Those were the days!

I met her in 2003 and she was truly evil. Lived up to her portrayal of Joan Crawford to a tee and more. She's an asshole

if shed had been easier to work with the talent would not have been there and so is the way of the world

Bette! She'd whip you for spelling her name wrong. You are correct though about her dislike for Dunaway's lack of professionalism. As much as she didn't get along with Joan Crawford she at least said " she was on time. she knew her lines. she was a professional."

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She said the same about Miriam Hopkins. Go to the "Good Morning America" show from the 1980s with David Hartman interview. It is broken up in four parts. I think she says it in the last one. Of course, she hadn't met Faye by then. Her spite torward Miriam was from old. I think they knew each other way before either went into film. Miriam hit it big first and then things went downhill. As Bette's star was ascending, Miriam's was descending......and Bette slept with Miriam's husband for good measure.

@@makeittrue oh thats funny! If this happened in todays world with all the cameras there would be some juicy hollywood gossip revealed!

@@dedebee2815 On Amazon, there is finally a biography on Miriam. It has been pricey for the hard copy at $40. My mother was born in 1927. She always liked Miriam Hopkins. Mother said she had a different look. She was a good actress in my opinion. Margaret Mitchell felt she should play Scarlett in "GWTW" as she came from that part of Georgia. William Wyler liked her. She ended up playing supporting parts as the meddlesome aunt in "The Heiress" and the bitchy wife of Laurence Olivier in "Carrie". I think she had a broad range as she played comedy and drama both extremely well.

Also Shelly Winters I. S.O.B. riffing on Mengers

I Remember that Movie or barely remember that Movie. I saw it when I was veyr young at the Theters last Century. If I remember, it turned out that Richard Benjamin was the Killer- the Bad Guy.

Amazing movie. Really captured that era.

I think she was amazing in The Rose. She wasn't playing herself in that one. But then (I guess) Hollywood noticed her huge personality, so they gave her such roles. Which is a shame, cause she's amazing not only in these bigger-then-life roles, but in smaller, dramatic parts as well.

They gripe that way about Hepburn, Davis, and other stars with big personalities. Who cares?

I agree. I love Bette as a singer and in a few of her films but here she's just doing Bette Midler. Boring.

@Lydia Lilli I thought so, too, until I actually saw this "60 Minutes" interview with Ms. Mengers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6-didl-1Ny4hqs.html Miss Midler captures her perfectly.

MrMalibupj Totally agree...

It doesn’t work like that

In that case, if you were an actor you'd be a strikingly unsuccessful one

Cream Cheese right!?

I think there was a lull in Faye’s movie career before Chinatown. She hadn’t been in anything big or that made money for about three years prior to Chinatown. Chinatown certainly reignited her career. Afterwards she made several big movies including Network.

Bette can only play Bette. I really find her very one-note and affected. She is also homophobic.

I thought so too!

I thought an older version of Anastascia?

No idea, but I love the wig: & that caftan... 😁

It’s showBUSINESS. The movie industry has never been solely about art

Sandra Shevey it was the 70s... Dunaway already by then had a reputation for being difficult. Women were treated like trash in the industry in the 70s also hence a huge salary difference between Nicholson and Dunaway.

$75,000 in today's money would be over $500,000.

@@tmmaston But men were and are receiving 10x more.

@@bradley583 I worked out of Hollywood in the Seventies as a megastar interviewer Chicago Trtb Syndicate (60 Sunday magazines) I introduced into the `celebrity interview` issues of gender, race, antisemitism and orientation. See sandrasheveyinterviews KZfaq. Untrue that in the 70s women were treated like `trash`. Better treatment, conditions, money in the 70s as independent fil,m was emerging while the old studio system was dying. Dunaway DID have a reputation but is flawless in every role. I know I was in Cortina when she was makaing the film with Marcello. Asked for an interview and got rejected. There is a story about Faye, maybe apocryphal, maybe true. But it`s about days being mobiles. At the hairdresser she is reputed to have jumped up every time the phone rang as and when she was waiting for some communication about a job for which she was being considered. Really the finest actress of the Seventies. Turned acting around without losing the basic theatrical grit.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndWGlNGgy7WxZoE.html its starts around 7:30

I had a headache after two minutes; I can't imagine sitting through this for two hours.

You obviously have no sense of humor and am unfamiliar with Sue Mengers.

well she has mentioned in interviews that she really relates to Joan Crawford and she obviously doesnt even believe what Christina wrote in her book, the way she always talks about her as 'that girl' shows that she is on Joan's side lmao

I like both actresses very much, but a distinction between Joan and Faye is that Joan was LOVED by the film crew, grips, makeup, etc. She went out of her way to treat them with the utmost respect and kindness. Directors and co-stars might have been a different story - although she was generally quite good to them as well. Faye was a fantastic actress but known to be a pill on set. They were completely opposite in this regard.

Fay's motion picture marketability also ran out because she was around 40 at the time she made Mommie Dearest. Age 40 is the death knell for any actress in motion pictures. After 40 an actress is reduced to character roles or supporting roles in motion pictures. Or she might still get a starring role in made for TV productions.

After the first album it was downhill for me. I bought every album and watched every movie (except Drowning Mona). There's always a juicy crumb in everything she did. I am the only person who loves Jinxed. Hated The Rose movie except the song.

Hillary Clinton's a wonderful first lady she was a wonderful politician one of the best we've had. Remember the anti-American racist bigoted pedophile loving Republicans investigated the clintons for decades and never found anything. But since you said what you said I'm going to bet you're a racist bigoted anti-American pedophile loving trumpet

I'll take Faye over Jane any day of the week

If you've seen the movie you would know Dunaway was the right choice