51 Wildly Out Of Line Previous Hollywood Celeb Insults

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In reality, Brando was apparently fairly sassy. In line with the e book Hollywood Babble On: Stars Gossip About Different Stars, Marlon Brando as soon as stated, “Bob Hope would attend the opening of a grocery store.”

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After James Dean’s first massive film position in East of Eden, Brando additionally famously stated, “Mr. Dean seems to be carrying my final 12 months’s wardrobe and utilizing my final 12 months’s expertise.”

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Brando wasn’t resistant to criticism of his personal, although. Trevor Howard as soon as known as Marlon Brando: “Unprofessional and completely ridiculous.” The 2 had labored collectively on the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty.

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This can be 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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Richard Burton apparently stated of Brando in his diaries: “Marlon has but to study to talk. Christ is aware of how typically I’ve watched Marlon damage his efficiency by under-articulation. He ought to have been born two generations earlier than and acted in silent movies.”

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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 known as Chaplin “most likely essentially the most sadistic man I would 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 known as costar Shelly Winters a “bowlegged b***h of a Brooklyn blonde,” whereas Winters known as him a “skinny, no-talent silly Hoboken b***ard” and even punched him.

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Robert Mitchum as soon as stated of costar Greer Garson, “I gave up being severe about making footage across the time I made a movie with Greer Garson, and she or he 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 stated. “He was all the time stirring issues up when he didn’t must.” The 2 had appeared in Sabrina collectively.

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Laurence Olivier was famously brutal on his costars. He known as Merle Oberon “a foolish little newbie,” Joan Fontaine “loathsome,” and stated of Marilyn Monroe, “My hatred for her was one of many strongest feelings I had ever felt.” Of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, he stated, “I did not care to be taught performing 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, significantly when it got here to Shakespeare. After seeing O’Toole in Halmet, he stated he “felt so ashamed for the poor chap.”

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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 carrying pants, and Katharine replied that she did have a single skirt and would put on it to Walters’ funeral.

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Hepburn was not resistant to criticism herself. Author Dorothy Parker stated of the four-time Greatest Actress Oscar-winner, “She runs the gamut of feelings from A to B.”

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Earlier on, Hepburn had stated of kid star Shirley Temple, “Appearing is essentially the most minor of presents. In spite of everything, Shirley Temple might do it on the age of 4.”

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Louise Brookes was worse — she known as Shirley Temple “A swaggering, robust little slut.”

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Ava Gardner appeared to name Clark Gable dumb, as soon as saying, “Clark is the form of man that if you happen to say, ‘Hiya Clark, how are you?’ he is caught for a solution.”

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Wayne additionally known 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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Bette Davis was equally chopping in lots of her public remarks on different stars. After starring with Errol Flynn in The Sisters and The Personal Lives of Elizabeth and Essex within the Thirties, she stated of Flynn, “He was simply lovely. He himself brazenly stated, ‘I do not know actually something about performing,’ and I like his honesty as a result of he is completely proper.”

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Davis as soon as stated of Jayne Mansfield, “Dramatic artwork in her opinion is realizing the best way to fill a sweater.”

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One other of Bette Davis‘ well-known insults of Joan Crawford? “Why am I so good at enjoying bitches? I believe it is as a result of I am not a bitch. Perhaps that is why Miss Crawford all the time performs girls.”

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Davis additionally stated, “Joan Crawford — I would not sit on her rest room!” and “I would not piss on Joan Crawford if she have been on hearth.” Oh, and she or he stated 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 stated that Davis “was all the time a fan of masking up her face in movement footage. She known as it ‘artwork.’ Others may name it camouflage — a cover-up for the absence of any actual magnificence.”

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Crawford additionally stated of Davis, “Bette will play something, as long as she thinks somebody is watching. I am somewhat extra selective than that.” On one other event, she insulted Davis’ performing. “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 an alternative of actual performing potential. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and people humorous clipped phrases and what have you ever received? She’s phony, however I suppose the general public likes that.”

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On one other event, Crawford stated, “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 massive 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 surprising show of unhealthy style I’ve ever seen. Look, there’s nothing incorrect 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 unfavorable to say about Marilyn. Otto Preminger stated of Marilyn Monroe, “Directing her was like directing Lassie.”

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And Tony Curtis stated that kissing Marilyn Monroe in Some Prefer it Scorching was “like kissing Hitler,” although he later elaborated, “Somebody stated to me, ‘Hey, what’s it like kissing Marilyn?’ I stated, ‘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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In the identical dialog, Welles additionally stated, “I by no means might stand Bette Davis, so I don’t wish to see her act, you see.”

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Welles stated of celeb chef Wolfgang Puck, “I don’t like Wolfgang. He’s somewhat shit. I believe he’s a horrible little man.”

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He additionally known as Norma Shearer “one of the minimally gifted girls ever to look on the ­silver display, and who appeared like ­nothing, with one eye crossed over the opposite.”

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And W.C. Fields known as West “a plumber’s thought of Cleopatra.”

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Lastly, this one is extra playful. Whereas presenting an award on the 51st Oscars in 1979, Shirley MacLaine publicly known 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 can accomplish if you happen to tried celibacy.”