

It was a small cottage when she bought it, but most of the house, she built. Every single family that has lived in that house has had horrible things happen. Christina later said, “Every single owner (of the house) has had trouble…The first one was Crawford. The owners decided to have the house exorcised numerous times. Years later when the house was sold, the then owners began to experience odd fires breaking out in the home and even children’s voices crying in the walls. In that book and in subsequent interviews Christina claimed her childhood home in Brentwood was haunted by malevolent spirits and that whenever something strange happened or a ghost appeared she’d fearfully try telling her mother which only led to further vindictive punishment. Her daughter Christina wrote a damning tell-all of her abusive childhood with her adoptive mother titled Mommie Dearest. Keystone, Hulton Archive, Getty Images,, ,, Baron, Getty ImagesĬrawford was one of the most prolific actresses of her time with a career spanning almost 50 years in classic films like Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Rain (1932), Johnny Guitar (1954), and her Academy Award-winning performance in Mildred Pierce (1945).
