A psychological drama starring one film icon as another – the great Faye Dunaway as the great Joan Crawford – MOMMIE DEAREST (1981) painted a cinematic portrait of emotional abuse, earning its subject a place among the American Film Institute’s greatest film villains of all time – with one line, in particular, also entering the pantheon as one of AFI’s most memorable quotes: “No wire hangers, ever!”
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