The film "Mommie Dearest" was based on the book of the same name written by Christine Crawford, and it was about her mother, Joan Crawford. It's safe to say that this may very well be the most hilarious and misguided film in history, and I will never grant it higher than a smoked ham, but I do feel sorry for Faye Dunaway. She was only doing her job as an actress. I can't help but feel that she was robbed of her dignity, and as most people would say she brought it on herself, or that she never had dignity to begin with, I will say otherwise. She's merely an actress, one of the best to be exact, and she was only jumping at the chance to star in what could have been a good film. Saddly the film was a disaster, even more sad, Dunaways character was the ruins of Hollywood glamor, and Dunaway was, I feel, wasting her time portraying cheap trash of the likes of Joan Crawford. I don't feel it was completely Faye who ruined the role, I feel the role was the role. Joan Crawford was just a cheap, ridiculous, impudent whore of Hollywood Babylon, who would do anything for anything. Faye Dunaway was just doing what she could to bring out that part of her that could empathize with the horrid actress she portrays in the film. The problem with the film is that it is about Joan Crawford, period. Anybody wasting their time on that stupid drama queen of a strumpet has to be out of their minds, god knows I'm out of mine for reviewing this movie that pays tribute to the most gruesome actress of all, but in Faye's defense, I think I'll say a bit more. Faye was not, and is not a bad actress, she's one of the best, and this movie, in all it's campy, inglorious flames, might prove as well as disprove. I say she portrayed the part perfectly. It's not that Faye Dunaway is a bad actress, but rather that Joan Crawford was just stupid, silly, over-the-top trash, simple as that. In recent days, Ms. Dunaway reserves the right to remain silent about this embarrassment, and why not, anything Crawford touched was ultimate trash, and she was herself trash, and Ms. Dunaway was and is sheer delight and talent, and nothing will change that. Hat's off to Faye Dunaway for doing what she could with what she had. as for Joan Crawford... rot in hell!
Review of Mommie Dearest
