
She has also hosted a regional TV show which won three Telly awards for excellence, run her own businesses for 30 years and published her own books. County and as the first woman county commissioner in Benewah, Idaho. She served as the first Childrens Services Commissioner for L.A. Her acting credits include several Broadway productions, the Elvis Presley vehicle “Wild in the Country” (1961) and several television productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Crawford’s other books include “No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence” (1994) and “Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness” (2003).

In 2012, she wrote and starred in “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” a documentary film based on her own one-woman multimedia play. Christina Crawford is an American actress and author best known for “Mommie Dearest” (1978), an autobiographical account of her abuse-filled childhood as the adopted daughter of Hollywood star Joan Crawford, later adapted into a 1981 movie starring Faye Dunaway.
