Screen starlets Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were two women that hated each other with a vicious passion.
If you don't know about this feud, let us be the first to fill you in.
To start things out, let us begin by saying that these women hated each other for well over 30 years, and did so until the day they died!
What was this over you ask?
For those of you who do not know, Joan Crawford was a kinky bi-sexual. Yes, not only did she like her men, but she liked her women as well. It turns out that Joan made a hard pass for Bette Davis, and was denied!
Bette Davis liked men, and men only. But, Joan Crawford was in love with Bette, and got her revenge in many other ways.
To start, Joan decided to steal a man that Bette Davis was crazy about, and this man eventually became Joan Crawford's second husband. To say that Bette was mad with fury, would be quite the understatement!
Bette Davis had always considered herself to be an actress, and she considered Joan Crawford as a slutty type, who slept with men and women alike to get to the top of the business. Joan was very good looking, and very sexual, and bedded many famous men and women in the movie business.
Some of the women Joan claimed she had sexual encounters with, included Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and even the great Marilyn Monroe!
Wow!
Joan's sexual magnetism snatched the man that Bette was crazy about, and his name was Franchot Tone. Franchot was equally crazy about Joan Crawford, and not even closely attracted to Bette, as he was Joan.
Joan once cattily remarked:
"Franchot isn't interested in Bette," she said, "but I wouldn't mind giving her a poke if I was in the right mood. Wouldn't that be funny?"
Wow!
We will give our source article for these details, where you can read a bit further, but we will go on with the story here, even though more was said and done.
The hatred went even further, as eventually, not only did Joan Crawford steal the man Bette had loved, but she took her Hollywood crown, as she became one of Hollywood's highest paid and most noted actresses, as Bette started to quickly slide downhill.
The tension went on for years, until it hit the climax, and boiling point, when both actresses were over 50 years of age, in the film "What happened to Baby Jane".
Ironically, this was the first, and only movie, that starred both women.
But, what happened, will never be forgotten by those present.
You can read the details about this movie on your own, but Bette Davis was to play an attacker in this movie, and "simulate" the violence. Instead, when she raised her foot for a kick, she gashed Joan's scalp, and Joan had to have 3 stiches, and it caused a lump the size of an egg on her forehead.
Bette insisted, that it was an accident.
Joan, later got some revenge, as there was a scene where Bette was to drag her crippled sister from her bed. Joan, in real life, concealed a weight lifter's belt, with lead, and Bette could not pull her, and hurt her back in the process.
Both women made a lot of money off of this film, and Bette Davis won an award for best actress, even though she claimed that Crawford had campaigned hard against it.
And even still, this feud did not stop, and even more details surrounded all of this!
This has to be one of the biggest real life Hollywood feuds I have ever read about, and was extremely surprised to read about all of this.
Anyone interested in reading more, can read a more detailed version of the events and happenings, at my source article HERE.
Of course, as you all well know by now, the question I would have liked to know, is, who would have won if these two women got in a catfight?
That would have been one hell of a battle!
I don't know of any current Hollywood stars, to my knowledge, at the time of this article, with this much hate against one another, that lasted all the way to the grave!
In any case, may they both rest in peace.
The Catfight Report salutes two of the biggest bitches Hollywood has ever seen!
(Check Youtube for videos on both of these women, and some interviews as well)
JOAN CRAWFORD
BETTE DAVIS
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