I love stories about actors/directors clashing on set.

john g avildsen and dan aykroyd and john belushi had some problems on neighbors i hear.

Clashing? Well...

How about a story about just getting tired of waiting for the director to say: "ACTION"...


In the movie, "I’ll Be Seeing You" (1994), there is a night scene where Joe Cotton & Ginger Rogers are walking down the street, when Joe Cotton's character is attacked by a dog...

Ginger noted in her Autobiography, that there were various problems in being able to shoot this scene, and so it took a couple of nights to shoot it. Of course everyone had to be onset all that time, so that when these problems were solved, they could finally shoot the scene, and they wouldn't have to track down the actors.

On the SECOND night, problems continued on and it didn't look like they were going to shoot the scene that night, either. It was getting late, and Ginger was getting tired of just sitting there... So, she decided to play a joke on the director, Bill Dieterle, in hopes that he would cancel the rest of that night's shoot, and let them all go home...

Ginger Rogers did not drink alcohol, and this was well known... So she decided to pretend to be drunk. Only Joe Cotton was in on the joke. Ginger asked Joe to go inform the director that she was drunk, and that they should probably cancel the rest of the filming that night...

As it turns out, the problems were about over, and they were nearly ready to shoot the scene...

Everyone was obviously concerned, and so... Ginger was sent a pot of coffee, and people were checking up on her, ETC. Some told her that they were just about ready to shoot the scene. "Just ten more minutes"... As Ginger continued her joke, she said, you been telling me "ten more minutes" over and over again for the last 3 hours!

Finally it came time to go to the set. And she did, "drunk". She rehearsed the scene..."drunk"... Everyone was still worried... But, Bill Dieterle had a tight schedule in shooting this scene, and needed to shoot it that night. So, he asked Ginger to rehearse the scene again, hoping that somehow, they could manage to get it filmed...

Joe Cotton finally realized things were getting serious, and told Ginger to straighten up. But Ginger was now having "FUN". So, she decided to rehearse the scene once more... "drunk".

While rehearsing, one of the producers stepped out from the shadows, and Ginger finally realized it was time to stop joking, and dropped the act. However, it took a while to convincing everyone, that she was only joking... and that she was ready to go.

The scene was finally shot.

I heard with Lucy liu it was misinterpreted what he said. He was actually mad with the script and said to Lucy liu she's better than what've the script was giving her and somehow she took that as an insult.

The tension between Val Kilmer and John Frankenheimer while making 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' (1996) sounds too good to be true sometimes.

Vincent Price fighting with Michael Reeves on Witchfinder General.


Filming wrapped as scheduled on 13 November 1967. The production went relatively smoothly, except for the unrelentingly antagonistic relationship that developed between director Michael Reeves and Vincent Price. Reeves kept it no secret from everyone associated with the production that the American actor was not his choice for the role, and the director's comments had reached the actor back in the US. Reeves refused Price the courtesy of meeting him at London's Heathrow Airport when he arrived in England, a "deliberate snub calculated to offend both Price and AIP". "Take me to your goddamn young genius," Price reportedly said to co-producer Philip Waddilove, who greeted the actor at the airport instead of Reeves. When Price went on location and met Reeves for the first time, the young director told the actor, "I didn't want you, and I still don't want you, but I'm stuck with you!".

According to Kim Newman in his book "Nightmare Movies", when Reeves made a suggestion on the set, Price objected and told the director, "I've made 87 films. What have you done?" And Reeves responded, "I've made three good ones".

Price later recalled, "Reeves hated me . . . He didn't want me at all for the part. I didn't like him, either. It was one of the first times in my life that I've been in a picture where the director and I just clashed." Price felt that all the actors on the set had a difficult time with the director, explaining: "Michael Reeves could not communicate with actors. He would stop me and say, 'Don't move your head like that.' And I would say, 'Like what? What do you mean?' He'd say, 'There--you're doing it again. Don't do that'." Price reportedly became so upset with Reeves that he refused to watch the film's dailies.