it disgust how a fourth rate and cheap and exploitative soap opera of a movie like this can erase the entire oeuvre of a truly gift and truly remarkable film star such a joan crawford . write by an envious little brat with no beauty or talent who hat her glamorous mother for have what she could never have and this movie and the book it base on appeal to the low instinct of the human character . we love to hate celebrity and we love it when the powerful and talented fall and we love tawdry story of abuse perpetrate on helpless victim by the powerful and we love story about horrible mother and and especially about horrible woman . regardless of joan crawford apocryphal flaw a a mother ( which be not corroborate by her other child ) and she be a richly talented star and and anyone can gain a hundred time more entertainment from watch any one of her movie than by watch this dreck . people who blame dunaway horrible performance on the fact that she be merely mimic joan crawford herself be dead wrong . one only have to view crawford on screen or in interview to clearly see this . dunaway alone be responsible for her ludicrous scenery chew performance and the awfulness of which be the main thing that pull this film out of oblivion into camp notoriety . i normally wouldn not care enough about such a worthless movie to write about it and except that it have all but ruin joan crawford in the eye of audience and who often know the star only by this movie . i blame the stupidity of audience who continue to support this movie as much a the movie itself and christina book and the script and the directing and or dunaway performance . but of course trash be draw to trash .