a sociopath,you obviously know NOTHING of her and her life.

  • i don't care what your children do, if you cut them from your will, what kind of mother are you? i think just her doing that to christina says enough.

  • @1radash Bull's eye my friend! You're so, so right!

  • @1radash well didn't she say at the end of the will, "for reasons they are well aware of"? or something along those lines? she should've just said, "I couldn't stand either one of you, so you're not gettin shit" ugh what a horrible mother. I don't blame her daughter one bit for writing that book.

  • @1radash

    the reason she left them out of the will is becuase they had taken advantage of her and even at one time they had both been stealing money from her.Joan crawford supported her mother and brother when she first became famous,even thought hey always treated her like shit. people need to know the truth and know about the good things joan did.

  • @KURISUCHRIS99 uh, did you know her personally?? lol, there is nothing anyone can say to me that will make me say "oh, well that explains it so i guess it makes it ok", i don't think so.

  • @1radash

    no i didnt obviously,but more than one celbriteys of the time who KNEW her and her HOME life said that she wasnt that way,Marlene Dietrich,myrna loy(who had known her since 1925),jack carson,ann blyth,Barbara stanwyck etc. and the two actresses who hated her were some of the ONLY two people who said its true(Bette davis,Helen hayes)

  • @KURISUCHRIS99 lol, ok ok! geesh, you have to much time on your hands. i still stick with my first comment. i'm done talking about this now, i really don't care that much about this topic,lol

  • @1radash

    uhh then dont post ignorant things

  • @1radash she cut Christina out of the will because she knew about the awful tell-all book Christina was writing about her...Id call that means to cut my child out of my will that they were going to rub my name in the mud with mostly false accusations.

  • @1983faithfully lol, u didn't know them personally so how do you know they were false accusations? and TO ME it doesn't matter, u have UNCONDITIONAL love for your children and obviously she didn't have that for hers.

  • @1radash no obviously she didnt...also considering that Christina was a pretty rough child to begin with, and made Joan Crawford look bad in previous years, hence why they didnt get along in Joan's final years. But come-on if you knew your child was going to write this awful book about you, I'd say your just asking to get cut out of the will. and she did.

  • @1983faithfully i don't know, i don't really care enough to continue the conversation.lol

  • @1radash lol but u cared enough to make a comment 6 months ago when your really just basing your facts off a book that may or may not be true!!! such a shame people like u can be so narrow minded.

  • @1983faithfully lol, well actually honey i have no idea what book you're talking about. and what FACTS are you even talking about??? i simply stated an opinion, i didn't base anything on FACTS. lol, such a shame people like you can be so stupid. now go get a life and stop obsessing so much over joan crawford.

  • @1radash your right...I forgot I have a life, so I wont stay on here arguing with your narrow minded ass. but bitch pelase, Joan Crawford is fabulous, and your not.

  • @1983faithfully lol, you're a dork.

  • @1radash lmao!!!! a Joan Crawford dork at that...and proud of it.

  • @1radash It also seems possible that she didn't put them in the will, because she was actually serious when she said that she didn't want her kids to be spoiled brats and having everything they wanted because they were "Crawford's kids".She wanted them to have a sense of charity. Maybe?

    In any case money makes many families act differently towards one another.

  • @1radash Leona Helmsley did the same thing..left nothing for the kids cuz they didn't respect her (why should any mother be obligated to leave their adult children money if they don't respec them?) Its not like Christina was a dependent child, she was a grown woman who could support herself. All do respect to your opinion though.

  • @1radash if my daughter pulled some major BS with me, I wouldn't leave them a dime either. Also, Christina was not a dependent when her mother put together the will, but a grown woman. Therefore she should not have expected her mother's inheritance to support her.

  • @DiabolicalAngel i'm guessing you don't have a daughter, if u did then you would probably feel differently.

  • CHRISTINA!!!!........BRING ME MY COCKTAIL

  • @RobNLynchburgVA  HA HA HA HA HA!!! And don't forget, "Christina, bring me the ax!!!!!"

  • Love with discipline make up the perfect recipe for raising children. . . .

    along with a dash of beatings.

  • Joan's natural beauty comes through a little better, in this film, as her hair color is more closely photographed to the color of her lashes and brows.

  • Oh my gosh.. I just tried to go as long as she did without blinking, and my eyes started to burn! Couldn't do it. Weird... Wonder why she didn't blink?

  • @artsyfartsyme Make up around her eyes.

  • Joan Crawford got a bum rap. Who DOESN'T beat their kids???

  • children and make them understand the value of money. Because Christina Crawford is bitter and appears to be someone who doesn't have a whole lot to offer, nor any real desire to strive to accomplish anything, the public is left with what I believe is a grossly distorted image of Joan Crawford. Very unfortunate.

  • Mommie Dearest, claiming that the book was actually just a collection of her random notes about childhood and that friends encouraged her to send them to a publisher. Right. You come away understanding why Joan Crawford would take a coat hangar to her (if it actually ever happened) because it's very easy to envision her as a smart mouthed, disrespectful, defiant brat. By the way it sounded, Joan Crawford was a bit OCD, but she was also someone who tried to instill a strong work ethic in her

  • Recently there was a program on the Discovery Channel about Joan Crawford's will. Christina Crawford was on, along with the son of one of Joan's other adopted daughters. The grandson painted a very different picture of Joan Crawford than Christina does and, frankly, he is far more credible. Early on it's apparent that Chritina Crawford is highly manipulative with an entitlement personality and a strong penchant for one-sided revisionist history. She out and out lies about the origins of

  • @66912280 I saw it too and if you did the math, his mother was a toddler at the time this was going on. He, of course, wasn't even born.

  • ewwwwwwww

  • What a load of crap this is.

  • ohhh ok so she did abused em ok i was lost now im not.... and she caes about kids? ok

  • ohhh ok so she did abused em ok i was lost now im not....

  • ha after learning about her, when seeing public interviews from her, the way she speaks, position herself, and all that before the book came out..she was one mentally ill person..but fascinating.

  • I wonder if the doll she's holding is one she just confiscated and beat her child over the head with....

  • I'm under my neice's account, so excuse the screen name. Um, I never knew Crawford was such an activist for such a cause. I wonder if this was genuine ,or for publicity when they dropped her contract @ MGM.

  • Who knew Joan was such a deep thinker!?

    "Don't fuc with me fellas! Give to the Jimmy Fund!"

  • Evil Bitch!!

  • this women was a diva she was a cold selfish heartless bitch she actualy withheld her kids birthday and christmas presants who does that to a kid

  • No matter what anybody says or thinks about this woman, I think the commercial was for a great cause and it was beautifully done!

  • I clocked her in at 43 seconds without blinking!

    Try it yourself.

  • @Sohny2006

    Slut!

  • Joan really seemed to care about children with cancer, but ads and PSAs were so dramatic in the 50's. I hope it generated lots of donations, though.

  • UHMM, from the movie christina drove her mom insanse all she had to do was do as she asked spoiled bitch

  • she doesn't blink

  • You know, I gotta tell you... I admire her.

    There's something about this tough broad (I am sure she would use the term herself ;)) that makes me want to tip my hat to her. Something deeply human and earnest.

    .

    She was deeply flawed - like so many people - but she was honest in her attempts to perfect her craft; and she did seem to genuinely love her audience.

  • @Hadewijch

    applause.

  • @ccipollini1984

    And a bow to you, kind sir or madam. ;-)

  • Do not believe everything you read...the daughter was a little bitch...she could have killed herself like so many stars chidren did..paul newman's son, jeniefer jones daughter, Margret sullivans kid. charles boyer's son, william powells' son and take a look at brados kids and art linkletters kid carrol o'connor it goes on and on..so the Crawford gal was spoiled and ungrateful and not pretty or talented...and Miss crawford was acting and is not the character she portrays.

    geesh

  • From 2:00 she scared me a bit... pointy hair and manic eyes O_O

  • She was bi Polar

  • she probably whoop some ass afterwards....she looks crazy

  • Hateful, delusional witch.

  • WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

  • I know it's just a result of the video quality, but at 2:05 - GAH! DEMON EYES!

  • Joan was psycotic.

  • People are giving christina way too much credit. She waits till her mom dies to talk trash about her, makes herself "The victim" and builds a career on trashing the woman that took her in.

    Joan had hangups, no doubt, but Christina was and is no saint.

    You can't respect someone like that....

  • everything WAS for show then because of the studio systems. You could only say or do what they would let you. Joan did the best she could with her children given all of the Hollywood hullabaloo. Besides, if children were more disciplined today, the kids would not be into so much trouble. And she may have been manic- depressive, so am I and that was a stupid thing to say! Christina bore nothing, she waited on her mother to die so she could be in the spotlight. How sad.....

  • @jhburch1

    she was a coward.

  • @jhburch1. If her Ms. Crawford's behavior was similar to that of the film Mommie Dearest, I would assume that she suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder, far worse than Bipolar.

    Who really knows what happened. But if Mommie Dearest is anything close to being the true story than that most certainly is appalling. Child abuse is a serious matter and doesn't matter if you're privileged or not.

  • Everything was for SHOW...how sad...

  • Is this Joan Crawford's actual home? It seems like it is because in Mommie Dearest the set depicting her actual house looks kinda like this.

  • lol lol

  • Hmmm, that's weird because I just watched the film and there aren't any real clips from this commercial in the movie. However, there is a scene where Joan walks down her steps in the house and looks back up at her kids' bedroom similar to the way she does in this commercial. That might be what it was.

  • Now that we have all anylized Joan, can we beat cancer?

  • Joan crawford had mental illness bipolar and skitzofrania when she adopted her kids and purchased them threw the black market...............

  • @stauffer301 That's exactly right! Joan Crawford was manic depressive!!! Poor ol' Cristina had to bare the brunt of it all

  • About as fake as you can get. It's completely insipid.

  • @djbethell As if that's anything knew from the self promotion Hollywood celebrities do?

  • @djbethell As if that's anything new from celebrities endorsing their 'causes?'

  • Love how they use the underscore from "The Wizard of Oz" haha...

  • I've always hoped that Joan was not as crazy as Cristina said. If she was, then Cristina is probably braying and barking at the moon about now.

  • Just mute the video, without the introduction to the wizard of oz music, and the words about peace and happiness, you would easily guess that this was a horror movie, the pause as she walks down the step and looks back at the door she just closed to the room containing the body that she had just killed. Notice at around1:20 there is a children's carousel, important for any horror movie. Watch out for the hangers. But Joan, even though at times you were scary ,I still love ya!

    --Logan

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  • A real witch, superficial and egocentric!

  • In my opnion more kids need Joan style parenting. Have you SEEN the little brats running around?

  • God Bless Joan, she wasn't perfect, but who is?

  • mommie dearest was a sad attempt at an unreatful daughter to gain fame. I think everyone could make a film about their mothers and portray them as crazy violent women!! but yah know what who cares if she hit her kids sometimes little shits need to be put in place, a movie is just that a movie and its a shame that it has tarnished her reputation.

  • .....knowing your kids are safe in bed, all snug and cozy and tied from head to toe......

  • lol lol and these were the good old days???

  • omg its sad she was crazy in real life smh

  • She looks like an evil Snow White here. lmao

  • That sounds like the music from wizard of oz.

  • I love you Joan and a huge Thank You for your help. You are a legend.

  • WHAT A CRAZY

  • joan crawford best celeb fuc u

  • Lol This is creepy!!!

  • she is the best actress, cos she really hated and abused her kids

  • @debraange I agree This is so disturbing to me:(ï