I don't think she gets enough credit or is in the spotlight enough for her A level cuntery.
On her first day, on the set of “All About Eve”, she said “Good morning, Miss Davis. Bette responded: “Oh shit! Good manners!” It seems Bette read her beads and thought she was phony. Celeste refused to talk to Bette off the set, during the entire film.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 31, 2020 3:46 AM |
The Backstory video of All About Eve is a great, short doc with a lot of fun commentary from Celeste Holm.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 31, 2020 3:52 AM |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^***
You know, not for nothing, but if that story is true, then fuck Betty Davis right up her ass. How snarky and rude. Davis is clearly the cunt for creating this unnecessary scene....
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 31, 2020 4:08 AM |
R3, what's it like not being able to attend your Altar Guild functions because of the pandemic? Does your work at the library fill your time enough?
We're a little worried.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 31, 2020 4:25 AM |
Grade A Cunts have a way of hiding their cuntry so that clear sighted truth tellers get blamed for calling a spade a spade.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 31, 2020 5:12 AM |
Is it “cuntry” or “cuntery”?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 31, 2020 5:28 AM |
I'm on Team Bette is this bitch fight.
Celeste thought her shit didn't stink because she was raised as the only child in a wealthy New York home. Hard-scrabble Bette tested her with the wisecrack, and instead of laughing it off Celeste took offense. And it lasted her entire lifetime.
At 87, Celeste married a 41-year-old opera singer. They sued her son to break a trust fund so they could have access to the cash. She lived to be 95.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 31, 2020 5:42 AM |
It just sounds like Bette didn't get along with anyone, except Livvie and Livvie was faker than fake.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 31, 2020 5:44 AM |
R3 this unnecessary scene....
Davis made 120 movies full of unnecessary scenes
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 31, 2020 5:57 AM |
R6 Yes!
R7 You are so right. Some of those East Coast debutantes who made their way to Hollywood had a rude awakening.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 31, 2020 6:06 AM |
R6 Cuntery has a better flow to it.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 31, 2020 6:07 AM |
Read “All About ‘All About Eve’ “ by Sam Staggs. Therein you will find good tea about Celeste and all the other players.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 31, 2020 6:23 AM |
I saw a few comments on social media by some eldergheys that worked for Celeste and the cuntery is CONFIRMED.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 31, 2020 3:49 PM |
She was an amateur.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 31, 2020 3:52 PM |
I agree, Bar. She doesn't even register on the Richter scale of cuntery.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 31, 2020 3:56 PM |
She was friendly with Jane Wyman, who gave her a role on Falcon Crest.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 31, 2020 3:58 PM |
R6, I think it's generally spelled 'cuntery' except when Aretha sang about her own Grand Canyon and the album song listing had it as "My Cunt-ry 'Tis Of Thee".
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 31, 2020 4:17 PM |
And people thought *I* was a cunt ! Trust me, that bitch Celeste definitely earned her rep. She made me look like fuckin Mother Teresa.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 31, 2020 4:25 PM |
Maybe Celeste should have just said "Good morning, Bette".
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 31, 2020 4:25 PM |
Bette feuded with everyone, regardless. Maureen Stapleton was disgusted by the way Bette treated Angela Lansbury when they all did a movie together. She was also awful to Lillian Gish on Whales of August.
And to think Bette wanted to star opposite Lucy in Mame. The woman who managed to reduce Crawford to a sobbing mess in her dressing room? They would have been wiping the blood off the walls of those sets every day.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 31, 2020 4:31 PM |
So....Celeste was a çunt?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 31, 2020 4:36 PM |
thanks for starting this thread. long overdue.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 31, 2020 4:38 PM |
[quote]And to think Bette wanted to star opposite Lucy in Mame. The woman who managed to reduce Crawford to a sobbing mess in her dressing room? They would have been wiping the blood off the walls of those sets every day.
Lucy would have sliced and diced Bette, blamed Gary for it, and kept on going.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 31, 2020 4:50 PM |
I met her a couple of times, had lunches with her. She was lovely to me.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 31, 2020 5:12 PM |
Qui etait cette cunt?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 31, 2020 5:31 PM |
"Maureen Stapleton was disgusted by the way Bette treated Angela Lansbury when they all did a movie together."
What movie was that?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 31, 2020 5:34 PM |
R21 are you thinking Death on the Nile? Maureen Stapleton wasn’t in that. Bette Davis was quoted as saying how much she enjoyed working with Angela Lansbury, perhaps the feeling wasn’t mutual?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 31, 2020 5:40 PM |
[quote]She was also awful to Lillian Gish on Whales of August.
Pardon me. Someone around since the time of Georges Méliès should know how to act. My God, the ice floe from Way Down East emoted more.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 31, 2020 5:45 PM |
Here's a fun article in Page 6 you might enjoy. Holm's & DiCaprio's paths cross in the Russian Tea Room, circa 1994. Neither have heard of the other. Both being cunts.
[quote] She asks: “What’s he do?” Leo is sitting right. Staring. I whisper: “He’s nominated for an Oscar.” “As what?” “Supporting Supporting Actor. For ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.’ ” “Lord, I wouldn’t see that. Sounds like a pie-eating contest.”
[quote] Leo, still staring, wonders who’s this old bird. He asks who she is. Told, “Celeste Holm. Famous actress.” Silence. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Then I quietly offer: ‘All About Eve’ with Bette Davis, ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ with Gregory Peck.” ... Celeste snaps: “Learn your industry’s history.” Leo: “I won’t lie to you. I never saw you, either.”
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 31, 2020 6:19 PM |
It's true. Never "meet" your favorite stars. I wish I hadn't read this thread.
I adore Holm as the Fairy Godmother in "Cinderella".
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 31, 2020 7:28 PM |
Well, regardless. She has her place in show biz history.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 31, 2020 7:37 PM |
Stapleton, Davis, and Lansbury were all in the mini-series "Little Gloria ... Happy at Last".
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 31, 2020 7:43 PM |
According to director Lindsay Anderson, one day while filming The Whales of August he said to Lillian Gish, "Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close-up." Bette Davis remarked: "She should. She invented 'em."
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 31, 2020 7:48 PM |
Not much evidence of cuntery on this thread. What is Celeste supposed to have done?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 31, 2020 7:52 PM |
So sad when you’re a complete cunt but no one remembers who the hell you are
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 31, 2020 7:56 PM |
[quote] It just sounds like Bette didn't get along with anyone,
I’m very suspicious of people who get along with other people.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 31, 2020 7:59 PM |
In Bette's defense her cuntery with Hayes and Gish happened at the end of her life when she was seriously ill, felt like complete shit and her daughter had deserted her. She was not pleasant to be around in her final years, but before that her disposition was better.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 31, 2020 8:02 PM |
She hit me in the head with a fondue pot, r37.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 31, 2020 8:12 PM |
Holmes behavior at the end of her life was sad. Bette was in pain and cranky at the end but she wasn’t conned or so narcissistic to believe a man in his early forties wanted a woman nearing 90.
It’s so delusional. It reminds me of our dear Olivia de Havilland saying that she should’ve won best actress for gone with the wind since many people preferred Melanie to Scarlet and they were practically Co-leads.
She admits she didn’t raise her children because it interfered with her career. I would say there was bad blood long before that piano player showed up.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 31, 2020 8:16 PM |
She kicked me in the cunt bone.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 31, 2020 8:20 PM |
[quote] According to director Lindsay Anderson, one day while filming The Whales of August he said to Lillian Gish, "Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close-up." Bette Davis remarked: "She should. She invented 'em."
Sounds more complimentary than cunty. Was it a way of saying Gish was old?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 31, 2020 8:56 PM |
She was a cunt who cain't say no.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 31, 2020 8:59 PM |
Maybe it was intended, Holmes' and Anne Baxter's characters (and portrayals) were so blah. Possibly, that was the ideal woman's personality at the time. Similar to Melanie in "Gone with the Wind." Blah & boring.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 31, 2020 9:13 PM |
The cunty story about meeting Bette on the set the first day was never mentioned until Bette died. Nobody had a problem with Bette on that movie. As Anne Baxter (someone who would have been an obvious choice for Bette's rage but instead became fast friends) said, everyone kenw how lucky they were to be filming that amazing script and Bette and her leading man fell in love... it was a very happy set. So yes, Celeste was a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 31, 2020 9:17 PM |
I seem to remember seeing Bette saying something to apologize to Lillian Gish (who wasn't present) on The Tonight Show, I think.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 31, 2020 9:22 PM |
A crew member on one of her later TV movies, "Skyward", said Davis's fridge was well-stocked with Belle vodka and Bell's scotch and that she was either "gracious or terrifying", as many alcoholics are...
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 31, 2020 9:34 PM |
At least Joan always remained a elegant and a lady.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 31, 2020 9:38 PM |
[quote] At least Joan always remained a elegant and a lady.
Except when she was beating her kids and sucking strange cock in her foyer.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 31, 2020 9:46 PM |
This was posted on a DL thread (2012/R198):
I'm the guy who posted earlier and knew Maureen Stapleton. Like I said in an earlier post - Maureen knew Joan Crawford socially, and liked her. She never believed the rumors about Crawford regarding alleged child abuse, and told me me that she strongly believed that Christina Crawford was "doing it for the money."
She didn't know Bette Davis socially, but worked with her in a made for television film based on the life of Gloria Vanderbilt called "Little Gloria - Happy At Last." She said her experience with Davis was not pleasant. Maureen was close to Angela Lansbury, who also starred in the film, and she said that Davis was "mean - a real bitch" to Lansbury - which she was not happy about, since she really liked Lansbury. She was ready to pick a fight with Davis over her behavior - that's how upset she was about Davis's treatment of Lansbury. Lansbury stepped in though, and told Maureen to not let it bother her since Davis is "just that way - a bitch - and don't pay attention to her..." Something like that.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 31, 2020 9:47 PM |
Maureen was a loudmouth drunk, so she has no room to talk. She was also a fucking nutjob- terrified of everything from airplanes to elevators. And an overrated actress who gave the same shanty irish performance in everything.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 31, 2020 9:51 PM |
Celeste manages to make that pink version of the Mame costume look matronly.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 31, 2020 10:12 PM |
[quote]A crew member on one of her later TV movies, "Skyward", said Davis's fridge was well-stocked with Belle vodka and Bell's scotch and that she was either "gracious or terrifying", as many alcoholics are...
I was not a crew member, I had a SPEAKING ROLE in that film!
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 31, 2020 10:12 PM |
But she sure could cut a rug (at 14:40), r55!
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 31, 2020 10:23 PM |
"Maureen was a loudmouth drunk, so she has no room to talk."
Maureen was not only a drunk and a drunken slob, but she was proud of her alcoholism and has no intention of ever stopping - HER words.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 31, 2020 10:31 PM |
Celeste wasn't a cunt!
Bette was the Cuntress of Cuntery! Never was a CUNT more cuntastic!
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 31, 2020 11:39 PM |
Celeste was divine on the soap Loving opposite her real life husband Wesley Addy. She even got a daytime Emmy nomination. Where's the daytime nomination that Bette ever got?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 31, 2020 11:41 PM |
I have a real Emmy! Not that daytime crap. Fuck you!
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 31, 2020 11:50 PM |
[quote] Celeste was divine on the soap Loving opposite her real life husband Wesley Addy.
I hated the cunt, too.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 31, 2020 11:55 PM |
The other All About Eve Celeste vs Bette story has not been mentioned. The one about the teapot that Celeste tells on the DVD audio commentary.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 1, 2021 12:02 AM |
She would have been perfectly cast as Lillian Farmer in Frances but knucklehead Graham Clifford chose Kim Stanley. Lillian Farmer was a health nut and slim but Stanley was much too fat to play her.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 1, 2021 12:07 AM |
There is a great story about a young woman approaching her at a party and asking her if she knew the apartment and where the powder room was..She replied "I am Celeste Holm" The person replied. "I am a great admirer of your work, Miss Holm, but you see I am pregnant and need to pee." Miss Holm just walked away. The host witnessing this ran over and tried to salvage the situation and called Celeste back over and introduced them. "Celeste, this is Mrs. so and so. Her husband might be backing your new play." The pregnant woman replied ."Probably not"
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 1, 2021 12:24 AM |
Celeste had a very educated and "to the manor born" look and air about her, which a more working class looking woman like Bette probably resented.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 1, 2021 12:29 AM |
No Bette just didn't like anyone. Whether it was to the manor born or fake to the manor born or whatever. She was just a miserable cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 1, 2021 12:31 AM |
Bette also knew Celeste didn't deserve the Oscar she won.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 1, 2021 12:31 AM |
So whom did Bette loathe most? Celeste, Crawford, Gish or Miriam Hopkins? Who else was on her shit list?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 1, 2021 12:34 AM |
Sorry to be cunty, but it's "to the manner born," comes from Hamlet.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 1, 2021 12:36 AM |
Wouldn't you be a cunt if you looked 50 through your 20's, 30's and 40's?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 1, 2021 12:38 AM |
During the filming of The Whales of August, director Lindsay Anderson was talking Gish through the filming of Gish's big close ups. Bette, who was on set, interrupted to tell him that Miss Gish didn't need direction on her close ups, that she had invented them. Neither Anderson nor Gish appreciated the interruption.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 1, 2021 12:43 AM |
I'm curious, does anyone know if Lillian Gish invented close ups?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 1, 2021 12:57 AM |
Gish's frequent collaborator and director D. W. Griffith didn't invent invent them but he was the first to use them effectively and extensively and so is often credited with having invented them.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 1, 2021 1:00 AM |
The only thing remember about Celeste Holm was some commercial or PSA she did in the 70s that ran on local nyc television. It’s telling that on her thread half the posts are about Bette, Joan & Lillian fucking Gish. Celeste is a big yawn.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 1, 2021 1:10 AM |
Celeste became very friendly with George Sanders. They were allies on the AAE set.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 1, 2021 1:13 AM |
[quote]So whom did Bette loathe most? Celeste, Crawford, Gish or Miriam Hopkins? Who else was on her shit list?
Faye Dunaway, Susan Hayward, Glenn Ford, Marilyn Monroe, Olivia Hussey, Helen Hayes, Oliver Reed, and Alec Guinness.
She didn't hate Katharine Hepburn, but admitted to being jealous of her. She told Tallullah Bankhead that she copied her style, to which Bankhead replied that she did and did it better than Davis.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 1, 2021 1:16 AM |
Girls of a feather flock together, r77.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 1, 2021 1:16 AM |
R74 - Lillian was the first real star of the first silent films that were feature length and made use of cinematic techniques that built the language of filmic storytelling that is largely still used today. And for her era she was a performer who was subtle and know how to use the power of the close up effectively.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 1, 2021 1:17 AM |
R74 - Lillian was the first real star of the first silent films that were feature length and made use of cinematic techniques that built the language of filmic storytelling that is largely still used today. And for her era she was a performer who was subtle and know how to use the power of the close up effectively.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | January 1, 2021 1:17 AM |
I saw her in The Irregular Verb to Love with Mr. Addy in Central City. Also in the cast, a certain Mr. Christopher Reeve.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 1, 2021 1:19 AM |
At 82 posts, I still don’t see any examples of her actual cuntiness. I think maybe it is more of her manner and roles rather than any actual conduct. She was kind of an Mrs Howell type onscreen but not as likable.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | January 1, 2021 1:20 AM |
I also have a signed photo of Lillian Gish. Jealous, bitches?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | January 1, 2021 1:21 AM |
[quote]Celeste had a very educated and "to the manor born" look and air about her, which a more working class looking woman like Bette probably resented.
Bette Davis was not from a working class background. She was from an old New England family that was upper middle-class and she was educated in private schools.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | January 1, 2021 1:22 AM |
[quote] I also have a signed photo of Lillian Gish. Jealous, bitches?
No.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | January 1, 2021 1:24 AM |
So whom did Bette loathe most? Celeste, Crawford, Gish or Miriam Hopkins? Who else was on her shit list?
R70 Faye.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | January 1, 2021 1:33 AM |
She campaigned to play Ado Annie in the B'way revival of Oklahoma!.
In 1979.
She was 62 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | January 1, 2021 1:34 AM |
R69 - re her Oscar. Gentlemen's Agreement is one of those preachy message films that Hollywood made for a while but I think Celeste is good in it. She is certainly better than the lead actress Dorothy McGuire whom I find sexless and dull dull dull. Celeste plays a likeable society woman who reveals her true feelings of being in love with Gregory Peck, knowing he wants Dorothy. And it helps that her character is not as prejudiced as Dorothy is revealed to be.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 1, 2021 1:34 AM |
[quote] So whom did Bette loathe most? Celeste, Crawford, Gish or Miriam Hopkins? Who else was on her shit list?
That husband she shoved down the stairs and died a couple of weeks later from a brain injury?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 1, 2021 1:36 AM |
r90 Davis's husband was a raging alcoholic and had several falls before the fatal one.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | January 1, 2021 1:38 AM |
But Davis never drank and never had drunken brawls with any of her other husbands?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | January 1, 2021 1:43 AM |
Bette was a drunken bitch. And I loved her. Hepburn was too, but so phony people only remember her as "real." Barf.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | January 1, 2021 1:44 AM |
[quote]But Davis never drank and never had drunken brawls with any of her other husbands?
Of course she was and of course she did. That doesn't mean she was responsible for her husband's death. He was walking down the street in Hollywood and collapsed.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | January 1, 2021 1:52 AM |
She was just a girl who couldn't say no.
But she could say "No, you cunt, no you asshole, NO, NO, NO! Get the fuck away from me!"
by Anonymous | reply 97 | January 1, 2021 1:54 AM |
R75, Griffith is often credited as inventing the close-up with a shot of Pickford. But that is BS. Griffith and Pickford were tireless self-promoters, so they told the story of how they invented the close up and met with resistance. ("We're paying for the whole girl and your're only filming a part of her.")
by Anonymous | reply 98 | January 1, 2021 1:57 AM |
[quote]He was walking down the street in Hollywood and collapsed.
And the Coroner testified it was from a skull fracture suffered at least two weeks earlier. Davis testified tearfully at the inquest she had NO IDEA what could have caused it.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | January 1, 2021 1:58 AM |
From what I've read, they weren't even together when he had the previous fall.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | January 1, 2021 2:02 AM |
Agnes tried hard to get Celeste to repeat her role in the film of Oklahoma! but she was already considered too old by Dick and Oscar in 1955.
Gloria is very wonderful in it.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | January 1, 2021 2:06 AM |
Thanks R2...really interesting video
by Anonymous | reply 102 | January 1, 2021 2:07 AM |
Read more.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | January 1, 2021 2:07 AM |
Celeste was suffering from dementia when she was with that 41 year old guy. I saw them together and he pretty much had to respond for her she was so out of it.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | January 1, 2021 2:12 AM |
Too old to be convincing as a teenager after Gentlemen's Agreement and All About Eve?
How heartless!
by Anonymous | reply 105 | January 1, 2021 2:18 AM |
Leo doesn't sound cunty in that r32 anecdote at all. They weren't both being cunty.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | January 1, 2021 2:21 AM |
Honestly, Celeste!
by Anonymous | reply 107 | January 1, 2021 2:31 AM |
[quote] Too old to be convincing as a teenager after Gentlemen's Agreement and All About Eve?
Not all of us can be as fresh and dewy as the day our careers started!
by Anonymous | reply 108 | January 1, 2021 2:38 AM |
R73 here. I've reread the thread and I swear that half the posts before mine weren't there before I posted my comment about Davis, Gish, Anderson and the Whales in August close ups. It they had been, I wouldn't wouldn't have posted mine since the subject had already been mentioned.
I blame DL. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | January 1, 2021 2:51 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 110 | January 1, 2021 3:48 AM |
RF87 I recall Bette said the only actress she thought was a real bitch that she worked with was Faye Dunaway, who was very unprofessional and kept Bette waiting for hours when she was late, etc. A good story about Bette: she was the ingenue in George Cukor's stock company in Rochester, NY, which starred Laura Hope Crews (Aunt Pittypat in GWTW). When LHC was cast in The Man Who Came To Dinner, and their situations were reversed, apparently Bette was very kind and respectful (her scenes were cut so don't look for her in it).
by Anonymous | reply 111 | January 1, 2021 3:50 AM |
Who is Joan, r110?
by Anonymous | reply 112 | January 1, 2021 3:50 AM |
Another Davis-Holm story was that Bette and Gary Merrill convinced Celeste there was a wonderful shampoo called F. A. G. and apparently Celeste went around to drug stores asking for it.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | January 1, 2021 3:51 AM |
Turn in your gay card, r112.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | January 1, 2021 3:54 AM |
R24 No, I'm not jealous, I have a photo of Bette Davis signed to me.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | January 1, 2021 3:54 AM |
I don’t care about her cuntery. She gave terrific support in every movie she appeared in.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | January 1, 2021 3:56 AM |
R117, that wasn't acting.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | January 1, 2021 3:59 AM |
Well, have to tell ya, r115, that's one I regret not getting. I do have a Joan, however. Plus....I was an extra in The Disappearance of Aimee. I can attest to everything Bette said about Faye.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | January 1, 2021 4:00 AM |
My uncle was also an extra on Aimee, and he said Faye was horrid - shockingly so.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | January 1, 2021 4:03 AM |
I read that on the Aimee tv movie, a whole churchful of extras were sweltering in the heat because Faye was nowhere to be found, so Bette got up on the pulpit and sang "I've Written A Letter To Daddy" for them while they were all waiting.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | January 1, 2021 4:06 AM |
The Temple scene was shot in a Masonic Temple in Denver. It was sweltering hot and Faye took FOREVER to come out of her trailer, r122. And yes, Bette came out in pin curls and spoke to us and then sang Daddy. She was wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | January 1, 2021 4:12 AM |
Nevah.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | January 1, 2021 4:14 AM |
HRT wrote about how Celeste came in for the Dukakis role in "Steel Magnolias" (to meet, not to read) and Herbert Ross refused to consider her because she sat there and bitched about how bad the Oscars ceremony had treated her the night before and then trashed every director she had ever worked with. Herbert didn't want to be next on the list. His quote was "Life's too short for Celeste Holm". (That was the Oscar year young Leo did not know who she was when they met and she scolded him to learn his film history).
by Anonymous | reply 125 | January 1, 2021 4:20 AM |
Oh, oh! And we had to come up with our own costumes that were hopefully somewhat period. They probably had costumed SAG extras in the first couple of rows, but they wanted the Temple to be filled. I went for Bette, not the box lunch.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | January 1, 2021 4:21 AM |
Who's HRT?
by Anonymous | reply 127 | January 1, 2021 4:26 AM |
R122 That's why I posted the clip of Bette saying that.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | January 1, 2021 4:27 AM |
At about 17:45, Carol Kane talks about meeting and becoming friends with Bette Davis, I think around 1980.
Davis was completely uncunty to a much younger actress.
I think Celeste Holm had it coming.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | January 1, 2021 4:37 AM |
OK, cue Misfit Girl and her tales about Marilyn and Clark.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | January 1, 2021 4:43 AM |
Kathy Bates once told me a story of Celeste auditioning for Dolores Claiborne and whining so much to Taylor Hackford, she lost the jrole to Judy Parfitt. Thank god!
by Anonymous | reply 131 | January 1, 2021 4:46 AM |
Judy Parfitt was fantastic in that film and should've won the Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | January 1, 2021 4:48 AM |
I read that Celeste campaigned for the lead in Norma Rae and the Cher role in Silkwood.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | January 1, 2021 4:49 AM |
[quote] HRT wrote about how Celeste came in for the Dukakis role in "Steel Magnolias" (to meet, not to read) and Herbert Ross refused to consider her because she sat there and bitched about how bad the Oscars ceremony had treated her the night before and then trashed every director she had ever worked with. Herbert didn't want to be next on the list. His quote was "Life's too short for Celeste Holm". (That was the Oscar year young Leo did not know who she was when they met and she scolded him to learn his film history).
No it wasn't. Steel Magnolias filmed right after the ceremony for the 1988 Oscars and released in late 1989. Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't nominated until early 1994.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | January 1, 2021 4:54 AM |
WTF is HRT??
by Anonymous | reply 135 | January 1, 2021 4:55 AM |
Celeste became nearly impossible to listen to later in life because something happened with her voice and it was pitched so high, every time she asked for another cup of coffee, every dog in the neighborhood would be in her front yard. And Joni Mitchell.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | January 1, 2021 4:55 AM |
Ya gotta be tough, baby. So what if she wasn't Miss Congeniality?
by Anonymous | reply 137 | January 1, 2021 4:59 AM |
The Herbert Ross Troll, FFS! Calm your tits, R135
by Anonymous | reply 138 | January 1, 2021 5:01 AM |
All of them bitches, including Anderson Cooper.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | January 1, 2021 5:07 AM |
Getting back to the Bette killing her husband story I thought the version was that they had a shoving match on a train and he hit his head which caused the problem he would later die of. I think that's what she told Vincent Sherman who recalled the story.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | January 1, 2021 5:29 AM |
Ok, since we apparently have to pry every little bit out of you stupid bitches, who the fuck is the Herbert Ross Troll, FFS! We aren't all 1,000 years old, and haven't been here since you had to chisel on stone tablets to post.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | January 1, 2021 5:31 AM |
Is the husband Bette killed the same husband she named the Oscar for?
by Anonymous | reply 142 | January 1, 2021 5:38 AM |
Bette Davis liked Carol Kane because CK resembled Bette Davis, physically. CK's voice was all wrong, though (to play Davis).
I still think it's weird that Susan Sarandon didn't even try to get Davis's voice.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | January 1, 2021 5:55 AM |
[quote] Faye was nowhere to be found, so Bette got up on the pulpit and sang "I've Written A Letter To Daddy" for them while they were all waiting.
Ten times she sang it. TEN FUCKING TIMES.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | January 1, 2021 6:09 AM |
Celeste once again performing the song she introduced:
by Anonymous | reply 145 | January 1, 2021 7:00 AM |
The one and only woman I ever slept with was also an extra in that DOA temple scene. She told me that Bette/Faye story thirty years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | January 1, 2021 10:29 AM |
Bette auditioned for Magnolia in the original production of Showboat. She had to sleep with Oscar Hammerstein to get an audition. When she saw the naked statue she said it had Oscar's ass. If she had slept with Ziegfeld it would have been called the Florenzzzz.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | January 1, 2021 11:11 AM |
I had the same thing happen to me yesterday r109, I thought I made a keen observation on a thread and when it reloaded 25 comments showed up, all making the observation hours before me!
by Anonymous | reply 148 | January 1, 2021 11:12 AM |
[quote]I still don’t see any examples of her actual cuntiness.
Refusing to tell a pregnant woman where the powder room is surely counts as cuntiness.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | January 1, 2021 11:22 AM |
Bette's husband Arthur Farnsworth died after they had been seen fighting in a club one night, which started rumors. I know it makes a good story but I doubt that Bette was the cause of his death.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | January 1, 2021 11:32 AM |
I thought Bette pushed Farney down some steps in their farmhouse, Butternut, in New Hampshire.
Another bit of trivia, Celeste lost the role of Milo Roberts, suntan oil heiress, to Nina Foch, in An American In Paris. CH was an Oscar winner and had just been nominated again for All About Eve, vs Nina, who wasn't especially well known, but everyone agreed Nina was better.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | January 1, 2021 2:07 PM |
Bette said Farnsworth had fallen down the stairs at Butternut two months earlier when he went to answer a phone call.
[quote]A rumor persisted that his wife, in a rage, had pushed him down the stairs. It probably isn't true. Farnsworth had other head injuries and collapses that were symptomatic of a neurological problem that eventually caused his untimely death.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | January 1, 2021 2:14 PM |
Damn so much of these posts are 100% made up. Some are funny, but totally false.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | January 1, 2021 2:26 PM |
[quote]It's true. Never "meet" your favorite stars. I wish I hadn't read this thread
If Thelma Ritter was a “Grade A Cunt” keep it to yourselves because I don’t want to know.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | January 1, 2021 3:19 PM |
Don’t fret R154, Thelma Ritter was Jesus with a Brooklyn accent.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | January 1, 2021 3:38 PM |
She used to come stay with Helen Hayes at her home Pretty Penny in Nyack, I met them bot several times. She could not have been nicer. Two lovely ladies.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | January 1, 2021 3:44 PM |
The story on Twitter is that Celeste was a grade A cunt to everyone when she appeared at a Princess Grace tribute years ago (after Grace's death). Jimmy Stewart was pleasant but apparently Celeste was a total cunt to everyone, and looked at the people riding the elevator with her as if they stank. How dare they ride with HER!
From that thread: "I was *Celeste’s* usher and was to escort her to the stage when her tribute came. I walked to her aisle seat as rehearsed, spotlight firmly on us, when she flailed her arms, shoved me aside and ran down to the stage while I was still in the spotlight. What a bitch."
by Anonymous | reply 157 | January 1, 2021 3:46 PM |
[quote] It's true. Never "meet" your favorite stars.
One of the artists I love, and who is a very big part of my life, is Joni Mitchell.
But I *already* know from interviews that she is, let's say, not the warmest person in the world. Meeting her would wreck me. I'd also probably slap that old cunt in the face. So yes, I have no desire to meet her. Never witness how the sausages are made.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | January 1, 2021 3:48 PM |
R156, I am not sure if this is a joke, but Helen Hayes seems to have been universally despised (in NYC at least). Read memoirs of the period and you can see the bitter feelings toward her even when masked with period propriety.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | January 1, 2021 4:09 PM |
Helen Hayes was unpleasant? I didn't know that. She seemed like such a nice old lady.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | January 1, 2021 4:19 PM |
The whole "First Lady of American Theater" thing really rubbed her peers the wrong way. And she started playing grande dame at a young age around people who knew her too well.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | January 1, 2021 4:24 PM |
How in the world did they think of Gloria Grahame for the film of Oklahoma?
by Anonymous | reply 162 | January 1, 2021 5:13 PM |
Listen, this thread is fine. But there will absolutely be no dragging of the great Gloria Grahame in this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | January 1, 2021 5:27 PM |
Who?
by Anonymous | reply 164 | January 1, 2021 5:28 PM |
How dare you R164.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | January 1, 2021 5:30 PM |
[quote]she flailed her arms, shoved me aside and ran down to the stage while I was still in the spotlight.
No cartwheels? She always did cartwheels at the Golden Globes. Before the show, she'd be at the Beverly Hilton tumbling up and down the red carpet in her rehearsal sweats. Then about about fifteen minutes before the press arrived, she'd go into her RV parked in the Robinson's May parking lot and change into her outfit.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | January 1, 2021 5:38 PM |
What was her first name, r146?
by Anonymous | reply 167 | January 1, 2021 6:24 PM |
[quote] I had the same thing happen to me yesterday [R109], I thought I made a keen observation on a thread and when it reloaded 25 comments showed up, all making the observation hours before me!
Same here, too. A couple weeks ago I posted about the death of someone in the Theatre Gossip thread, shocked no one had beaten me to it, and then it refreshed and there had been a two hour long discussion on it.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | January 1, 2021 10:05 PM |
This happens all the time on DL. It's happened to me, too. Like I respond to the comment above me without quoting it and by the time it goes online there's six comments between mine and it, and mine sounds like I'm the lonely ninety-something DL schizophrenic.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | January 1, 2021 10:48 PM |
Celeste Holm on Fresh Air:
So I - we were all sitting there, and I said: Did you know that the man who made the wonderful glass teapot, Pyrex, when he found out they were using it to make martinis, he stopped making them?
And Bette drank more than she should, I thought. And so she looked at me and she said: I don't know how I've lived this long without knowing that.
(lol)
by Anonymous | reply 170 | January 14, 2021 2:54 PM |
More! This is a great thread. Thanks OP!
by Anonymous | reply 171 | January 14, 2021 4:17 PM |
I met Celeste Holm at a backer’s audition for a musical that never got produced. She told us she was going to recreate her role of Ado Annie in a revival of Oklahoma. In fact, the producers offered her the role of Aunt Eller, and she turned it down. She was in her early 70s.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | January 14, 2021 5:45 PM |
I forgot until just now I saw her in a play, Habeas Corpus. I was a little kid, it was the first play I went to, my parents took me, I have the program, and she was in it though I don't remember her. I remember Rachel Roberts (though I had no idea who she was, then) because she was hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | January 14, 2021 6:43 PM |
It's a shame Celeste never played Aunt Eller in an OKLAHOMA revival on Broadway. What a casting coup and she could have been brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | January 14, 2021 6:46 PM |
R174 How? She was totally wrong for it.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | January 14, 2021 10:42 PM |
R32 well maybe he’s straight after all.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | April 28, 2021 5:56 PM |
If she really was still desperately trying to play Ado Annie into her 70s, I feel sorry for her. Even Norma Desmond was only 50 when she thought she could still play that sort of role. When you make Norma Desmond seem relatively same and reasonable, well...
by Anonymous | reply 178 | April 28, 2021 7:42 PM |
It's telling that much of a thread about Celeste Holm turned into a thread about Bette Davis.
And that's the sort of thing that would have driven Holm crazy and made Davis laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | April 28, 2021 8:00 PM |
Sorry Bea but Tallulah was right.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | April 28, 2021 10:56 PM |
r181 Taloo was correct about bone structure, but Bea became a bigger star than Bankhead, so she had the last laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | October 26, 2021 1:00 AM |
Bea may have had a longer career but Bankhead is truly legendary and was a movie and stage star. An icon for sure.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | December 26, 2022 12:42 AM |
R6...I like cuntry. Getting a little off topic, I'll use that when I feel disgusted with the US. My cuntry...
by Anonymous | reply 184 | December 26, 2022 1:06 AM |
I’m so glad the election is over so we can get back to Celeste Holmes and her enemies. This thread made me laugh for the first time since Nov 5.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | November 22, 2024 3:37 AM |
LOVE that Bea Arthur clip at r180!! Truly DL at its best.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | November 22, 2024 3:45 AM |
I think Celeste was the kind of celebrity with whom it would be fun to share a meal....but not one with whom to work (sorry, is that grammar horrible?).
Lots of actors can be like that from my decades of experience.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | November 22, 2024 3:50 AM |
I remember seeing Celeste Holm on some talk show back in the day. She lost favor with me then because she claimed that she had been sent a script for Golden Girls and they invited her to be one of the four leads. She thought that a show about women in their late 50s or mid 60s still interested in men and sex was very tacky and tasteless and she didn't want to be associated with anything like that.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | November 22, 2024 4:20 AM |
That’s why she married a 40 year old when she was 40+ years older than him…
by Anonymous | reply 189 | November 22, 2024 4:27 AM |
All I know is from interviews I’ve seen over the decades and found several to be contradictory-come on Karen you’re being a Karen.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | November 22, 2024 4:31 AM |
[quote] On her first day, on the set of “All About Eve”, she said “Good morning, Miss Davis. Bette responded: “Oh shit! Good manners!” It seems Bette read her beads and thought she was phony. Celeste refused to talk to Bette off the set, during the entire film.
If I were Celeste, I would find that legitimately funny. Bette was breaking the ice to see if Celeste would loosen up.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | November 27, 2024 12:52 PM |
Bankhead couldn't hack it in Hollywood, despite making multiple attempts. The public wouldn't go to the cinema to look at her.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | November 27, 2024 8:23 PM |
At least when they were in public, Celeste's last husband appeared to have a kind of genuine love and affection for her. It's also well known that he took excellent care of her, they were constantly out and about together seeing shows and enjoying things. She was mentally competent when they first began seeing each other, though the memory loss treatment started soon after. She married him so he'd have legal protection as her spouse in the settling of her estate. The complication came when she lived far longer than expected. Her kids were in their 60s/70s when Celeste finally died, past retirement age themselves, but still haggling over mama's money and apartment.
In what had to have been one of her last public performances, Celeste appeared at an open mic at Birdland with him. She sang "I Cain't Say No" and together they did "Millionaire."
Also saw Celeste singing in the Town Hall cabaret festival, she led an audience singalong to "True Love." It was surprising she didn't revisit some of her "Bloomer Girl" hits.
Can't remember if anyone linked this article, it's from about a year before Holm went home. Wonder what has become of the husband.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | November 27, 2024 10:36 PM |
A real oddity: a very lipsticky Celeste as a guest player on the syndicated game show Pay Cards!
She enters and says with a passive-aggressive lilting laugh that she wasn't sure the host remembered her name.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | November 28, 2024 12:18 AM |
[quote]She was mentally competent when they first began seeing each other, though the memory loss treatment started soon after.
I bet it did.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | November 28, 2024 7:04 PM |
I loved Celeste Holm. She was always one of my favorite actresses.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | November 28, 2024 9:38 PM |
Celeste
by Anonymous | reply 197 | December 3, 2024 7:17 PM |
Celeste dragged out the anecdote, at every opportunity, about Bette rebuffing her chipper greeting at the start of filming for All About Eve. Not everyone is into becoming fast friends, especially at work. Maybe she came on strong and Bette was wary of this kind of behavior.
Reminds me of Patti Lupone and her inability to let go of past slights.
If you talk about it once or twice, that's fair, and nobody minds hearing your side of the story. If you harp on it for 30+ years it makes you wonder who the problematic party really was.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | December 3, 2024 7:59 PM |