who had known mommie and her little girl took sides. Myrna Loy had toured in Neil Simon’s play Barefoot in the Park, which reached Chicago in 1965. “We didn’t have any problems until Christina Crawford [joined the cast],” Myrna wrote in her autobiography. At first, she was delighted to welcome her old friend’s daughter. But then things went bad. “I’ve never known anyone like her—ever,” she added. “Her stubbornness was really unbelievable. She would not do a single thing anyone asked her to do … and she completely disregarded her blocking [i.e., her assigned positions onstage]. She was going to
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