Barbara Merrill(I)

Wrote a book about her mother, Bette Davis, called "My Mother's Keeper". It is often compared to the 'tell-all' book written by Christina Crawford titled "Mommie Dearest" which was about the abuse she experienced as a child at the hands of her mother Joan Crawford. Merrill's book, however, was about her relationship with her mother after childhood. The book created a rift with her adopted brother Michael Merrill who had earlier begged her not to write the book, and Bette Davis who had lived long enough to write "This N That" in response to her daughter's attack. They never reconciled, and Davis cut her out of the will.

[on her Mother, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford] Mother would have loved a confrontation with Joan. But Crawford was too smart for her games.