Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother ... the twins’ adoption had been arranged before their birth, and their birth mother died less than a week after they were born.

Christina was one of five children Crawford adopted ... who was later reclaimed by his birth mother; a second boy, also named Christopher, in 1943; and twin girls, Catherine (Cathy) and Cynthia ...

was reclaimed by his birth mother within a year of the adoption). But when her eldest adoptive daughter, Christina Crawford, released the tell-all memoir Mommie Dearest in 1978 — within a year ...

Orloski of South Whitehall Township attached birth certificates for ... were each left $77,500 in their mother’s will. Christina and Christopher Crawford got nothing. Born in Tennessee, LaLonde ...

Crawford was unable to have kids, so she adopted five: a girl, Christina, in 1940; a boy, Christopher, in 1942, who was reclaimed by his birth mother soon after; a second boy, also named ...

(Crawford died in 1977.) “She had learned how to be a dancer, she had learned how to be an actress, she had learned how to be a star,” Christina writes of her mother in Mommie Dearest.

The relationship between Christina Crawford and her adoptive mother Joan Crawford is presented from Christina's view. Unable to bear children, Joan, in 1940, was denied children through regular ...

Bettmann/ Getty Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother physically and emotionally abused her and Christopher in her 1978 tell-all memoir Mommie Dearest. (The book was ...