The plastic sisters in the entertainment industry spend a lot.
There are also many dark pokes and pokes to tear B.
But when it comes to tearing B, no one can get past the originators of tearing B– Betty Davis and Joan Crawford.
They are a pair of famous nemesis.
In 2017, the story of the two was also put on the big screen "Old Enemy: Betty and Joan", and the Douban score was as high as 9.0.
Their feud is so popular because both are Hollywood actresses of the last century.
Betty Davis, known as the "First Lady of Cinema".
Joan Crawford, known as the "Queen of Cinema".
They are very similar: they all truly love acting, they all strive for various roles, and they all achieve great achievements through struggle.
But they hate each other, are lifelong enemies, and are the originators of the B-world.
For Crawford, tearing up with Betty for two reasons:
One is to contribute to the cause.
The mutual tearing of the two is well known, which is conducive to publicity and maintaining heat.
The second is that it is too similar.
Both are tough actresses.
Speaking of which, both are hollywood inspirational superstars.
Betty Davis, is a great performing artist.
She was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She was the first actress to fight a lawsuit with a production company in order to fight for a role.
She has been nominated for 11 Oscars and 2 times for Little Golden Man, and is the first actress to receive more than 10 nominations.
Among the greatest actresses of a hundred years, she ranks 2nd, behind Catherine Hepburn.
Her image of smoking a cigarette and tearful eyes not only makes female audiences like, but also attracts many actresses to imitate.
It can be said that Betty is a superstar among Hollywood superstars.
But she's a different kind of superstar.
Because she's not a beauty.
To be precise, her appearance is too ordinary.
Initially going to Hollywood for an audition, the company sent a car to pick her up at the train station.
The driver looked for a long time, did not see anyone with star temperament, and drove back with an empty car.
It was agreed that Betty had conquered Hollywood entirely through her acting skills.
His acting career spanned 60 years and he interpreted more than 120 different roles.
Crawford is weaker than Betty, but also extremely inspirational.
Film critic Ian Nathan said: "Crawford came from an extremely poor background.
Her path to the screen was arduous, and although it was cheesy, she became famous for her wisdom and willpower. ”
In the change from silent film to sound, many people were ruthlessly abandoned by the times, but Crawford survived with his acting skills.
At the peak of her career, she was praised by the media as the "Queen of Movies".
Just 18 months later, it was deemed to have lost value by the company, and even called it "box office poison".
But she didn't give in.
She constantly fought for roles for herself, climbed out of the trough again and again, and finally won an Oscar at the age of nearly 40.
His acting career also reached 45 years.
In Hollywood, where there is no shortage of young beauties, there are very, very few people like them who are evergreen.
Another common denominator is that neither of them comes from a good background.
Betty's childhood was unhappy.
So was Joan.
Betty was born on April 5, 1908, Massachusetts, USA.
At the age of 7, his parents divorced.
From then on, Betty's life was never again fatherly love.
Fortunately, the mother is stoic.
She raised two daughters alone and gave them a good education.
When Betty aspired to be an actress, her mother personally accompanied her to the audition.
Therefore, when Betty became an adult, she did not rely on others, did not find the love that was missing in childhood, and relied on herself.
Crawford is the opposite of Betty.
Her parents didn't give her love, but gave her amazing beauty.
Crawford was born in Texas in 1904.
As soon as Crawford was born, his father ran away.
The mother is also unreliable, and even whether she has ever been married is controversial. At the most exaggerated time, Joan had three fathers, but none of them were her own biological fathers...
His stepfather initially managed a theater and lost his job due to embezzlement.
The family was forced to move out of the city and briefly ran a hotel, but only received a bunch of debts.
Soon, the mother and stepfather separated.
The family was so poor that Crawford only went to school intermittently for a few days.
Most of her time is spent on housework and odd jobs.
Later, Crawford simply dropped out of school to learn dance.
She danced striptease, willfully married and divorced, made, slept with Hollywood directors just to get a role...
Beauty gave her the opportunity to go to Hollywood and eventually became a generation of superstars.
Lack of love, let her spend her whole life frantically looking for a sense of existence, tearing is one of the ways.
Crawford and Betty's feud began in 1935.
Betty was filming Woman woman and fell in love with her partner Towne.
Betty and Towne
Toyn was in a relationship with Crawford.
Crawford and Towne
When Crawford went to the set to visit the class, he found the ambiguity between the two.
With a vicious look in their eyes, the two began their first head-to-head confrontation.
Originally, Joan Crawford and Towne had no intention of marrying.
But immediately after the set incident, Crawford married Tonne. Then quickly divorced.
As for the reason for this, it is very ridiculous to say that it is to be angry with Betty, who has been in love with Tonne.
Subsequently, on various occasions, the two tore up when they met, making everyone known.
In 1942, war broke out, and Betty co-founded the "Hollywood Restaurant".
Betty at a Hollywood restaurant
The restaurant offered free meals to soldiers, cabaret performances, and promised big stars to be waiters every night.
Soldiers were so excited to see idol Linda Darnell at a Hollywood restaurant
On this day, the star who came to volunteer was Crawford.
She was enjoying the fandom of the time, when she signed the autograph beautifully.
Betty suddenly came over and said, "Hello, Joan, you are in great need in the kitchen right now, there are a lot of dishes to wash." ”
There are many more stories of tearing each other apart between the two.
Betty mocks Crawford for crying, poor acting, and debauchery:
"Her tear glands must be as developed as her bladder."
"The best role she plays is herself."
"She's slept with every male star at MGM, except for Lacey the Greyhound."
Crawford is not to be outdone:
"I don't hate Betty, though the media wants me to. I just hate her. ”
"I don't understand, how can she achieve career success by relying on a set of pretentious words and deeds, rather than real acting skills?"
"What else is left of her goldfish eyes, a small cigarette, and comical acronyms?"
"She's too pretentious, but I guess the public just likes that."
But at that time, they still belonged to different companies, and most of them were still tearing each other apart.
Until 1945, the 41-year-old Crawford, who was no longer valued at MGM, jumped to Warner.
At this time, Betty is Warner's sister, and has already received the queen laurels, and does not take Crawford seriously.
She often ridiculed Crawford, "We act to be a good actor, and Joan is just a big star." ”
Crawford struck in the opposite direction: "But I am beautiful! ”
It is also not objective to say that Crawford's acting skills are poor.
Because of her first film at Warner, she got the little golden man.
This film is betty's leftover book - "Desire for the Sea Demon".
After reading the script, Crawford felt that this was a role that could prove himself.
But there are a lot of actresses who want to star, and the director doesn't like Crawford very much.
In order to get the role, Crawford put down the shelf and went to the audition with a plain face, and it was not easy to get the role.
The film tells the story of an ambitious single mother who sacrificed everything, even her life, for her daughter, but her daughter was ungrateful.
The story itself is good, but Crawford's excellent interpretation gives the characters some darkness and coldness, which makes people love and hate.
Crawford won his first Oscar, and it deserved it.
But when she received the award, she started to do things again.
She deliberately did not attend the award ceremony, but sat on the bed, holding the little golden man trophy, and the cloud lightly posed for a picture.
What is the purpose of this?
Just because Betty attaches great importance to trophies, and every time she wins, she is very excited.
Joan satirizes Betty's "never seen the world" in a high profile.
Betty misses the third little golden man in her heart, and the old enemy gets it.
Relationships naturally deteriorate.
But Crawford saw an opportunity in it.
It was 1962, and Crawford had stumbled upon "The Blue Girl".
This is a thriller novel about the feud between two old women.
Crawford realized that it was a good fit for a movie, and that nemesis Betty could be the right opponent.
So he went to Betty with the book and left a famous saying: "After twenty years of waiting, I want to cooperate with Miss Davis once." ”
It turned out that betty had refused to work with Crawford since the two became colleagues.
At first Betty was as reluctant as ever, but seeing that the director was very good, she was convinced.
But the director was also tortured by the two in the process of filming.
Betty is said to have seen the first words of the director of "Lan Boudoir" and asked him, did he sleep with Joan?
She couldn't see Crawford's style.
And Crawford couldn't stand Betty's contempt and strength.
When the two were filming, the fake scene was really done, the real fight was really scolded, and the ear melon fan "snapped".
There's a scene where Betty carries Crawford into the house.
Crawford knew that Betty had a waist injury and deliberately put a pile of stones in his pocket.
After filming this scene, Betty's back injury recurred.
In retaliation, Betty denigrated in an interview: "Crawford's chest is fake, hard enough to hurt the head." ”
Crawford immediately called the media: "Betty is older than my mother. ”
Between filming, the two did not stop fighting.
At that time, Crawford's husband was the chairman of Pepsi, and Crawford naturally became a spokesperson, and a Pepsi drink machine was specially placed on the set.
Betty saw it and immediately got a Coca-Cola drink machine and put it aside.
Even the staff said they really hated each other, but their performance was absolutely perfect.
Because fans are also familiar with the grudge between the two, the film side also deliberately used photos that were very happy to talk about when the film side promoted it.
At the press conference, due to the small headline size of the newspaper, it was impossible to publish two protagonists at the same time.
So the two pretended to be very close and huddled tightly together.
While staring at the same time, he kept smiling, and no one let anyone.
Of course, the reporter would be happy to see such a scene.
Sure enough, the film was also very popular.
Betty's character, in particular, is vicious and terrifying, but deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the audience is very addicted.
Betty was nominated for the 11th Oscar, setting a record for an Oscar nomination.
Betty did not forget to take the opportunity to taunt Crawford:
"Why can I play the slut so well?" Because I'm not a slut.
Probably for this reason, she can always play a lady. ”
Crawford was not nominated, and his teeth itched.
To this end, she deliberately went to other candidates, hoping to receive the award on her behalf.
Soon, Crawford's opportunity to fight back arrived.
On Oscar night, Betty desperately wanted to be sealed three times, but did not hear her name.
At this time, Crawford next to him stood up and said happily, "You didn't win the prize, so happy." Please, Jean, I'm going to claim an award (the winner is Anne Bencroft, who didn't attend the award ceremony, Crawford accepted the award on his behalf). ”
It was Betty who was nominated, but Crawford who received the award.
Betty could only watch dryly, but Crawford took the stage.
Then, MGM saw the success of this film and decided to make another "The Most Poisonous Woman's Heart" in the original team.
As a result, because Betty publicly said that Joan was fake, she said that the age was exactly 4 years younger, and she was torn up again.
Since then, the two have not interacted with each other since.
But they never stopped fighting.
When Betty had her first child, Crawford was always accustomed to miscarriage, so he immediately ran to adopt a son and a daughter.
Later, Betty gave birth to a very beautiful daughter, and the media praised her.
Crawford was furious and adopted a more beautiful daughter, and they were twins.
When Betty heard about it, of course, she would not let go of the opportunity to taunt: "She went to the supermarket to buy children again?" ”
After Joan Crawford's death in 1977, Joan's adopted daughter wrote a book accusing Joan of being too vicious.
The media specifically contacted Betty, but Betty said: "You shouldn't say bad things about dead people, you should only say good." Joan Crawford, is dead. ”
Didn't Betty hate Crawford?
Maybe they never hated each other.
"Old Enemies: Betty and Joan" is a saying: "Old grudges have nothing to do with hate, old grudges stem from pain." ”
Because they're so similar.
Similar to "Old Enemies: Betty and Joan", it is said: "You two have so much in common that no one else in the world is as similar as you." ”
Civilians are born, have no talent, no resources, and don't care if the characters are negative or negative, regardless of age, step by step to become superstars.
The hardships and pains in it can only be understood by each other.
Joan was married 5 times in her life and Betty 4 times.
The feud between the two of them lasted for 30 years, longer than any marriage.
In more than 30 years of feuds, they have long become each other's special existence.
Tearing each other apart has also become an interaction.
Two people with different names, in this way, also become important people in each other's lives.
They saw themselves in each other.
Also in this interaction, they have always been scrappy and unwilling to be left behind, and have achieved their unique glory for decades.
Author: Watergate Ferret