The Most Awesome Villainous Women In Cinematic History

Joan Crawford

The 1981 film Mommie Dearest had audiences terrified at the evil and unmotherly nature of Joan Crawford, especially because the true story was written by Joan’s adoptive daughter Christina. Faye Dunaway played the unbalanced, evil and unfit mother and perfectly depicted some of Christina’s childhood.

The wire hangers scene became an iconic and disturbing scene that even traumatized actress Dunaway. Although the film was only based on Christina Crawford’s memoir, it was enough to give an insight into the unfit mother that Crawford was.