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Marlon Brando as soon as mentioned of Oscar-nominated actor Montgomery Clift, “He acts like he is obtained a Mixmaster up his ass and would not need anybody to understand it.”
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In actual fact, Brando was apparently fairly sassy. In response to the e-book Hollywood Babble On: Stars Gossip About Different Stars, Marlon Brando as soon as mentioned, “Bob Hope would attend the opening of a grocery store.”
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After James Dean’s first huge film position in East of Eden, Brando additionally famously mentioned, “Mr. Dean seems to be sporting my final 12 months’s wardrobe and utilizing my final 12 months’s expertise.”
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Brando wasn’t proof against criticism of his personal, although. Trevor Howard as soon as referred to as Marlon Brando: “Unprofessional and completely ridiculous.” The 2 had labored collectively on the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty.
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It is a little later, however Christopher Reeve as soon as advised David Letterman that Marlon Brando was “phoning it in” and simply “did not care” later in his profession.
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In a gathering of legends, Marlon Brando labored with silent movie pioneer Charlie Chaplin on the film A Countess From Hong Kong. Afterward, he referred to as Chaplin “most likely essentially the most sadistic man I might ever met” and “an egotistical tyrant and a penny-pincher.” He additionally referred to him as “a fearsomely merciless man.”
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Costars buying and selling insults encapsulate a few of my favourite examples. On the set of Meet Danny Wilson, Frank Sinatra reportedly referred to as costar Shelly Winters a “bowlegged b***h of a Brooklyn blonde,” whereas Winters referred to as him a “skinny, no-talent silly Hoboken b***ard” and even punched him.
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Robert Mitchum as soon as mentioned of costar Greer Garson, “I gave up being critical about making photos across the time I made a movie with Greer Garson, and he or she took 100 and twenty-five takes to say no.”
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The biography Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Movies of Billy Wilder states that Humphrey Bogart mocked William Holden as “fairly” and a “lover boy,” and in flip, Holden had sturdy phrases for Bogart. “I hated the bastard,” he mentioned. “He was all the time stirring issues up when he didn’t should.” The 2 had appeared in Sabrina collectively.
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Laurence Olivier was famously brutal on his costars. He referred to as Merle Oberon “a foolish little novice,” Joan Fontaine “loathsome,” and mentioned of Marilyn Monroe, “My hatred for her was one of many strongest feelings I had ever felt.” Of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, he mentioned, “I did not care to be taught appearing by these two.”
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Olivier additionally criticized the performances of different actors, together with John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Peter O’Toole, notably when it got here to Shakespeare. After seeing O’Toole in Halmet, he mentioned he “felt so ashamed for the poor chap.”
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This one blows my thoughts a bit timing-wise as a result of Lauren Bacall is an Outdated Hollywood star, and Tom Cruise is decidedly not, however Bacall lived lengthy sufficient to get in some harsh phrases about Cruise. “Whenever you discuss a terrific actor, you are not speaking about Tom Cruise,” she mentioned. “His complete habits is so stunning. It is inappropriate and vulgar and completely unacceptable to make use of your personal life to promote something commercially, however I believe it is sort of a illness.” She was referring to Cruise’s couch-jumping and really public relationship with Katie Holmes.
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Katharine Hepburn additionally lived fairly some time — lengthy sufficient to be interviewed by Barbara Walters. In an interview, Walters appeared to goad Katharine Hepburn for all the time sporting pants, and Katharine replied that she did have a single skirt and would put on it to Walters’ funeral.
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Katharine Hepburn was famously outspoken as she obtained older. After Sharon Stone starred in Fundamental Intuition, Hepburn mentioned, “It is a new low for actresses when you need to surprise what’s between her ears as a substitute of her legs.”
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Hepburn was not proof against criticism herself. Author Dorothy Parker mentioned of the four-time Finest Actress Oscar-winner, “She runs the gamut of feelings from A to B.”
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Earlier on, Hepburn had mentioned of kid star Shirley Temple, “Appearing is essentially the most minor of items. In any case, Shirley Temple might do it on the age of 4.”
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Louise Brookes was worse — she referred to as Shirley Temple “A swaggering, powerful little slut.”
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And comic Totie Fields mentioned of Temple, “Shirley Temple had charisma as a toddler. Nevertheless it cleared up as an grownup.”
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This is not *fairly* Outdated Hollywood, but it surely’s so casually merciless I’ve to incorporate it. James Caan as soon as referred to as Bette Midler “very silly.” He continued, “She’s not a foul particular person, however silly by way of grey matter. I imply, I like her, however I like my canine, too.” The 2 co-starred in For the Boys.
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Ava Gardner appeared to name Clark Gable dumb, as soon as saying, “Clark is the type of man that when you say, ‘Hiya Clark, how are you?’ he is caught for a solution.”
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John Wayne additionally as soon as referred to as Gable an “fool,” saying, “You understand why he is an actor? It is the one factor he is good sufficient to do.”
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Wayne additionally referred to as Montgomery Clift “an conceited little bastard”…
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…And Gene Hackman “one of many worst actors in Hollywood.”
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Tallulah Bankhead famously didn’t get together with Bette Davis. She as soon as mentioned of Davis, “There’s nothing I would not say to her face…each of them.” She additionally mentioned of Davis, “And in any case the great issues I’ve mentioned about that hag, Bette Davis. Once I come up with her, I am going to tear out each hair of her mustache!”
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Bette Davis was equally slicing in a lot of her public remarks on different stars. After starring with Errol Flynn in The Sisters and The Non-public Lives of Elizabeth and Essex within the Thirties, she mentioned of Flynn, “He was simply stunning. He himself overtly mentioned, ‘I do not know actually something about appearing,’ and I love his honesty as a result of he is completely proper.”
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Davis as soon as mentioned of Jayne Mansfield, “Dramatic artwork in her opinion is realizing fill a sweater.”
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However Davis’ most well-known feud is with What Occurred to Child Jane? costar Joan Crawford. After Crawford died, Davis, who she had famously feuded with, reportedly mentioned, “You need to by no means say dangerous issues in regards to the useless, solely good. Joan Crawford is useless…good!”
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One other of Bette Davis‘ well-known insults of Joan Crawford? “Why am I so good at taking part in bitches? I believe it is as a result of I am not a bitch. Perhaps that is why Miss Crawford all the time performs women.”
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Davis additionally mentioned, “Joan Crawford — I would not sit on her rest room!” and “I would not piss on Joan Crawford if she had been on hearth.” Oh, and he or she mentioned that Crawford had “slept with each male star at MGM besides Lassie.”
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Joan Crawford had her justifiable share of barbs for Davis, too. She as soon as mentioned that Davis “was all the time keen on protecting up her face in movement photos. She referred to as it ‘artwork.’ Others may name it camouflage — a cover-up for the absence of any actual magnificence.”
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Crawford additionally mentioned of Davis, “Bette will play something, as long as she thinks somebody is watching. I am a bit extra selective than that.” On one other event, she insulted Davis’ appearing. “I do not hate Bette Davis regardless that the press desires me to. I resent her — I do not see how she constructed a profession out of a set of mannerisms as a substitute of actual appearing potential. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and people humorous clipped phrases and what have you ever obtained? She’s phony, however I suppose the general public likes that.”
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On one other event, Crawford mentioned, “I am the quiet one, and Bette’s explosive. I’ve self-discipline, she would not,” and “She has a cult, and what the hell is a cult besides a gang of rebels and not using a trigger. I’ve followers. There is a huge distinction.”
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Crawford’s digs weren’t simply reserved for Davis. On the Photoplay Awards dinner, Joan Crawford advised reporter Bob Thomas that Marilyn Monroe’s cleavage “was essentially the most stunning show of dangerous style I’ve ever seen. Look, there’s nothing mistaken with my tits, however I do not go round throwing them in folks’s faces.”
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She wasn’t the one one to have one thing damaging to say about Marilyn. Otto Preminger mentioned of Marilyn Monroe, “Directing her was like directing Lassie.”
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And Tony Curtis mentioned that kissing Marilyn Monroe in Some Prefer it Scorching was “like kissing Hitler,” although he later elaborated, “Somebody mentioned to me, ‘Hey, what’s it like kissing Marilyn?’ I mentioned, ‘It is like kissing Hitler. What are you doing asking me such a silly query?’ That is the place it got here from.”
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Orson Welles as soon as mentioned he hated Woody Allen “bodily,” saying, “I can hardly bear to speak to him. He has the Chaplin illness. That individual mixture of vanity and timidity units my enamel on edge.” When director Henry Jaglom, with whom Welles was talking, urged Allen was shy, Welles replied, “He’s conceited. Like all folks with timid personalities, his vanity is limitless. Anyone who speaks quietly and shrivels up in firm is unbelievably conceited. He acts shy, however he isn’t. He is scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a really tense state of affairs. It is folks like me who’ve to hold on and fake to be modest. To me, it is essentially the most embarrassing factor on the earth — a person who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, as a way to free himself from his hang-ups. Every little thing he does on the display is therapeutic.”
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In the identical dialog, Welles additionally mentioned, “I by no means might stand taking a look at Bette Davis, so I don’t wish to see her act, you see.”
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Welles mentioned of celeb chef Wolfgang Puck, “I don’t like Wolfgang. He’s a bit shit. I believe he’s a horrible little man.”
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He additionally referred to as Norma Shearer “one of the crucial minimally proficient women ever to look on the silver display, and who regarded like nothing, with one eye crossed over the opposite.”
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Keep in mind Tallulah Bankhead from earlier on this put up? Properly, after Somerset Maugham declined to solid her in his play, Bankhead reportedly mentioned, “Mr Maugham, I’ve two phrases left to say to you, and the second is ‘off.'”
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Natalie Wooden apparently advised her sister Lana that Elvis “can sing, however he cannot do a lot else.” The 2 had briefly dated within the ’50s.
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Frank Sinatra as soon as referred to journalist Dorothy Kilgallen as “the chinless surprise” — and in contrast her to a chipmunk. He additionally as soon as despatched her a gravestone.
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Screenwriter SJ Perelman mentioned of Groucho Marx, “The person was a serious comic, which is to say that he had the compassion of an icicle, the effrontery of a carnival shill, and the generosity of a pawn dealer.”
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John Gielgud mentioned of Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman, “Pricey Ingrid — speaks 5 languages and might’t act in any of them.”
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Fanny Brice mentioned of Esther Williams, who famously went from being a swimming star to a movie star usually shot within the water: “Moist, she’s a star. Dry, she ain’t!”
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Dyan Cannon mentioned of director Otto Preminger, “I do not suppose he might direct his nephew to the lavatory.” Preminger had directed her in Such Good Mates.
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Elliott Gould as soon as referred to as comic Jerry Lewis a “bitter, ceremonial, piously chauvinistic egomaniac.”
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Author Graham Greene as soon as referred to as early intercourse image Mae West “an overfed python.”
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Lastly, this one is extra playful. Whereas presenting an award on the 51st Oscars in 1979, Shirley MacLaine publicly referred to as out her brother, Warren Beatty, who famously had a ton of relationships as a younger star: “Warren, Warren, Warren, simply think about what you might accomplish when you tried celibacy.”
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