Early Life and Education
She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1939 to unmarried teen parents.
According to Christina Crawford's interview with Larry King her father was married to another woman, and her mother unmarried. Her father was supposedly in the Navy at the time. Christina Crawford was adopted out-of-state in 1940. Subsequent documentation showed that the adoption was handled by Georgia Tann through Tann's infamous Tennessee Children's Home Society. Christina was one of four children adopted by Joan Crawford.
Christina Crawford has stated that her childhood was affected by her adopted mother's violent mood swings, and alcoholism. At the age of ten she was sent to Chadwick School, in Palos Verdes, California where many other celebrity children were in attendance. However, she was removed from Chadwick by her mother because of alleged "misbehavior" with several of the male students. Joan Crawford then placed her in a Catholic boarding school, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in La Cañada (now the City of La Cañada Flintridge), California and curtailed Christina's outside contact until her graduation. Christina spent every holiday at home. After graduating from Flintridge, Crawford moved from California to Pittsburgh to attend Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and then to New York City where she studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan. After 7 years, she gained a B.A. from UCLA.
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