Notorious Old Hollywood Feuds
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4hiMCyAEMxibzIYrOKD5Q/join Notorious Old Hollywood Feuds The Real Joan Crawford & Bette Davis It was 1962, and Hollywood was about to see the biggest catfight in history. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford had long been rivals as they clawed their way to fame. Then the time came when the two ageing actresses needed each other to keep their fading careers alive. But on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, things got out of control. Davis was thrilled to eschew her natural beauty and don grotesque clown makeup to play Baby Jane. However, Crawford wanted to remain attractive, despite her character Blanche being sickly and confined to a wheelchair. Davis said, "It was a constant battle to get her not to look gorgeous. [Joan Crawford] wanted her hair well-dressed, her gowns beautiful and her fingernails with red nail polish. For the part of an invalid who had been cooped up in a room for 20 years, she wanted to look attractive. She was wrong." But Crawford countered with this statement, "Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it 'art.' Others might call it camouflage — a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty." Sophia Loren & Jayne Mansfield This one photo clearly illustrates the contempt Sophia Loren had for Jayne Mansfield. A Beverly Hills party was thrown in Loren's honour to introduce the Italian actress to Hollywood. But a braless Mansfield was determined to steal the show. Years later, Loren said this about the photo: "Jane Mansfield came right for my table. She knew everyone was watching. She sat down. And now, she was barely… Listen. Look at the picture. Where are my eyes? I'm staring at her nipples because I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate. In my face, you can see the fear. I'm so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow — BOOM! — and spill all over the table." Though numerous fans have asked Loren to autograph the photo over the years, she has always refused. Vivian Vance & William Frawley Famous for being the best friends of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, Ethyl (Vivian Vance) and Fred Mertz (William Frawley) hated each other from day one of I Love Lucy. Vance was 22 years Frawley's junior and thought they would be a terrible match as a TV couple. Frawley was a heavy drinker, and though he was warned not to drink while they were working, he often had to keep his hands in his pockets so the camera wouldn't catch them shaking from alcohol withdrawal. The two hated each other so intensely that when they had a shot at a spinoff show after I Love Lucy ended, Vance said no way. Orson Welles & William Randolph Hearst Citizen Kane is loosely based on the life and scandals of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was outraged by the film starring and directed by Orson Welles, and he forbid any of his newspapers from even mentioning it. Hearst even tried to purchase the original print and have it burned. But the one thing that may have enraged Hearst the most is the mention of the word "rosebud" in the film. Several sources claim that "rosebud" was the name Hearst gave to the genitalia of his lover, Marion Davies. Marlon Brando & James Dean Elizabeth Taylor & Debbie Reynolds Bette Davis & Tallulah Bankhead Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland