The Mommie Dearest Family At Christmas

That tree looks like a hideous hanukkah bush.

Hold me Christina, I'm terrified.

Interesting they used a 4x3 print for this upload. You can see some picture at the top and bottom not present in the widescreen release.

One site says flocked trees "gained popularity in the1950s", but were only ubiquitous in the 60s (my grandmother debuted her version in 1964).

Did William Haines advise Miss Crawford about her Xmas decorations?

Needs more vicious slapping.

Now we know why Joan needed the axe.

[quote] The Christmas tree in the backrground looks too contemporary.

TINA! Bring me the chopping axe and the bitchy OP from this thread.

Christopher looks like a baby Ellen

So does Faye, who always seemed to come across as, sound like and play Faye in this and in all her films.

I love the watchful face Joan makes while Christina is giving her corny sound bite to the reporter. She looks like she's prepared to beat her kid unconscious if she fucks up.

I’m, wrong—flocked trees peaked in the 60s and were over by the mid 70s. It’s a perfect fit for her Hollywood regency interiors.

Right after the radio team left, Joan took off everything she was wearing off but her slip; started chugging straight from a couple of bottles of hard liquor; shoved Tina Darling into the tree for not completing her evening quota of Christmas cards; then yanked her out of the tree and starting smacking the little cunt across the face until Carol Ann and the other domestics raced to stop her.

Joan then passed out.

Carol Ann attempted to get her up and into bed, but not before a handsy Joan tried to feel up her tits and finger Carol Ann’s pussy. Finally, she got Joan into the bed, where she passed out.

Then she heard Christopher crying. He pissed the bed because of those goddamn restraints.

At that point she muttered , “JESUS CHRIST,” as she wearily walked to Christopher’s room to change the sheets.

Lol OP. That's classic MCM. It only looks "too contemporary" because you grew up with one your mom bought at Wal-Mart in 2002.

Is that JohnAbbott I see? WELL, IS IT???

R13- This scene is set in the 1940's NO WAY those white christmas trees were in vogue yet.

r15, Joan was a trendsetter in Christmas trees?

The real-life radio broadcast.

R15 1949-50 it fits well within the timeline of the rise and fall of Flockkking

They must eat breakfast before coming into the tree!

They earn their gifts!

Excellent training for children to learn you don’t get to keep all of your presents!

I think Christopher was dubbed, by June Foray.

She was whack—even on a radio Xmas show!

"That's not flocking. That's Clark Gable's cum spray. It always put me in the mood for the holidays."

In NYC, a drag performance titled “Christmas with the Crawfords” was a lot of fun. One really clever touch involved two performers dressed in coordinated velvet children’s outfits in blond wigs greeting ticket goers in the lobby. I remember they stayed in character, all timid and frightened-looking, they half whispered “thank you for coming…” They looked sort of lost and traumatized and painfully shy. It was great.

Those poor kids with their scripted answers.

Same with Dorothy Kilgallen's kids' scripted answers in their 1950s Person to Person interview.

E25 Fun for 15 minutes—then repeat repeat run! I was there.

R25^

R25

Marlene Dietrichs daughter Maria wrote about her first Hollywood christmas when Dietrich took her to Bullock´s on Wilshire. The little girl was completly mesmerized by the giant christmas tree on display because it was covered in "snow" and had blue electric lights and decor. Maria remembers being in a sapphire daze for the rest of the day and speaking of nothing but that tree. Marlene bought the tree and surprised her daughter with twenty feet high magic.

That was in 1931.

R29 a little goes so far, as mentioned

Bullock´s on Wilshire

Really? Oh dear oh double dear!!

R30

Some day, when you’re older—you’ll remember this day and thank me/us.

Bullocks Wilshire and Bullocks are not the same thing.

R32 R33

Thanks for the correction.

I promise i will remember this day when i´m older and will thank you by dancing on your graves.

"We don't want your castoffs, bitch!"

Every time I watch a scene from Mommie Dearest I think "Thank God I didn't grow up in that house."

Maria Riva is still alive at 100 years old.

[quote]This scene is set in the 1940's NO WAY those white christmas trees were in vogue yet.

The scene is set in the late forties or early 50s. Christina Crawford was born in 1939. She's not a newborn, she has a younger brother who is not a newborn and, yes, these trees were popular then. Why wouldn't they be?