"It's like Greek tragedy," says actor Xander Berkeley of Faye Dunaway's over-the-top performance as the celebrity mom from hell. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Of course, everything was far from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A camp classic, an unsung masterpiece, "Mommie Dearest" has been accused of many things, but never of being forgettable. Frank ...

“Mommie Dearest” is a mother’s insanity seen through the eyes of a daughter, while “Rosemary’s Baby” offers up the terror of impending motherhood. Both are dark, but border on campy after all these ...

There is no better movie than this kind of movie when you’re home on a Saturday afternoon… with a slight hangover. – John Waters, commentary track, Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition Watching ...

The 1981 film Mommie Dearest—with Faye Dunaway as abusive glamour goddess and terrible mother Joan Crawford—was supposed to be a prestige film, but it ended up becoming a derided camp classic, ...

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The author of the new book "With Love, Mommie Dearest" tells IndieWire about the making of an unintentional camp classic, from on-set injuries to drunken antics and Dunaway's alleged perfectionist ...