Hell's House (1932)
Bette Davis as Peggy Gardner
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Insults compiled from various books, magazines, newspapers and IMDB.com.
Glamour a tope
Bette Davis on Joan Crawford: “I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.”
Bette Davis on Joan Crawford: “The only male at MGM she hasn’t slept with is Lassie!”
Bette Davis on Joan Crawford: “My mother told me to only speak good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
Carole Lombard on Vivien Leigh: “That f–king English bitch.”
Frank Sinatra on Dorothy Kilgallen: “The chinless wonder.”
Frank Sinatra on Dorothy Kilgallen: "If you happen to run into Dorothy Kilgallen, be sure you’re in your car.“
Frank Sinatra on Shelley Winters: “A bowlegged bitch of a Brooklyn blonde.”
Humphrey Bogart on William Holden: “A dumb prick.”
Joan Crawford on Bette Davis: “She has a cult, and what the hell is a cult except a gang of rebels without a cause. I have fans. There’s a big difference.”
John Gielgud on Ingrid Bergman: “Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.”
John Wayne on Clark Gable: “Gable’s an idiot. You know why he’s an actor? It’s the only thing he’s smart enough to do.”
Laurence Olivier on Marilyn Monroe: “My hatred for her was one of the strongest emotions I had ever felt.”
Myrna Loy on Clark Gable: "He couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag”
Richard Harris on Michael Caine: “An over-fat, flatulent, 62-year-old windbag. A master of inconsequence masquerading as a guru, passing off his vast limitations as pious virtues.”
Shelley Winters on Frank Sinatra: “A skinny, no-talent, stupid, Hoboken bastard.”
Sterling Hayden on Joan Crawford: “There’s is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.”
Walter Mattheu to Barbra Streisand during an on set argument while making HELLO DOLLY!: “I have more talent in my farts than you have in your whole body.”
William Holden on Humphrey Bogart: “I hated the bastard.”