Was she a real diva in person?

she was much worse than a mere diva.. she was a raging, insecure bitc#, a fact which made her lash out viciously at her co-stars, rivals or anyone she perceived to be a threat to her in any way..

just look up the milelong list of foul, vile insults she hurled at joan crawford alone.. it's all well-documented..

the woman, for all of her acting bravado, was unfortunately quite a nasty piece of work..

it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the landing

She liked to work with professionals . She wanted her films to be the best they could be and she didn't put up with nonsense. She called them as she saw them. I believe she fought for what she got and once she proved herself as the great actress she was , weak directors needed to disappear ! There were a few stars with Diva like demanding behavior, who were far more concerned with the way things looked , than the way things were, but Bette Davis wasn't one if them!

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She liked to work with professionals.

please.. stop peddling that sanitized 'fantasy' about davis.. the woman was a raging bitc# and her ghastly and totally unprofessional and uncalled-for behavior on the set of 'weht baby jane?' proves it beyond the shadow of a doubt.. even her more discerning fans admit this..

besides, no one was more of a 'professional' than crawford and yet, unlike davis, crawford never felt the unscrupulous, insecure need to verbally abuse and violently mistreat her co-stars as if they were absolute garbage simply out of insecurity..

again, stop trying to 'whitewash' davis' raging bitc# on steroids persona.. after all, for someone who allegedly so-called 'liked to work with professionals,' it is extremely odd and bewildering that she herself often behaved like a crude, drunken sailor on the set of her films.. as i said, the milelong list of vile gutter insults she hurled at crawford alone reveals bette to be quite a nasty, foul, insecure bitc# of a woman in every sense of the word..

calling davis a mere 'diva' is like calling jeffrey dahmer 'rude'.. neither adjective seems quite sufficient for the simple reason that they were both much, much worse than that..



it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the landing

Had there ever been a co-star who said nice things about her?

well, it depends whether you mean off the record or on the record..

to my knowledge, no one ever said anything truly or genuinely 'nice' abut her off the record (i.e., when they could speak freely without fear of her retaliation)..

on the record (i.e., publicly), i'm sure she had a string of fake bff's who told her only what she wanted to hear and who pretended she walked on water.. i.e., the bette davis bull$#ite peddlers club..

however, off the record, it was an entirely different story..

suffice it to say that the woman never again received even a single oscar nod after 1962.. for a self-described 'best actress extraordinaire,' that's the equivalent of being given the collective finger by the entire hollywood community.. that alone should give you some indication as to how miserably she was regarded by her own peers and the degree of sheer scorn she had reaped from her 'pals' in the profession..

it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the landing

So many of her co-stars lavished praise on her; Angela Lansbury, Joan Leslie, Mary Astor, Olivia de Havilland, Gena Rowlands, Keenan Wynn, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner,Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Thelma Ritter, James Stewart, Peter Lawford, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Christopher Lee,James Woods, Ann-Margret, Henry Fonda, Paul Henried, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Ann Sothern and Franchot Tone, among many others.

Those who openly disliked her include Joan Collins, Oliver Reed, Brian Aherne, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Celeste Holm,Robert Montgomery, Helen Hayes and I'm sure there were more.


There are co-stars who both praised and expressed dislike of her: Joan Crawford, Faye Dunaway, Celeste Holm.

Barbara Stanwyck praised Davis as an actress, but never as a person or co-worker, so she would more likely fall into the last category.

Sweet merciful crap!

It's just tea! *sips* Needs more gin.

But since there is no record of Stanwyck maligning Davis as a person, she falls into the category of co-stars who praised Davis.