Remember When Hollywood Had Glamour?
Note: This outfit does not appear in Flamingo Road. This was a personal choice of Joan Crawford’s. Just try and name a star who could pull off hydrants today.
The Night Belongs To Joan Crawford
Today would be the legendary Joan Crawford's 108th birthday. Crawford was one of the most famous movie stars — and highest paid women — in the late 1920s and 1930s, and F. Scott Fitzgerald once called her "the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication,…
Daughter To Show Joan Crawford's Naked Home Videos
Not content with simply making her mother's name synonymous with bad parenting, Christina Crawford is developing a one-woman show in which she she'll share new details about her family — including never-before-seen home videos of a nude Joan Crawford. The play, which is titled Surviving Mommie Dearest, is based on her…
"How Do I Express My Joy At My Principal's Death?"
Today, Obit's Judy answers the plea of a teen who just wants to shout for joy now that a mean school principal is dead. Judy's advice was way too reasonable, so we asked a bunch of random dead people!
"A New Femininity Born Of Sunbathing"
This magazine article from 1937 claims that Joan Crawford adored sunbathing. Apparently she had an "exquisite ivory tan." [Modern Mechanix]
Dead Celebrity Scents: The Latest In Star Worship
Perfume made from the DNA of dead celebrities? Yes. It's kind of sad, in a way.
Even Psycho Moms Are Nice On Christmas Eve
Some Christmas cheer from a famous American mother, via Mommie Dearest.
Child Abuse Is Not Funny, But Mommie Dearest Is
People always cite Mommie Dearest as the end of Fay Dunaway's career as a legitimate actress, which is unfortunate. Her performance is campy and over-the-top, sure, but it's also kind of spot-on, especially considering the source material is traumatic childhood memories. The other thing is that she is unintentionally…
Susanna Sonnenberg Adds Another Chapter To The Unhinged Mother Canon
In today's New York Times, famously-scurrilous book critic Michiko Kakutani gives a rave review to Her Last Death, Susanna Sonnenberg's debut memoir about her totally batshit mother, "Daphne." While Sonnenberg's mom "possessed a magical charm and a contagious, manic enthusiasm, especially in...her…

