David Thomson
“…. Mommie Dearest … [was] brought to the screen, without any effort to balance or challenge the injured daughter's point of view. In the movie, Faye Dunaway offered a brilliant but lynching impersonation in which startling resemblance overwhelmed tougher tests of character credibility. And so Joan Crawford has passed into myth as a demented martinet whose greatest need or belief concerned padded clothes hangers….”
David Thomson
A Biographical Dictionary of Film
Third Edition, p. 154
("Joan Crawford")
“In the eighties, Dunaway slipped out of leading actress parts, though not before her magnificent impersonation of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest…, a performance that deserved a more humane approach. As it was, Dunaway was herself touched by the grotesqueness of Crawford (she might have been more at ease in the 1930s) and the film may have made her unpopular in Hollywood--or added to her own reputation for being difficult….”
Thomson, p. 214
David Thomson
A Biographical Dictionary of Film
Third Edition, p. 154
("Joan Crawford")
“In the eighties, Dunaway slipped out of leading actress parts, though not before her magnificent impersonation of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest…, a performance that deserved a more humane approach. As it was, Dunaway was herself touched by the grotesqueness of Crawford (she might have been more at ease in the 1930s) and the film may have made her unpopular in Hollywood--or added to her own reputation for being difficult….”
Thomson, p. 214
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