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Making Movies: Stars Who Collide
Movie stars are an enigma. They are flamboyant and larger than life, and inspire adulation by the masses. However, a certain combination of these stars can produce fireworks along with the great movies in which they appear.
Let’s face it. The ego of a Hollywood star can be a terrible thing Especially when it clashes with that of another star. Here is what happened when some these stars collided.
Kris Kristofferson
Barbra Streisand is famous for her bouncy bubbly busy onscreen characters. But after co-starring with Barbra in A Star is Born (1976), Kris Kristofferson commented that “working with Barbra almost cured me of movies. It’s like sitting down to a picnic in the middle of a freeway.”
Orson Welles
Orson Welles certainly had a reputation as a serious actor with roots in Shakespeare. On the other hand, Peter Sellers was famous for his hilarious onscreen antics. Apparently, Orson Welles hated Peter Sellers so much that he insisted on shooting a scene they shared in the spy spoof Casino Royale (1967) on separate days. In the film, both appeared at a gambling table together but they actually delivered their lines to dummies during filming.
Bette Davis
The most publicized feud during the early days of Hollywood was between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Their ongoing rivalry was great fodder for the gossip columns for years. It reached a fever pitch after Davis publicly stated, “The best time I ever had with Joan in a film was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen was born into the industry. Even so, he became so irritated with co-star Sean Young on the set of Wall Street (1987) that he pinned a note to her back that had “I am a bitch” written on it in large letters.
Klaus Kinski
His feud with director Werner Herzog while filming Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) almost turned deadly. Herzog pulled a gun on the reluctant actor after he threatened to leave the film, vowing to kill Kinski and then himself if he tried to walk away. In 1982, when the two had to work together again during production for the movie Fitzcarraldo, Herzog attempted to murder Kinski by setting fire to a house in which he slept.
Tony Curtis
Tony had an affair with Marilyn Monroe during the making of Some Like It Hot in 1959. Despite that, he still managed to say that “kissing her was like kissing Hitler.” The comment was figurative. She drove him crazy by continually arriving late for filming and constantly flubbing her lines. To make matter worse, director Billy Wilder would always use her best takes while leaving Tony’s own best deliveries on the cutting room floor.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins regarded the boisterous Shirley MacLaine as overbearing and was constantly annoyed with her while filming A Change of Seasons in 1980. When asked what she was like, he said she was “the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with.”
Marlon Brando
Sophia Loren was without a doubt the embodiment of the Earth Mother-Sex Goddess who was cool and seductive while Marlon Brando was the edgy angry tiger of the silver screen. But when the two came together during the shooting of The Countess from Hong Kong in 1966, the fur certainly flew. A feud broke out after he asked her, right in the middle of shooting a love scene, “Did you know you have hairs up your nostrils?”
Christopher Plummer
After making The Sound of Music in 1965 with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer said that working with her was “like being hit over the head with a Valentine card.”
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26 Comments
Fun stuff. The old feuds are so much more interesting than todays.
Bren, you have outdone yourself! This is a wonderful and downright fascinating piece! Talk about gossip! Gees!
you have worked hard on this one good job.
really great job!
keep it up!
cheers,
denus
You have done your work so well that I was completely shock to learn about this film celebrity feuds. Excellent job, Bren.
I never knew! Thanks for lots of interesting information. Great writing!
Very interesting information. Well done.
LOl well they may be stars but they are not above human quarrels.
No everyone gets along. Movie stars are publicly known. Well done write my friend.
Fun and informative write, well done.
Another 5 stars. Cool read Bren!
Very nice.Like it!
very entertaining..
Interesting article.
Didn’t know any of these actors
Another interesting article as usual,my friend,Joan Crawford & Bette Davis feud was the only one I knew about.
This was a fun read. I enjoy Charlie Sheen’s antics because I wish I could do some of the things he’s gotten away with!
Its so funny how insecure great actors are….it seems that they are sometimes threatened by their own shadow.
Great article! I think the Herzog/Kinski personality clash is probably the winner, but somehow, they managed to make several movies together and Herzog created My Best Fiend, a film tribute to Kinski. Two powerful personalities who shouldn’t have worked together by any standards of sanity, but film lovers, including me, are eternally grateful that they did.
read “Celebrity Feuds” by Boze Hadleigh, it will give you lots more details on this kind of thing.
Another great read! So entertaining! LOVE the Bette Davis and Marlon Brando quotes the best!
you have ceated one of those articles that are not only well researched and written, but that it’s interesting to read the comments as well. Well done
those actors look like they were having a hard time.
Great job keep up the work
Thank you for the article and for giving me the opportunity to learn from you. You teach by your example. Love it!!!!!
Entertaining read.
I have never heard about this before. How interesting.
Thanks!
AC