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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 24, 2021 22:55:03 GMT
Popular, but real rivalries.... First one that came to my mind was Bette David and John Crawford.
"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good!" - Bette Davis
I'll look for more. I'm more interested in directors criticizing others' works. Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino have said words about each other, mostly about vulgar language, but I rather find more things concrete about their movies, or career in general.
Here's a great site
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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 25, 2021 17:37:54 GMT
A movie friend just told me Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" when Elia Kazan became a rat.
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Post by phantomparticle on Oct 25, 2021 23:48:09 GMT
DeMille-Ford
Some years ago I was watching a documentary about the Army-McCarthy Hearings and this story came up.
At a meeting of producers and directors DeMille began haranguing everyone about Communist influence in the business and demanded that something be done about it.
After several minutes, there was a lull and John Ford, who had said nothing during the entire session, stood up and said (quoting from memory): Cecil, you're a great film director, but I don't like you," after which he proceeded to skin DeMille alive.
I wish I could recall the name of the documentary, but there are so many of them, it is hard to keep track. May find it again some day.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 26, 2021 11:44:49 GMT
DeMille-Ford Some years ago I was watching a documentary about the Army-McCarthy Hearings and this story came up. At a meeting of producers and directors DeMille began haranguing everyone about Communist influence in the business and demanded that something be done about it. After several minutes, there was a lull and John Ford, who had said nothing during the entire session, stood up and said (quoting from memory): Cecil, you're a great film director, but I don't like you," after which he proceeded to skin DeMille alive. I wish I could recall the name of the documentary, but there are so many of them, it is hard to keep track. May find it again some day.
I hope you do remember it! I (and others I'm sure) would love to see it..
I heard someone mention this meeting, with Ford supposedly saying, "You're wrong about this one, Cecil"
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