The classic "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's almost didn't make the cut because a Paramount film executive thought the song was stupid and its inclusion in the film was pointless and wished to have it removed at the post-production meeting of the film but luckily, Audrey Hepburn was also present in the meeting and immediately said "Over my dead body!"
The now iconic track went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy for Record and Song of the Year (Andy William's version).
I do know that Bette Davis wasn't fond of Marilyn at all. They worked along side one another in All About Eve (good movie, by the way.)
Bette was cold towards Marilyn and barely talked to her on set. Apparently Bette didn't take Marilyn seriously as an actor and saw her as nothing more than just a pretty face with mediocre acting skills.
Gawd! I love me some old Hollywood! One story I recall hearing is that Errol Flynn, a film heartthrob in the 1930s, had a massive "member" and would use it to play the piano at Hollywood dinner parties! Hahaha
Mae West had an affair with her own son.
“Mae's son, who only knew her as a distant cousin he saw in the movies, showed up on her doorstep in Hollywood one day asking her to help him get a job. She knew right away who the handsome young man was, but said nothing. Neither did the handful of others who knew the secret.
Since she was between bodybuilders at the time, she kept him on, and eventually Mae's flirting led to a sexual encounter between them. Then another; And another. That continued for about six months, several times a week. Eventually conscience finally got the better of her; Mae set the young man up with an extra from one of her films.”
“This is Judy Garland, Judy ****ing Garland. You bitch! You took what was rightfully mine. [Garland was also nominated for “Best Actress” for her work in A Star Is Born, and favored to win.] Tonight was my last chance for the Oscar. You’ll have many more chances in your future. This was it for me. I’ll never forgive you.” Or in other words, “What don’t you ****ing understand? You and me are done professionally.”
Gawd! I love me some old Hollywood! One story I recall hearing is that Errol Flynn, a film heartthrob in the 1930s, had a massive "member" and would use it to play the piano at Hollywood dinner parties! Hahaha
Let me go build a time machine to go meet him for about an hour or two
Marilyn Monroe was first cast as Holly Golighty for the film version of Breakfast at Tiffany's due to the novella's author Truman Capote's admiration for her but Marilyn's agent thought the idea of Marilyn playing a call girl on screen was not good for her image so she talked Marilyn out of it and the role would went on to be Audrey's.
Audrey also wasn't sure on taking the role at that time but the director, Blake Edwards encouraged her to do it.
Not sure how true this is, but, it's been rumored that Frank Sinatra was racist and the only black person he tolerated was Sammy Davis Jr.
He was close with Billie tho:
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Frank Sinatra didn’t cry for friends Humphrey Bogart or Joe Kennedy but he cried for Billie Holiday.
Sinatra visited Holiday on her deathbed in a run down New York facility, ‘Harlem Metropolitan Hospital.’
Holiday was dying of cirrhosis and she was dying from heroin. The New York police had raided her room and found heroin in her pocket.
The attitude of the hospital was, ‘how can we cure this patient if she’s still shooting up?’
Three cops were stationed outside of her hospital door. A beautician was inside during her hair and nails and she was smoking outside of her oxygen tent and begging the nurse to get her a beer. She’d say catchy things like “Don’t trust that bitch. She can take the gold out of your teeth while you’re chewing gum.”
Holiday’s spirit was feisty but her body was defeated. Her once plump frame was wasted away. She was skin and bones. The hard life that made her music so great and true had literally eaten her alive. All the liquor had rotted out her insides.
She was thrilled to see Frank Sinatra. He told her how much he loved her recent album “Lady In Satin,” and he tried to get her to talk about future projects.
He told her, “I owe you so much for teaching me how to phrase when I was starting out with Harry James.”
Holiday replied, “I may have showed you how to bend a note, Frankie, that’s all.” She then leaned over and whispered, “Will you cut the **** baby and get me some dope?”
‘Lady Day’ begged Sinatra to get her a fix of heroin. Later that day, Holiday’s liver failed and she went into a coma and died.
Sinatra locked himself in his penthouse and wept for two days, playing her songs and drinking and crying. I had never seen him hurt so much, not even for ex-wife Ava Gardner.
Not sure how authentic is this but it was reported that Audrey Hepburn threw a jab at Mia Farrow after announcing her retirement/break from film:
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After retiring from film she married second husband Andrea Dotti and announced, "Now Mia Farrow can get my parts." Perhaps she meant it as a way of passing the baton over to another doe-eyed actress, but there is a certain edge to the comment, considering that after divorcing Mel, Hepburn "emerged with a hairdo even short than Mia's!"
lol, and I've read about Grace Kelly sleeping with many, many men, but I didn't know she slept with her bridesmaid's husband. Given what I've read about her I can't say I'm too surprised.
I can't help but to wonder if some of those women felt it was karma when she was killed in a car crash.
