Joan's father left the family when she was a child, writes Spoto, and she was raised by her mother and stepfather Henry Cassin, who gave Crawford the nickname "Billie" and whom she believed was ...

Old Hollywood star Joan Crawford was estranged from two ... but the adoption never materialized. Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother physically and emotionally abused ...

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford both had storied careers ... He was married to Crawford at the time of his death. Crawford’s eldest child has questioned the validity of his cause of death.

One, Bette Davis, was a child star. Her sister, Joan Crawford, was a failure as a child but a great success as an adult movie star. Miss Davis’ adult failure and her mad belief that her sister ...

“They were raised as twins. She (Joan Crawford) called them twins,” Christina Crawford reportedly said. “Her career needed a boost, and one child alone wasn’t going to get her the ...

“Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of ... Joan decided to adopt her own child—facilitated, Christina claims, by the gangster Meyer Lansky since adoption by a single woman was illegal ...

Revisiting the original tell-all book about Joan Crawford ahead of Sunday’s newest ... over the course of her lifetime (her second child, a boy, was reclaimed by his birth mother within a ...

“When she was Joan Crawford, she was Joan Crawford and that ... “She was always this poor, abused, wretched child from San Antonio that no one wanted,” she says, going on to tell of the ...

Joan Crawford was an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, beloved until her death in 1977. But her daughter Christine's tell-all memoir of shocking child abuse, Mommie Dearest, threw the doors open on ...