That "absence of real beauty" thing is pathetic. But I distrust most quotes unless they're in an interview or it's one of the things Davis or Crawford said in their late-career television interviews. Otherwise, too often "quotes" are repeated and recycled and yet nobody can point to where they were first supposedly said.
Crawford sounded like an ass in many of her TV interviews, particularly one where she got snooty about either Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor dressing in a tacky, slutty manner - something about how plenty of women have what they have, they just don't throw it around like they do. She came off straight up jealous, all the more so when we remember the kinds of pictures out there from Crawford's youth. Bette Davis was sexy. She had a great figure, curvy but petite, an incredible intensity and great intelligence and directness in her eyes. For that matter, I never noticed Davis hiding her face. Crawford, OTOH, plastered her features with so much make-up she may as well have hid her face - those certainly weren't her actual lips, and her hair was often enough a wig.
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