Cunt Jumpoff Part I: Joan Crawford
I knew that Joan Crawford and Bette Davis had feuded post-Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, but I never really knew why until I read about it in a "Bizarre Oscar Moments" recap last night.
Apparently, Joan Crawford was "DAMNED MAD!" when Bette Davis (hereinafter referred to as "BD", sorry I work in Legal and we use phrases like this) got an Oscar Nom for Baby Jane and went on a rampage. She called up everyone she knew and begged them not to vote for BD for her third potential Oscar. THEN, she called up every other Best Actress Nominee and told them she would be more than happy to accept on their behalf should they win and not be present.
Well...lo and behold, BD loses to Anne Bancroft, who is acting on Broadway at the time and can't be there in person to accept her Oscar. And Joan gets up on stage, hams it up on Anne's behalf, and then parades around with the Oscar like she had won it! HEINOUS!!! A cunt jumpoff of the highest order, and a clear indication that Mommie Dearest is not that far off the mark. LOVES IT!
posted by Ouizer at 3/01/2006 12:06:00 AM
4 Comments:
Now THAT is an amazing story.
All hail Mommie Dearest.
ps... love the pic of young Patty Duke! "I want my DOLLS!"
12:57 AM, March 01, 2006
might as well start off with the original Queen B ever. look foward to more Heinous cunt Jump-offs!
10:16 AM, March 01, 2006
I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt! Iluvit!
7:37 PM, March 02, 2006
Davis's latest biographer nails it about this backstabbing and Joan's subsequent bailing out on their second proposed costarring in "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte," by hospitalizing herself, and issuing periodic 'updates' on her 'condition' to the press: "Davis was, by far, the better actress, both knew it, and by feigning illness in such an obvious and theatrical manner, Crawford proved it."
9:55 PM, September 27, 2012
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