'Miss Crawford and I weren't enemies,' she insisted. Directors: Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr | Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson. Desperate single mother raffles off her £180,000 two-bedroom flat for £2.50 a ticket after becoming... Trinny Woodall's eye serum-concealer sells every 38 SECONDS and is hailed a 'game changer' for tired eyes. ", stars, now in their 50s, were seen as box, to her rival's rescue, by finding the novel, former child star, who allegedly cripples, project, telling producer-director Robert, Aldrich: "If you get rid of those two old, But Aldrich went ahead on a modest budget, "Whose dialogue are you cutting, Bette?" other for 30 years and would do so to their graves. Within a few days of commencing work on Dangerous, it became obvious to everyone on the set that Davis was deeply attracted to Tone. The two began dating but Payton ended the relationship after meeting and becoming engaged to actor Franchot Tone. ", Turning her head, the immaculately groomed and spectacularly gowned, Crawford looked Davis up and down and then observed acidly: "Dear Bette! Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. Unfortunately, the union members disagree For in 1985, after Davis suffered a stroke, her own daughter, Barbara Davis Hyman, published My Mother's Keeper, depicting Bette as 'a mean-spirited, neurotic, profane and pugnacious boozer who took out her anger at the world by abusing those close to her'. Equally renowned for his work in film (posters, titles, and sequences) as he is for the iconic corporate logos he created for AT&T, Quaker Oats, Minolta, Warner Communications, and United Airlines, Saul Bass (1920–1996) left a design legacy as varied as it is significant. But in private it was a very different matter. It is produced and directed by Ryan Murphy, who was responsible for another blockbuster TV series, The People v. O.J. Now, 40 years after the death of Crawford, and 27 years after that of Davis, this extraordinary saga of love and possession is finally coming to the television screen in a multi-million-dollar eight-part series, Feud: Bette And Joan. We didn't know each other at all.'. At the Oscars ceremony, when Anne Bancroft was announced as Best Actress, Crawford swept past Davis to receive the Oscar on behalf of the absent Bancroft. ", studio observer, Davis vowed: "I wouldn't, p**s on Joan Crawford if she was on fire. 1 talking about this. Bette Davis was a New England-born, classically-trained stage actress. William Powell, Franchot Tone 6. Take a pitch-perfect pinch of reggae, a sun-fried splash of SoCal pop-rock and a heaping of Meters-style funk and soul and you've got Tone's brew. "Joan Crawford?" 'The poor bastard was dying, but still that bitch wouldn't let him go!' "How dare she pull this c**p, her crippled sister from her bed, Crawford, Davis struggled to lift her, yelling: "My, When the film was released, both stars, who shared in the profits, made a, "It was triumphant. Theirs was the longest, most ferocious, and most unrelenting feud in Hollywood history. And she counted such female stars as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, and, later, Marilyn Monroe among her lesbian lovers. "They met each day for lunch... he would return to the set, his face, He was honoured that this great star was in, love with him. Elisha Cook, Jr. (出演), Franchot Tone (出演), Robert Siodmak (監督) & 形式: Blu-ray But she made contact with Crawford's head, gashing her scalp, which required three stitches, and raising a lump the size of an egg. Franchot Tone and Bette Davis in a publicity shot for the film 'Dangerous'. every star at MGM", she alleged later, "of, And she counted several female stars, including. The enmity had festered for decades, despite repeated public denials by both women that it existed. ', As Davis later recounted with glee in a series of chat shows, studio after studio rejected the project, telling producer-director Robert Aldrich: 'If you get rid of those two old broads and sign some real box office names, we'll give you the money.'. When Baby Jane was released, complete with the baroque scene in which Davis serves up a dead rat on a silver salver for Crawford's supper, it packed cinemas and became a blockbuster hit. I'll kill her!'. A man with whom Davis fell desperately in love, but who, in her eyes, was stolen from her by Crawford, who married him, divorced him four years later, and then, 30 years later still, when he was dying from lung cancer, took back into her home and nursed him until his death. Britain's own Oscar-winning Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Hollywood's Olivia de Havilland — the sole survivor of the saga today, who is still alive in Paris at the age of 100. In a scene dramatised in the new TV series, Davis, who was supposed only to simulate violence, raises and swings her right foot to kick her crippled sister on the floor. But Crawford's seduction of Tone had not diminished her wish to add Davis to her list of conquests. He quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. "Franchot isn't interested in Bette," she, poke if I was in the right mood. Franchot Tone is best-known for his work as one half of the Culver City Dub Collective. Even in the earliest days of their acquaintance, Davis viewed Crawford with contempt, believing she was a woman who used sex to advance her career. A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite. According to friends and neighbours, Tone did not emerge from the solarium until nightfall. But Davis was not to be silenced. When Crawford, widow of Pepsi-Cola boss Alfred Steele, provided the set with an enormous Pepsi cooler, Davis discovered that Joan's own bottle of Pepsi, constantly at her elbow, was always half-full of vodka. Crawford took her ex-husband into her nine-room New York apartment, and nursed him until his death, even supervising the scattering of his ashes. Take a pitch-perfect pinch of reggae, a sun-fried splash of SoCal pop-rock and a heaping of Meters-style funk and soul and you've got Tone's brew. Davis won a second Academy Award for Jezebel in 1938, making her the No.1 box office star at Warner Bros. "She did it coldly, deliberately and with, complete ruthlessness. But Davis's sexual overtures did not succeed. Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford in Feud. No comments have so far been submitted. His sniveling, deliberately taunting demeanor and snarling, flat nasal tones set the actor apart from other similar slimeballs of the 1940s and 1950s. Everything about him reflected his elegance, from his name to his manners.'. In November 2018, Tone, who goes by his middle name, Franchot, and is the grandson of Hollywood actor Franchot Tone, went to Rosen to treat his … Davis was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Playing opposite her was the tall, dark and attractive 30-year-old actor Franchot Tone, born into a well-to-do upstate New York family and a graduate of the Ivy League Cornell University. rehabilitate the fallen star, was the tall, dark and attractive 30-year-old actor Franchot Tone, born into a well-off New York family and a graduate of Cornell University. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. But the mid-Forties were to bring a downswing in her popularity, threatening her position as queen of the studio. stitches, and causing a lump the size of an egg. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, both Oscar-winning stars, hated each other with an all-consuming passion for 42 years, although both denied it publicly and in interviews. or debate this issue live on our message boards. It clearly said: 'You, took her ex-husband into her nine-room New York flat and nursed him, "She had to monopolise him even in death. I was jealous, of course.". Doubting she would win, Bette wore a simple navy blue dress to the ceremony. Fairbanks Jr., had got to Tone before her. But as Davis revealed to me during her last visit to London, two years before her death in 1989, the real and festering cause of their mutual hatred was a man. 'Yours,' snapped Davis. Published: 22:19 BST, 3 March 2017 | Updated: 01:17 BST, 4 March 2017. Two years later, when Aldrich attempted to re-team Davis and Crawford in another film, Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, their escalating hatred defeated him. Both women were to marry four times, but Crawford's divorce from Tone in 1939 did not end the bitterness. reporter about the enemies she had made in the, motion picture business, Davis replied: "Enemies? There was only one problem. I've never behaved like ... well, I doubt that my children will write a book.'. 1 talking about this. I have never forgiven her for that, and I never will.'. But his wife remained seated, her back to Davis, until her husband said: "Darling! A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Despite her engagement, Payton began seeing Neal again. part that the antagonism was most fierce. film together. [6] On September 14, 1951, Neal, Payton and Tone made headlines after Neal got into a physical altercation with Tone … But in spite of the professionalism of both Davis and Crawford, the making of the film was a traumatic business, complicated by what had happened in their lives almost 30 years earlier. At some point, the complaint alleges, Rosen began a relationship with Tone’s wife. ", are now dead," she observed, "and Miss Davis would, like to present herself as just another little old lady, There is no question that Davis — the centenary of. Hearing that Crawford had told gossip columnist Louella Parsons that she and Davis 'may even do a picture together', Bette commented implacably: 'When hell freezes over.'. Yet, This amazing saga of love and possession began in, 1935 when Bette Davis was 27, and was cast by her, studio, Warner Bros, in the role that was to win her, In the melodrama Dangerous, Davis played Joyce. In a tone of "sugared innocence", Davis insisted: "Miss Crawford and I weren't enemies. Both stars, who were on a percentage of the profits, made a fortune. Jack Warner, the former studio boss of Davis and Crawford, flatly refused to finance the film, commenting: 'I wouldn't give you one dime for those two washed-up old bitches. But here the ghost of Joan Crawford had the last laugh. Having watched helplessly as Crawford stole the love of her life, she was now forced to look on as her rival made a determined assault on her Hollywood crown. Crawford was not. The official cause of death was 'acute coronary occlusion', but the real cause was pancreatic cancer. For years it was assumed their bitter decades-long war arose from their utterly contrasting backgrounds and characters. Like Crawford before her, Davis also disinherited her daughter. Susan Sarandon, 70, takes son she... Catherine Zeta-Jones, 47, goes hell for leather in tight LBD... 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Harry Joe Brown, the crew supervisor on Dangerous, was astonished to see Davis on her knees pleasuring Tone in one of their dressing rooms. 'They met each day for lunch. 3 talking about this. 'Of both sexes.'. Next day's newspapers showed Crawford holding the Oscar which her lifelong rival had failed to win. On-set observers noticed Davis running her pen through whole pages of the script. When Crawford first entertained Tone at her Hollywood home, he found her in the solarium, tanned from head to foot, and stark naked. 'Just because a person's dead,' she shouted, 'doesn't mean they changed!'. whose birth fell last month on April 5 — lied. or debate this issue live on our message boards. 'One area of life Joan should never have gone into was children. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, Davis had been married for three years at that time to her high school sweetheart, the musician Harmon Oscar ("Ham”) Nelson. After lunch, he would return to the set, his face covered in lipstick. Starring two Oscar-winning actresses — Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford — the series premieres in the U.S. tomorrow with a UK date to be announced. To Davis's fury, they were married in New Jersey soon after the film was completed. Davis had memorably vowed in All About Eve — she might have been referring to the making of Baby Jane. was rebuffed. Joan Crawford, left, and Bette Davis, right, both Oscar-winning stars, hated each other with an all-consuming passion for 42 years. Davis had been married for three years to her high school sweetheart, the musician Harmon Oscar 'Ham' Nelson, but the marriage lacked passion and was regarded as a failure. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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