Not the Girl Next Door
Subtitle: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781416547518
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; 1908-1977; Biography; Crawford, Joan,; Motion picture actors and actresses; United States
Description: In this new biography, Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. As a result, this biography is a brand-new look at one of Hollywood's most acclaimed stars. Although her adopted daughter Christina would publish the scathing memoir Mommie Dearest after Crawford's death, Chandler offers a contrasting portrait, drawing in part on reminiscences of younger daughter Cathy among others. The result is an intimate portrait of a great star who was beautiful, talented, glamorous, and surprisingly vulnerable.--From publisher description.