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Films Directed by Frank Perry (Study Guide): Mommie Dearest, the Swimmer, David and Lisa, Doc, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Trilogy

Films Directed by Frank Perry (Study Guide): Mommie Dearest, the Swimmer, David and Lisa, Doc, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Trilogy


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This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Mommie Dearest, the Swimmer, David and Lisa, Doc, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Trilogy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mommie Dearest is a 1981 American biographical drama film about Joan Crawford, starring Faye Dunaway. The film was directed by Frank Perry. The story was adapted for the screen by Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchner, Frank Perry and Frank Yablans, based on the 1978 book Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford. The executive producers were Christina's husband, David Koontz, and Terrence O'Neill, Dunaway's then-boyfriend and soon-to-be husband. The film was a financial success, but a critical disaster and was eventually disliked by Dunaway herself. However, it has become a cult classic. Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as the self-control she exhibits. To prepare for a work day at MGM Studios, she rises at 4am and engages in a slightly neurotic morning ritual, scrubbing her face vigorously with soap and boiling hot waterthen plunging her head into a vat of ice and alcohol to close the pores. Joan is obsessed with cleanliness and wants those around her to follow her instructions to the letter. When a new maid, Helga (Alice Nunn), thinks she has Joan's living room in spotless condition, Joan finds one minute detail that she overlooked and momentarily loses her temper proclaiming "If you can't do something right, don't do it at all!." She very clearly intimidates the maid, as well her new live-in personal assistant, Carol Ann (Rutanya Alda). Joan is in a steady romantic relationship with Hollywood lawyer Gregg Savitt (Steve Forrest), but her career is in a bit of a downswing. She reveals to Greg...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2079686


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156924228
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Mommie Dearest, the Swimmer, David and Lisa, Doc, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Trilogy
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1156924227
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr


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