Ashley Hoff met Christina Crawford, who wrote the tell-all exposé about her movie-star mother Joan Crawford, at a 1998 screening of the book’s movie adaptation, “Mommie Dearest,” at the ...

May 7 will see the publication of "With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic," a new book that tells the story of the making of, and the aftermath of the now legendary ...

Hoff has written a new book, "With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic." It explores how a box office bomb morphed into a cult classic over the years. It also ...

In 1978, her adopted daughter, Christina, published Mommie Dearest, a memoir that revealed the abusive reality of her life in the Crawford household. The book became a controversial bestseller and ...

Exclusive: As a new making-of book reveals, the cost and talent expended on "Mommie Dearest" were astronomical — and just the beginning of the infamous biopic going over the top. Mother’s Day ...

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 ...

But her daughter Christine's tell-all memoir of shocking child abuse, Mommie Dearest, threw the doors open on the issue in 1978. The groundbreaking book revealed their home as a battleground ...

A new book by Hollywood historian A. Ashley Hoff, “With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic,” reveals the difficulty Dunaway experienced filming the movie’s ...

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Christina Crawford opened up about the film’s famous title, saying that, “‘Mommie dearest’ was a term of enslavement. If we just called ...

Ashley Hoff, a film historian and the author of the new book "With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic," told IndieWire. "A lot of people have watched this film many ...