The night Davis was given the AFI award

Celeste seemed to have a resentment towards Bette even before filming started.


Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe and Celeste Holm all flew together on Darryl Zanuck's private seaplane to begin filming in San Francisco. Celeste referred to Bette as the Queen Bee and asked Gary what he thought it would be like working with the Queen Bee.

I know that when Holm said "Good Morning" to Bette Davis on the first day of filming, Bette's reply was " oh Sh&t, good manners" I wonder if Davis was already told about the queen bee comment. Still, Holm must not have been as offended as she clamed. She showed up to a major event in Bette's life. I guess Holm was right after all. Bette Davis was the Queen!

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I remember watching the salute back in 1977. It ran for 90 minutes and Holm actually spoke and saluted Davis. I guess the resentment , if there was any, had long ago disappeared!!

Howver, if I 've got it right, though, the interviews in which Holm dishes Davis were done AFTER the AFI salute, and quite pissibly after Davis's death.

"Forget it, Jake. It's the internet."

Any negative comments from Holm were made after Davis had died . You're right Harold Robbins!










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Holm also said nasty things about Anne Baxter. She mocked Baxter's love for culture and literature and she was also very derogatory towards Marilyn Monroe ("Who's girl is that???")

She was the real bitch of the film, according to the book "All About All About Eve." She threatened not to work when she learned her dressing room was located farthest from the set. And when all these details about her behavior was excerpted by Vanity Fair magazine, she wrote an angry letter to the magazine. In her letter, she said the book made it seem that the film was made under a cloud of hostilities and acrimony. She also insisted that the film would't have been as brilliant as it is had it not been for the full cooperation of cast and crew. And then she went on to make the same criticisms she'd been making about Bette Davis!

At the AFI awards, it's telling that Celeste Holm took on the job of presenting the clips of all the villainesses Davis played.

I believe women were naturally jealous of Bette Davis. Joan Crawford who so badly wanted Bette's respect and never really attained it,begged director Vincent Sherman not to go to the AFI honor that night, but he ignored her. Bette was the first!








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I wouldn't say all women were. I don't think Hepburn was the least bit jealous of any of her contemporaries. I doubt Stanwyck was either...she didn't want to be restricted to one studio.

Sweet merciful crap!

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