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Hollywood Crime Scene

Episode 144 - Mommie Dearest Part 2

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our series on Mommie Dearest we talk about Christina's teen years, Joan's new husband and business endeavors, and life in New York.

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Hollywood Crime Scene. This is Rachel Fisher.

0:02.8

Hi, this is Densy Jettakin and Romi. She's sitting on the table.

0:08.5

So let's start out the show by thinking our lovely Patreon contributors.

0:14.0

They donated over at patreon.com slash Hollywood crime scene.

0:19.4

And this week we had Taylor Ursula, Jamie Shelby, John, Sarah, Kevin,

0:27.0

Riannan, Jennifer, Anna, Christina, Alondra, Gloria, Debbie, Jordan, and Gabriela.

0:36.1

Thanks guys. Thank you guys so much. They have access to like 115 different bonus episodes.

0:42.8

So if you're running out of content, go over to patreon.com slash Hollywood crime scene and

0:47.5

there's a ton of stuff over there. Cool. Yeah. Okay, Densy, if you haven't listened to

0:53.6

part one of mommy dearest, go back. We're doing part two today. Okay. Where we left off

1:02.8

Christina or Christina Crawford. Was it school? Her mother had hired someone to clean out her closet

1:11.1

and take all but two dresses that she had to wear for four months, humiliating her.

1:17.2

I mean, to be honest, I wear the same two dresses.

1:23.2

I kind of wear the same thing every day too, especially now.

1:26.8

Well, especially now, but even then, you have your two favorite dresses that you just throw on.

1:30.9

Right. I mean, I do. But when you're in high school, it's more everyone's seeing you.

1:36.4

No one sees me, so it doesn't really matter exactly. I just wear what's most comfortable right now.

1:40.0

Absolutely. So, but she had to wear the same two dresses for four months and she was mortified.

1:45.6

She's like 14 years old, 13 years old at this point. So, this is like a humiliating thing for her

1:52.4

to have to endure. By 1952, Joan had left Warner Brothers and she hadn't done a film as good as

2:00.6

Mildred Pierce, which was back in 1945. So, she wasn't doing like these successful films during the

2:09.1

last few years she was with Warner Brothers. And she just was like all these scripts that you're

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