‘Mommie Dearest’s Rocky Road to Becoming a Cult Classic
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett Collection
Anna Maria Italiano from the Bronx traveled almost as far to become Anne Bancroft as Lucille LeSueur did to become Joan Crawford.
When she was one month short of graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a casting director gave her a role in Turgenev’s Torrents of Spring for the TV show Studio One. The following year she tested for a movie role at 20th Century Fox. Studio head Darryl Zanuck saw her screen test...
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