Christina Crawford

Christina Crawford ( born June 11, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and author. She is the adopted daughter of Joan Crawford.

Life

Christina Crawford was born in 1939 as a daughter together not married parents. Her father, a Navy soldier, was married to another woman. The mother was unmarried. In 1940 she was adopted by actress Joan Crawford. According to Crawford, she spent her childhood in the shadow of her mother. This had abused her both emotionally and physically. Crawford was married three times: with Medlinsky Harvey, David Koontz and Michael Brazzel. She is now divorced.

Career as an actress

Crawford worked in a number of plays with, including Splendor in the Grass of Summer stock theater, The complaisant lover, Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park.

In 1961 she had a supporting role in the movie Wild in the Country. In 1968 she had a starring role in the film Faces by John Cassavetes.

They also participated as an actress in the television series The Secret Storm, Medical Center, Marcus Welby, MD, Matt Lincoln, Ironside and The Sixth Sense.

Career after the death of his adoptive mother

After the death of Joan Crawford had Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher Crawford adoptee also learned that this had disinherited " of them well-known reasons ".

1978 Crawford wrote her autobiographical book Mommie Dearest. In this she describes her mother as a cruel, alcoholic and control freak. She was more interested in her career than in her adopted children. Child abuse had previously been rarely discussed in the U.S., but was moved by the book into the public consciousness.

In 1981, the book with Faye Dunaway and Diana Scarwid was filmed in the lead roles. Crawford yet published other books on the subject of " violence against children " and spent seven years as chairman of the Los Angeles ' Inter-Agency Council on Abuse and Neglect Associates.

• Mommie Dearest ( 1978) ISBN 0-9663369-0-9
• Black Widow: A Novel (1981 ) ISBN 0-425-05625-2
• Survivor (1988 ) ISBN 0-515-10299-7
• No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence (1994 ) ISBN 0-88268-184-2
• Daughters Of The Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origin and Aftermath (2003) ISBN 0-9663369-1-7