Her formal education was limited, something that haunted her all her life. He recounts her physically and emotionally abusive Dickensian childhood. Spoto proves that Crawford was born Lucille Le Seuer in 1906, not 1908 as she claimed, and not 1904 as her daughter asserted. The latest is Donald Spoto's Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford (William Morrow, $25.99).
Over the last decades, however, more nuanced information about the actress has emerged, mitigating much of the harm done by the book and the 1981 film starring Faye Dunaway. The 1978 publication of Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford's vicious memoir about her adoptive mother, classic Hollywood's Joan Crawford, seemed to have permanently damaged the superstar's reputation.
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