![]() Springer had brought me together with her some time earlier in the hope that I could produce an intimate biography of one of the most enduring of Hollywood stars, who had made more than 80 films in a career that started in 1925 and ended in 1970. I prefer to cut off people who want to hurt me, rather than to continue to give them power over me to go on inflicting pain.”Īs we lunched that day, Crawford was dying of cancer. I’ve learned that there are people who will hurt you if you let them-even if you don’t let them. I find it very positive and comforting and a kind of protection. You know, Johnny, I’ve become a Christian Scientist. “Why spoil days of your life reading a book that can only hurt you? It’s against my beliefs. ![]() Springer asked her if she planned to read the book. ![]() Obviously referring to her adoption of Christina, she said, “No good deed goes unpunished.” “I suppose she doesn’t think that I’m going to leave her enough or that I’m going to disappear soon enough.” She sighed. “I think she’s using my name strictly to make money,” Joan told us. ![]() They spoke about it with a sense of foreboding, though they had no idea that it would turn out to be the prototype of angry books by the children of stars. It was clear as I listened to Joan Crawford and her longtime friend and publicist, John Springer, at a lunch in 1976, almost two years before the publication of Joan’s daughter Christina’s book Mommie Dearest, that they knew it was forthcoming. ![]()
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