Meet the woman behind 'Feud's' most fascinating character

You'd have to possess a pretty colorful character, not to mention some serious acting chops, to steal scenes away from Jessica Lange while she's channeling screen diva Joan Crawford. Fortunately, Jackie Hoffman has both. From the moment she makes her first appearance in Feud: Bette and Joan, you can't take your eyes off Hoffman's tightly-wound but infinitely patient Mamacita -- Crawford's sternly Teutonic live-in housekeeper, valet, mother confessor and all around Gal Friday, who is never far from the movie star's side and always faithfully and fiercely on her side, even when Crawford believes no one else is. Mamacita is, delightfully, a true-life construct: Anna Marie Brinke was Crawford's German-born maid/personal assistant, hired shortly before the actress began mounting her planned comeback in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Brinke came recommended by her own daughter, one of her nine children and a maid to a Westhampton neighbor of Crawford's: she impressed the star with her preference for scrubbing floors on her hands and knees over using a mop.