A wire clothes hangerwas also a featured prop in a central scene clothes hanger
in the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest, in which Joan Crawford, played by Faye Dunaway clotheshanger
, enters the room of her daughter, Christina, at night while the girl sleeps, to admire the beautiful clotheshanging nicely in her closet. She then becomes enraged upon discovering that Christina has once again used a cheap wire hanger, instead of the expensive padded hangers Joan provided and instructed the girl to use. Joan wakes her daughter and gives her a thrashing clothes hanger
. Joan's fierce cry of "No wire hangers ever!" quickly worked its way into pop culture.
Unfolded wire clothes hangers, because of their use in performing illegal (mainly self induced) abortions (by inserting one in the uterus), are often used in pro-choice rallies clothes hanger
. Whoopi Goldberg used one as a symbol in a pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C. in 2004.
