MOMMIE DEAREST star dishes FAYE DUNAWAY/ "Carol Ann" RUTANYA ALDA bares all at SF's Castro Theatre 

my mother was abusive and she behaved just like Faye in this movie... she scared the shit out of me... she should a got an oscar

Wow, I can't believe how good she looks!

Rutanya Alda is always a welcome sight. Great speaker. Very entertaining.

I've recognized her in several movies. Nice to know she can appreciate campie humor.

It’s horrible when the executives think of the actor as the parts that they play. Faye did one of the best acting performances ever recorded on film.

I remember when the dailies were being shown at the studio, everyone was talking Oscar nomination for Dunaway !

OMG the ending was the best! That must have been so much fun for them.

I love Rutanya, she's my friend and my favorite actress.

She looks fantastic and what a funny eloquent speaker. Really enjoyed this upload

In fairness to Faye Dunaway, I thought it was an exceptional performance - definitely not something to be ashamed of! Joan Crawford was a BIGGER than life screen legend and a bravura performance was required to do justice to the character. Well done Faye!

This was so great to see!!!

Faye should of been the first person that year on the Oscars list her performance was mesmerising. You cannot take your eyes of her she is/was Joan Crawford. Whether the story is true or not Faye delivered a performance like never before seen it was stunning and shocking and has to be in my top 5 movies of all time.

Bette Davis, very publicly on the Johnny Carson show, also trashed Faye Dunaway for being impossible, difficult and unprofessional. Rutanya is in excellent company.

Mommie Dearest is an entertaining movie. It obviously is a gay favorite. I love the sets in the movie, the fashion, Faye's performance, the friction between Joan and christina, the board room scene, and the wire hanger scene is quite memorable. It's a very quotable movie. It's just good camp. Faye should not be embarrassed by this movie. She should just embrace it.

Absolutely entertaining!

This was great!

I don't like difficult people, but no one can argue Faye Dunaway channeled Joan Crawford perfectly in the movie. I don't believe anyone else could have pulled that off.

Who could forget FD in Bonnie&Clyde?

I'd love to meet Rutanya. I loved her in Mommie Dearest and Amityville 2.

Miss Alda looks amazing!

love her great fun and brilliant.

i agree with some here that it's wrong to dish Faye, but it was cool to hear Carol Ann's voice again. It hasn't changed since the movie.

It's been an accepted fact that Faye Dunaway was a very difficult lady to work with. However, she does NOT deserve THIS! If anything, I think her performance as Joan Crawford was TOO good in that it made Hollywood very uneasy. Miss Crawford had only been dead for three years at the time and still had a lot of friends in Hollywood who probably knew the truth anyway. I've always considered Dunaway to be a truly gifted actress. I saw her portray Maria Callas in "Master Class" in Chicago and she was outstanding. I think that "Mommie Dearest" was made too soon after Crawford's daughter's book came out and amazingly enough, made no reference to Miss Crawfords two younger daughters, who were on the scene during the time frame depicted in this film. Nevertheless, Miss Dunaway threw herself into this film like a dervish and received much derision for it. I think Miss Dunaway would have been better off had she never done the damn movie in the first place.

Love Rutanya's book!

Thank the Goddess for Marc Heustis!

I love the voice-over - CAROL AAAANNN!

I have never met or heard from anyone, except the money producers, who didn't hate Dunaway as a person

Can she blame Mara for being terrified? lol

She looked fabulous!

She should just embrace the film and have fun with it. It's part of her body of work and she can't escape it. I give kudos to Patty Duke for finally relaxing a bit and enjoy the legacy of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

I loved her in an episode she appeared in Law and Order - Criminal Intent. I assumed from that appearance that she had been an established, successful actress.

This movie's a camp classic for sure, but the sad part is that for some of us what was depicted in this movie isn't too different than living with our mothers. My mother, named after Joan Crawford, was just like her. A rage-aholic who screamed, broke things, beat me and my brother. As a thank you, I sent her a "Mommie Dearest" Mother's Day Card. And NO, she did not like it!

"Keep the children out of the garden!!"

it's odd that this film killed Dunaway's career as a star, because her performance is a tour de force. Hollywood is very conservative. What really killed her career was probably her ego and unprofessionalisim.

This actress is great! She was in a horror movie from the 80s called "Girls nite out". It's got a great twist ending.

I knew the queen who bought that house went there for a party in the 80's , it was great

She is so loveable!!

It's very disturbing to me that even after all this time, people actually laugh at the whole "wire hanger" scene, real or imagined, it was pure CHILD ABUSE. Rutanya Alda should have known better than that, she's really made the most of her fifteen minutes of fame here.

You have the wrong Irene. You're thinking of IRENE (LENTZ) who professionally went by 'Irene'. She was the one who jumped out a window of a hotel back in 1962. She was good friends with DORIS DAY & a few of her films to design the clothing for were DAY'S films MIDNIGHT LACE, and LOVE COME BACK. IRENE SHARAFF lived into her 80s and died of natural causes (heart attack).

Rutanya Alda looks amazing. Really. Whatever her ancestry is it keeps her vibrant.

I saw a Birthday card a few years ago that I bought and kept myself. It was a still picture from the 'wire hanger' scene. Faye was waving a wire hanger over Christina and you opened it up and it said "Happy Birthday you little bitch!".

Once for Mother's Day, I sent my mother a card with Joan Crawford and Christina Crawford. My mother named after Joan, and living with her was just like the movie and book "Mommie Dearest." Oh, and Mum did NOT like the card!

I think, Faye Donaway, did a great job in the movie, another particular line that does stick with me regarding the movie was the board office scene, “she said, fellas, don’t fuck with me!!! V 7:40

she is so funny

He called her character Carol Lynn instead of Carol Ann.

Was Rutanya in "when a stranger calls" does anyone know? I`d not seen her act before ,but something clicked and i knew i had watched her at some point.Just wondering..:)

I read her diary I enjoyed it kind of wish there was a little more scoop on some of the famous people that she had run into had contact with... to me the character of CarolAnn is complicit, in these abuses against the children, because she does nothing, I kept waiting for her to say Joan that's enough! but it never happened ..CarolAnn, if she's based on a real person, is complicit in that abuse, if it happened that way IMO

Fayes transformation was uncanny.

Who was "Mamacita"?

I dont see why Irene Sharaff would Lie, she was known for being brutally honest.

Gotta admit this was quite funny - don't know enough about Faye dunaway to have an opinion but have hear she's major Diva - but to have a show contibuting to dissing her - bit tacky relly and doesn't show this actress in a very great light whethe it be true or not

She is only dishing Faye Dunaway because of the audience at the Castro Theater in San Francisco and she know what they want to hear.

Ummm - except for the fact that Rutanya has been working regularly. You might want to look up her IMDB

PS I am referring to Carol Ann, not Mia

I can't really understand Faye Dunaway's discomfort with this movie. She should embrace it, it's not like her career is defined by it. She was in freaking Chinatown !

Especially back in the late '70s and early '80s cocaine was abundant; most everyone in Hollywood (not all, but MOST) were on it. Plus she was married to the leader of the J.Giles Band, a popular band at the time. Obviously, I haven't witnessed Dunaway taking a toot or two, but I'd be surprised if she didn't.

Everyone says the same thing about Faye Dunaway 🥴

Wouldn’t it be great to go to an audience participation showing of Mommie dearest, like the rocky horror picture show. Everybody can dress as a character from the movie , take wire hangers, shout out the lines 😂😂😂

carol ann couldn't even keep the children quiet and out of the garden that one day, when joan needed her rest.

::fainting in absolute bliss!:: clunk!

Fantastic! So glad she doesn't seem to mind being known as Carol Ann. But with the things she said about Faye, I wonder if she got a ranting phone message from her... ;)

Bette Davis, ironically, was highly vocal about Faye's behavior off-camera "staying up all night drinking champagne while being chauffeured around!" and then keeping Davis and hundreds of extras waiting the next morning during the filming of "The Disappearance of Aimee [McPherson]" in 1976. Remind any of us of someone Faye played 5 years later? Bette must have thought she was reliving a nightmare...

Fun. At the risk of name dropping...I had a dinner with Terrence McNally a few years ago, and he told a story about working with Faye (it must have been for 'The Master Class') - that at some later point in Europe, he had talked to Roman Polanski at a party and Roman asked him if Faye Dunaway was still crazy.

1:28. Exactly what do you mean, Ms. Alda?

who is david koons? 2:54

Rutanya Alda is NOT, I repeat, NOT related to Robert or Alan Alda. Merry Christmas.

Does anyone know her background, she has an interesting name.

I agree, especially when that's the only part anybody remembers her in.

I love the gays!!!!

da yego

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

I'm gay and yes, I love the movie, BUT to see a person who worked with Faye in that movie to just be sitting there saying all kinds of catty things about Faye while queens in the audience howl with delight while she dishes the dirt, sorry that's not classy, that's trashy.

Re 6:28: how many howling queens in the audience were/are drug addicts, and how many were high that night? [Dear Ms. Skrastina (Alda's real name), how do we know that the long-dead Irene Sharaff ever even said that?]

Not Miss Dunaway

This movie took itself so seriously that you could tell everyone involved was shooting for an Oscar.

Faye Dunaway is a great actress, she was brilliant in Mommie Dearest, but who is Rutanya Alda?

"Mommie Dearest" STAR??????? For chrissakes, she was a bit player!!!!!!!! Stand outside your local supermarket, and ask everyone going in and out, "Who is Rutanya Alda?" See what kind of answer you get.

Too much echoe!

Let's recap. Daughter writes a tale-all book to exploit the name of her Oscar winning mother after she dies. Book sells millions and daughter sells the rights to the movie, which stars another Oscar winning actress and thirty five years after, the actress who played the maid writes another tale-all book to exploit the name of the lead. You add Bette Davis and Shirley Maclaine's daughters to the mix and it speaks poorly for actresses, Hollywood and women. Disappointing is that Rutanya brilliantly held her own against Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken in the masterpiece The Deer Hunter, and a book on the making of that film would have been a far more fascinating read.

The wire hangers in Christina’s closet is so interesting as it’s something totally private that’s a middle finger to her mother. I’ve always believed Christina but this gives further legitimacy to her story.

Only thing I miss about my ex was how we could crack each other up at the most inopportune times with some random quote from "Mommie Dearest"

I don't know if it was that or if she just became gun shy afterward. This movie, though, did end several promising careers. For example, both of the girls who played Christina.

this film--and her acting choices--wreked Faye's career--she admitted as such.

Wow really awesome audio! You must be a HOLLYWOOD STAR!!!!!!!! I just want to give you kisses, accolades, rose bouquets, swag bags, and jewels!!!! You deserve it all!!!!!!

Hysterical.

And???? Trashy is fun, right?

I thought Faye Dunaway s performance of the great Joan Crawford was comical,at best.

She seems rude though. Like it’s very immature to drag a co star onstage behind her back.

She needs to be sued by Faye Dunaway for saying she heard someone called Faye a drug addict. That's something you don't repeat in public. SOUND LIKE GREEN JEALOUSY.

Two movies and she thinks she has the brass to compete with Faye Dunaway? And the phoney blond thing is ridiculous, too.

Always lived her but she absolutely looks NOTHING LIKE SHE DID. UNBELIEVABLE 😢😢😢😢😢Sad

Rutanya who? Faye and Diane Scarwid were absolutely fabulous. What was the point in all this trashing. Sounded like a meanie anti-Faye convention rather than a Momie Dearest fans gathering. I realise this is just a short segment of the event but it just brought down the level of the gathering. Just saying.

Pretty tacky of RA to dis Faye Dunaway in public like that (no matter what...).

A little birdie told me Faye saw this interview and is still plotting a wire hanger revenge.

Faye recently fired from the play 'Tea at 5' for some awful behavior and treatment of coworkers. Mommie Dearest wasn't much of a stretch for her to play

Sounds like a bit of resentment on the part of Ms. Alda that her career did not progress as she may have hoped. (Her one previous role of note was in the thriller "When A Stranger Calls"). If indeed Faye Dunaway thought that she would even be nominated for an Oscar as a result of this movie, she must have been suffering from a lapse in rationality. With that said, one can only surmise that Dunaway may have been difficult on the set, or that there was some bad karma going down between her and Alda as the movie was made. At any rate, you know that your career is pretty much over when one of three things happens: 1) You receive guest roles on Law and Order or any TV sitcoms, 2) You do voice overs for TV cartoons, and 3) You are asked to make appearances in cabarets and gay clubs. Sorry, Rutanya.

Rutanya Alda is a character actress. She looks different in each role and the roles are relatively small. However, she is working constantly.

Faye Dunaway suffered great backlash from Hollywood after this film.

I don't believe a word this woman says. They're only "entertaining stories" because they are in fact stories.

Sad she needs to speak badly of Faye!