![]() ![]() So effective was Dunaway in this performance that her acting career subsequently suffered for it in years to come, and younger audiences who didn’t know Crawford in life accepted that that’s how she really was. She’s Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, portraying her as a glamorous ice princess, a gorgon, a drag queen, and an unstoppable killing machine, Jason Voorhees in Christian Dior. She does smile, sometimes, but it rarely reaches her eyes, which only truly light up when she’s in a rage. It frames a face so carefully made it appears immobile at times, except for her crimson lips, which are too often set in a thin line of displeasure, when they’re not curled into a sneer. Her hair is styled to within an inch of its life, an impenetrable helmet surrounding her head. She looms over everything around her, all sharp lines and crisply ironed edges. ![]()
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