Christina Crawford 1960 Interview On Joan Crawford
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- A September 19th, 1960 interview by Mike Wallace with Christina Crawford.
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" I want the things professionally that she has attained." Very telling.
Justin Hall Yes. That stood out to me too. VERY strongly.
Yes that did. I remember watching an interview with director Herb Kenwith, who worked with both of these ladies, and he said that Christina wanted to be Joan so badly that when she didn’t have the same success as her mother, she was so jealous and blamed her mother for her shortcomings.
Christina Crawford is very well spoken. At least her mother assured she had excellent diction.
What a pity this interview wasn't re-released at the same time the book was launched! It is SO revealing.
It is a load of crap. Spoiled brat. Liar.
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Christina started planning the story for her book a loooong time ago. She knew she didn't have the talent to cut it in showbuisness. I'm sure Joan had a few quirks as any parent does but Christina darling took it to a whole new level!!
Thanks, Bryan, you spoil us!
What a very interesting find this interview is.
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Very revealing. "Mommy Dearest" the movie, is unfortunately how a lot of people see Joan Crawford.
Deb Fleet cause they are deliberately ignorant 🤷🏻♀️
But if you listen to THIS and other videos where she's showing her narrsasistic side. Then watch the movie I've noticed that the people who played Christina seem to hit the nail on the head on how selfish of a child and person she is and that the things that her mother supposedly did in the movie seem to be either so far fetched or the kid was always a little shit and Joan had snapped a couple of times. But hearing that her other siblings, Joan's husbands/ partners, and the maids had Even Said that Christina was lying about those crazy allegations. I hope she gets the KARMA that she deserves. RIP To Miss Joan Crawford and May she forever be at peace and know that God See's All the bad and will take care of her when it's her time. Wish I was alive when Joan was alive. She's always going to be a great actress and a very elegant woman Xoxo 💋
Two sides to every story, and we have never heard Joan Crawford's
Right, and we never will
We have also heard from her other adopted children, her twins Cathy and Cindy, both adamantly defend their mother Joan against Christina’s LIES and jealousy. They said their mother was amazing and extremely loving and none of that abuse Christina claimed even happened
Notice how she never worked through any of her endeavors and admits to being impatient? That itself builds a substantial profile of her true character. She might have been better off doing striving for something she was actually good at-like the night hostess at Denny’s, as she reveals.
Christina certainly revealed exactly who she is, and what she's about in this interview.
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Christina was jealous of Joan, she resented she didn’t have her acting success or talent. Younger sisters Cindy and Cathy who lived in the same house said the abuse Christina talked about never existed. They said Joan was a loving mother who gave all of her children love and attention. They also stated she was a loving and devoted grandmother to their children.
Whatever the truth about the relationship between Joan and Christina. Nothing can detract from the fact that Joan was extremely hard working and professional. She made sure to know all of the crew who worked on her films and made them feel valued, getting them gifts etc. She also valued her fans. Always making time for them and personally answering all of her fan mail. She was a fantastic actress and I still enjoy watching her films today. God Bless Joan Crawford.
Yes!! I found the same information when I did my research. She was sick and jealous of Joan. She wanted to be famous at all cost. Even if that meant trashing Joan.
The twins also said that Christina had always lived in her own world like a different reality, which seems very obvious
It’s so interesting the difference between the way she describes her mother here, and in her book. In this interview, she does not describe Joan as abusive. She simply describes her as a mother with whom she has had personality clashes. In the book... well, we all know. I think the difference is that when she did this interview, Joan was still alive and able to defend herself, so she wasn’t able to get too outlandish in her description of her. Whereas with the book, Joan was already dead and couldn’t say anything about it, so all these episodes of physical abuse appear.
She was testing the waters.. since she never became the actress or rather legend her mother was, her next claim to fame would be axe grinding and slagging her mother's legacy.
Highly interesting! Thankx for posting!
I once believed everything Christina said but, now I really questione her??? I am putting it to bed and just wish to remember Joan Crawford as a great actress!!
Yes agree. Remember anytime a person waits until someone is dead to write a book so horrible, you can't believe it, even if it's true. That person who is no longer here is unable to defend theirselves . She is dirty
It's important to remember that Joan Crawford was a successful actress (whether we like her, or not) and Christina Crawford tried to make it and failed, despite the nepotism factor working in her favor. That seems to account for a lot of Christina Crawford's venom.
Her voice is so different from the one we heard on Larry king later. It’s not just age. She has good grammar and a soft genteel pronunciation. Maybe it was her acting experience or the influence of Joan. Nevertheless, she sounds very different in later interviews.
Yes i was thinking she sounds a little like joan here. What a pity the world was robbed of what she could have been - I wish joan had had a real and loving daughter
She reminds me of the daughter in "Mildred Pierce". That one was vile and nasty to the bone. The relationship sounds exactly the same as well. Art imitating life, or life imitating art. I don't know, but the parallels are uncanny.
You are 100% correct! She was in steep competition with her mother and she nervously laughs every time she lies.
Absolutely!! This girl didn't even stick to acting lessons let alone was good at anything!
Yes, I agree.
I had the same thought!
The irony is that the actress who played Joan's daughter, Veda in that film (Ann Blythe) apparently remained very good friends with Joan Crawford until her passing and has only ever had very kind words to say about her.
Gee, no wire hangers, no being forced to eat bloody raw meat, no beatings, just a seemingly normal yet complex relationship between a mother and daughter. I wonder why none of the horrific abuse she later claimed never came out during this interview? Maybe because her mother was still alive at this point and able to defend herself?
100% Little over entitled brat! Couldn't stick to anything. Didn't even graduate from anything!
um.. that would be it. She waited until her mother died so she would not be sued for libel.
@@creativewriter3887This.
Strange, the pictures of Joan and Christine on this interview. Christine has dressed to copy Joan almost exactly the same.
I love it! I think she copied Joan's style for this photo to further promote herself as Joan Crawford's daughter. After all...Joan Crawford was and is a BRAND.
I noticed that she also mimics Joan Crawford's speech cadence and patterns.
Crawford’s movie Rain used to come on late night TV when I was a kid, I really liked the movie and she was beautiful in it.
"My mother only saw me once while I was at school ... for three months, while we traveled through Europe." What a spoiled piece of work!!! She spent her entire life whining about Miss Crawford. Thanks for uploading this. If I ever had any doubt about who was to blame in this train wreck, I don't anymore.
I got a friend in her 90's now that was a child actress in the 30's. My friend did go visit Joan's house and said Christina was not nice. It's all just talk and everyone wants to look good.
Her saying that there may be "competition" between them because "They're both actresses" LMAO Christina! You wish. Her Mother at the time of this interview, had a career that spanned about 35 years and an Oscar... I'm pretty sure Christina's couple of gigs wouldn't concern Joan IF she ever cared about being competitive. This woman is a piece of work regardless of what happened or didn't happen.
Her friends said she asked them for work for her daughter .
Christina should have had my Mother, THEN she would have PLENTY to complain about!
She (Christina) actually admitted to being a problem child. Proof that Christina's book is only based on her distorted perspective. I love Joan and feel like she really got the bad end of the stick. However, she will live on being the most famous of her generation in Hollywood because of this controversy. Joan wanted to be famous, and regardless of good or bad publicity, she will always be remembered. Joan was and IS a beautiful soul.
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Not once did she mention abuse from Joan ?! Christina was given every advantage & opportunity but instead decided to support her entire career bashing her adoptive mother..
And she actually explains the issues between them and the reasons for some things very differently, and it makes more sense as reality.
She hadn't written the book yet at this point. She did after her mom died so her mom would not be able to defend herself. 😒
First, thank you for this valuable piece. I found this extremely interesting. How she must have hated Crawford. This interview is just a hint of what's coming. looking at the photo I see an anger she doesn't even fully realize yet. 1960 was the start of her catharsis.
I agree, this is a great youtube channel.
If I were Christina sisters I would copy all the checks that Joan Crawford sent to Christina from 1960 to 1977 that would pretty much say it all
How could she keep a job as a cashier if she was "traveling all the time"
She never mentions the physical abuse until she wrote her book.
until Joan died.
Because she's a liar.
Joan Crawford was well aware of the things that Christina was up to as far as these type of interviews went. I have seen what happens first hand, when you spoil a child and then they turn on you. My mother and father did this to my brother!! Some of Joan's friends said that Christina wanted to be, Joan Crawford!! And Joan had reportedly told someone that she knew Christina was waiting for her to die!! And for those who don't know Christina did contest the Will and was awarded money for her and her brother, Christopher.
I've never believed Christina,,she's very well rehearsed,and considering she claimed to be abused, she spoke very calmly no distress wotsoever..l think she was a very jealous spoilt little brat..
So do I. She mentions nothing about this so called abuse she claimed once Joan was dead. She wasn't a great actress at all. I guess she wrote the whole bullshit to finally bring attention to herself and to make money off her name.
my aunt adopted a girl who was exactly the same, always fabricating lies and a pretentious, entitled little bitch.
POOR JOAN, That's all I'm saying..
So very duplicitous. This broad will say anything, as long as it's to the press....
Everything she says kinda makes her mom sound good, good schools, and getting her jobs.She quit college and her jobs! I don’t believe her. She wanted to be her mom!
Love your channel ❤️ she’s my all time favorite movie star, but something also very real about her .. relatable.. you don’t see that anymore, my opinion
13:16. No dear. Joan is an actress, a true STAR. You are her daughter.
She laughs every time when she talks about a difficult situation the interviewer asked about .
I noticed that as well, someone who has been abused wouldn't have laughed, in fact it would have came out very bitter, and a tone of anger would have been the reaction, I really am beginning to doubt more about her book, it seems quite funny she waited until after her death, if she had been so horrible to Christina, she would have put her book out sooner and spoke out quite often
So much so that Wallace has actually chide her “okay, let’s get serious now.”
I wonder how joan mustve felt after these interviews
“Very revealing piece”..
Not sure what to make of this story, but what about Christopher, what about his opinions about Joan? I was abused in a horrific different way, I'm not laughing about what happened to me whatsoever. My father got it physically from his dad, but that said, genuine victims never ever laugh about it. It carries painful scars, believe me. But this story is different case. Not sure what to believe at this moment
This is no doubt what cinched it with Joan and christina. So far as having the will. She knew maybe even before this point that Christina was going to betray her in the form of a book. Wise woman. Screw Christina
...I'll give her this, once she realized that her acting career wasn't going to amount to much, or better still that she wouldn't achieve much fame from it; she did complete her education-and a very good one-pursuing another career. Whatever her shortcomings, she was a decent student and excelled in completing her education. I believe a great deal of her story, but I do believe that some things were exaggerated for the sake of sensationalism. Sadly, we'll never know the complete truth because Joan wasn't alive to defend herself.
"Some" things were exaggerated? Try most. And the rest wasn't even that bad! She seemed like an asshole little kid and even more asshole-ish teen. People who knew Joan and didn't even like her refuted Christina's bullshit. She made money off tarnishing Joan's legacy when she couldn't even defend herself. She is trash.
I don't believe a cent of what comes put of her mouth.
Mike Wallace doesn't seem very amused by Christina's giggling admissions of quitting everything Joan tried to help her with.
Christina Crawford's account of things forever contradict themselves; I'm not saying for a moment that Joan wasn't difficult, and alcoholic, with all the cruelty, erratic and punishing behavior that goes with it. Certainly the Eder/Stanwyck phone conversations are testament to that. But I do feel Christina has embellished a lot. Joan's other kids, and her grandchildren seem to have been raised by a totally different person, even if there was an age gap! Children of celebrities are very over looked as all the attention goes to the parent and jealousy plays it's part. So much is expected of them, and yet nothing is expected; look at Carrie Fisher's well documented relationship with Debbie Reynolds, and boy did they love each other! At some point EVERY child competes with the parent for their own identity, but when the child enters a race they just cannot win, things turn out oddly or badly. Most fascinating to me at the moment is Tom Hank's son who has assumed the identity of a rapper named "White Chocolate", with the affectation of the ghetto; which is VERY odd for a kid who went to Beverly Hills High. We human beings a funny old things, and celebrity just magnifies & distorts.
Well Put
Poor Joan. What a vexing daughter she had. You just know Christina got “soft-expelled” in a way so as not to create a public stir. So Joan had her sent to another private school. And then paid for Christina’s college, only for her to drop out after a year. And then got her a job in New York, only for Christina to quit. And her thanks was this slap of an interview and later a slaughter of a book. No good deed went unpunished for Joan. May she rest in peace.
She thought her mommy would get her a lead job immediately.. and yet Joan DID try to get Christina parts.. but per other people's accounts, she was NOT talented and could not/would NOT take any direction. She was jealous of her mother and just thought her mom would just shut up, put out the cash and let her do anything she wanted. So Joan pretty much stopped the gravy train.. and also we have to remember that Joan was working very hard to get parts and to keep her lifestyle. And Christina WAS jealous of her mother. This crap about "competition" is really on Christina's part and she said so.... but Joan WORKED for it for decades.. while Christina thought it should be handed to because she's her daughter.
After listening to this, I don’t believe Christina’s book anymore.
She comes across as a strong willed person and I’m sure Joan kept her in her place!
I believe Joan had quirks like any normal parent but Christina darling took her little lies to a whole new level! Mommie isn't around to defend herself so Christina thinks "I've won"..
Amazing you found this, Bryan. Thank you so much! I'll withhold my nasty opinion of Christina.
Hmm...why is she laughing at some of this stuff? This interview does make me wonder if she was 100% truthful about her mother.
Whatever this blonde girl says what she says, Joan Crawford will always be the queen of Hollywood! And the new generations will try to clear her name and return her to the throne of the Olympus of cinema.
She speaks very eloquently but sounds like she might have been a little rebel too !
Enter backstabbing stage right. She has spent 60 years of her 80 years on this earth "getting even" with her mother.
Her pausing between Mike's questions about why her Mother placed her in those situations, reveals Christina is lying; her silly giggle laughter is a shield of insecurity in reply to Wallaces truthful questions. This interview of one of many evidences that Joan knew about that lead to her being taken out of the Will. What an entitled person, she thought she was by thinking starting from the beginning and working her way to the top, as a Scholar or Actor.
My impression is that Christina is a very talented, intelligent, psychopathic actress.
Christina lied about her mother. Christina was jealous of her mother. She wanted to be Joan Crawford. She should be ashamed of herself.
It's A Hard Knock Life for Christina growing up in Hollywood after getting adopted by a famous movie star Who provided for her to live a lifestyle of luxury. Perhaps she never did get a chance to consider the alternative of life in the orphanage (where she really belonged) but went to boarding and reform schools instead. She has trashed her mother & become the poster child for abused children, even though she now admits it was not really physical abuse.
Perhaps she is just an entitled brat and wanted her mom to fund her entire life
Wow. Speaks volumes about this spoiled, entitled brat. She's done nothing but exaggerate these stories ever since.
B.S.
Ugh that sickening saccharine sweet cadence in her voice is absolutely revolting!
She wonders why she didn’t get an inheritance 🙄 she should have waited until she passed..
In 1960 Christina was 21 years old. She was brought as a child of queen. Private school, working mother, 3-4 months holiday
When she was expelled from school she says it's not true, it's about two people remembering things differently.
"I had will on my own "😂
I wasn't going with things she thought it was good for me"
So Christina wanted doing things her own way and it was destructive sabotaging herself. Joan was very intelligent and tried to hulp. But some children need to make their own mistakes. Maybe had she borderline personality disorder or other psychological problems. But blaming this on mother?
The impossibility of the child of a huge star trying to compete with, or follow in impossible footsteps; if one can't be famous, may as well become infamous. No doubt Joan was a tricky customer, but Mommie Dearest? I think this interview explains what came later, and reveals it to be mostly fiction.
I would love to read the Redbook article they refer to. Is it online somewhere? Thanks again, Bryan, for this most insightful audio into the mind of Christina C.
Yes, the Redbook article can be read on my website at the below link:
www.theconcludingchapterofcrawford.com/articles_1960_october_therevoltofjoancrawfordsdaughter.html
TheConcludingChapterofCrawford Very revealing.
Thank you for all of this!! Magnificently fascinating peek into human relations and psyches.
That was a very good read ! I ❤️ Joan .. no matter what has been said .. I read Christina’s book 🤷♀️ some of it seems believable, some seems like bs .. seems to be a lot of jealousy,
The link isn’t working for me. I tried twice and it says page no longer available.
I'm sorry, this this link:
www.theconcludingchapterofcrawford.com/article_1960_redbook_october
I loathe Christina. She was jealous because she wasn't half the woman Joan was. Lady, spend a day with my mother 30 years ago so you can see what abuse is.
Just listen how Christina's voice intonation is changing when he asks her about her abandoning the school . Wow , if this video isn't a proof that Christina lied about Joan then I don't know what should be brought more to the table to proof that Christina was and still is a lier .
Christina is very money-minded. She challenged Joan's will and sued for money. Joan did help her in movies.
this girls laugh gives me the creeps , a laugh in 1960 is no different from a laugh in 2022 but this laugh is somehow creepy
She is vague with her answers on several questions.
Funny, she has claimed the earliest she remember abuse is 4 now she is saying different. I think she recognizes people see through her crap and is trying to recover a shred of dignity. She is not anything like her mom. I say that because it appears in the photo she is trying to imitate her. Good luck Christine , good luck. She is such a liar. She already said in her book she was expelled
Sounds like Joan did everything she could do for her daughter.
And she really thought she was gonna get her inheritance after this 😄 Girl bye
Whether one believes Christina Crawford or not doesn't take away the fact that if Joan Crawford was so busy with her career she never should have been allowed to adopt children in the first place. Adoption agencies are to place children in a household and environment that would be secure and nurturing. With Joan Crawford's career and celebrity and multiple affairs and marriages she never should have been permitted to adopt. But back then and of course even now money talks.
Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. Are you saying adoptive parents who have careers and a sex life should not be allowed to have a child? What about biological parents who have careers? Elizabeth Taylor was a lifelong actress and she had four children. She was married SEVEN times. On top of that, she had many health issues early in life that could have prevented her from being an attentive parent. Would you say the same about Taylor?
Considering more than 50% of marriages in America end in divorce, and that's a conservative percentage, odds are the majority of biological parents are divorced from their child's other parent - if they were even married to begin with.
@@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford Very excellent point!
Oh please..you know how many people have careers that take them from home and date. An affair is when you are married. People are allowed to date. These kids were taken care of. Get over yourself
"I only saw her once." Then she reveals it was a 3 month vacation to Europe. Poor baby. Lol. At 12:09, again, boo hoo. Any parent would cut off a child that keeps quitting.
Hard to know if she was abused as she later claimed. Seems her mother did try to help her paying for her schooling and getting her work
Joan Crawford sounds like a REAL loving Mother... Cristina seems very spoiled and ungrateful
Little Cristina darling thought she would get revenge by writing that book all it did was make Joan Crawford Loved More her fans will always love her plus the new generation got too seet true Hollywood actress on film not this actors these Days leaving their house with sweats and tennis shoes and ungroomed
You can clearly tell Christina is envious and jealous of Joan. That's exactly what the problem was. Christina wanted things done her way and refused to work for it.
Such a vindictive piece of work she is.
Joan's fans know the truth.
Totally agree. How could so many people have believed what this spoiled, willful, and jealous Christina wrote? They must have hated Joan Crawford to begin with to believe all the lies her daughter wrote about her.
imho, She's Creepy.I question who her biological parents Mental backgrounds were.She's spoiled.Disrespects Herself, her Mother & other things.With all the opportunities she was given, she fails to find purpose &/or stick to it, except bashing/blaming everything on her adoptive mother.imho.
It is my opinion that Christina doesn't have a lot of credibility.
She's actually acting pretty good here. Watch her more recent interviews, she's such an ugly crow of a woman, vicious and nasty. Poor CC. She needs some serious therapy.
Christina was just mad that JC didn’t “pave the way “ for her in Hollywood. She gives a lot of clues here. So she went out and wrote a salacious book. Terrible woman.
My God. Just binge watching many of her interviews over the decades it's obvious she is a liar. She keeps changing her story. Nobody backs up any of her tales. Not even her siblings.
She was a jealous daughter and Joan was a marvelous woman, of course she tried taking down Joan Crawford because she was jealous of her stature.
It sounds like Joan did everything she could to point and encourage her daughter into a successful career yet Christina didn't want it. She seems very ungrateful towards her Mother and almost spiteful. This really makes me doubt alot of the accusations she has made towards Joan. I think that some abuse may have occurred due to Joans alcoholism as well as her frustrations in dealing with an obvious rebellious child.
Hearing this sounds a lot like Christina was jealous of Joan!!
This is the worst interviewer! Leading with false premises. Who complained of her short temper? The only two people I've ever heard disparage her are Christina and Bette Davis. Pretty sure jealousy is the root of it.
Bette Davis actually condemned Christina writing the book when Joan was no longer here to defend herself.
This is the legendary Mike Wallace.
Christana was never an actress except when lying about her mother.
Poor Joan!!
I notice how she just laughs off everything she might have done wrong. Joan and her husband did all to help her but she was impossible I have read many,many times.
Christina still making a career for money in disparaging Joan who gave her opportunities she never had; Mike Wallace, his hack son Chris of Fox News thinks he could fill his shoes, NO!
Irritating how she laughs in the beginning of almost all of her answers. Trying to disguise her lies??
Yeah, sorry bry... I kno you post a lot from Christina, but I truly believe she was just not the pick of the litter. Mayb Joan was wrong for adopting, and she had her reasons, but Christina had her own willful mind (as most children, let alone children of means, tend to do) and I usually do not give her words or voice any of my time.
But since I can't sleep... I'll give this piece a listen. 🙃 ❤️
I'm just looking at her daughters picture her she looks spoiled why air your crap in a book what happened to privacy everybody loved Joan is was a professional maybe you should of learned something from her 👍
thats just terrible to talk about ur mother christina is a little witch G od is going to get you nothing good will come to u
I do not like this girl at all. She has spend her entire adult life of belittling her Mother. None other of Joan's children has stepped forward with tales of abuse. She laughs about her will, but really she is seething inside. We all got spankens when we were children, but abuse? I don't believe her, and tired of her.
Neveh adopt someone else’s problem
I have three friends who were adopted, they're wonderful sensitive kind people , adoption is not inheriting someone else's problem. Children of adoption are loved ,and just as special as anybody else and no more of a problem then anybody else!
Wow, she’s sounds so manipulative! Not likable at all!