Joan Crawford: The Last Word

By Fred Lawrence Guiles

Book Overview

Joan Crawford: The Last Word does not cloak the dark side of Crawford's nature. This unbiased account restores the much-needed balance between those who regard her as the monster depicted in Mommie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155972269X
• ISBN13: 9781559722698
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Fair and balanced

You may be able to find this in a used bookstore for a few dollars. I would recommend finding this book that way. This was a good book but probably not one you would read over and over. Not much new information here that wasn't told in Bob Thomas's book. New pictures though, and those are always nice. I appreciated how the author did not make any attempt to discredit Christina Crawford, and this book was a fair look into Joan's life. Guiles reflects on some situations from "Mommie Dearest" that he claims are inaccurate, but I don't believe them. He writes that Christina says Joan pulled her out of Chadwick and then told people she had been expelled. But Guiles says that school wasn't even in session then. Yeah, what's new? Christina does say that school was indeed not in session when that happened, and was kept there as a punishment. So that wasn't an inaccuracy on her part. This was a good book and if you are very interested in it you could probably finish it in one day.