A good friend of mine, Laura, waited tables at the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, when she was a young woman. One of her favorite customers was Jack Benny. Anytime he came in, he would ask for Laura to serve him and his guests. He would always leave a $100.00 tip, a lot of money 85 years ago.
I think Benny was a class act all the way around, from what I hear. And his show was hilarious (it's shown on antenna tv here and stands the test of time).
Can confirm. He was known in Marin County restaurants as a very generous customer who never gave servers attitude and tipped at least 100% of the bill total.
What surprises me is that people are shocked to find out that the people we see on the screen are not the same in real life. Entertainers are paid to present an image that isn't real.
That’s why I limit my expectations of anybody. If you think about it, for most of us, our images are laced with deception. I learn more about my family and acquaintances AFTER they die. It’s amazing what you find out. 😁
My thoughts exactly especially with Sellers. Being eccentric, a cad and hard to work with doesn't make you evil. I'm not a weak minded celebrity worshiper but I love Sellers and he is a comedic genius.
A lot of actors, myself included, have some form of ADHD. Writers, too. We have creative ideas that seem to fire in many directions at once,and while it’s awesome in brainstorming sessions, especially when collaborating with each other, we can be boring or irritating af to people. Not always, but we can be absolutely EXHAUSTING to people unaccustomed to an actor or writer who is in that creative mode. Sometimes you have to learn, or relearn, to just get the grocery shopping done without doing it as some character you’re working up! We can exhaust even ourselves with it! I have 50 years of experience acting onstage in front of audiences large and small. Getting up in front of 200 or 2000 people seems easy to me, unless I’m onstage as ME. It’s one thing to be onstage portraying someone else. Quite another being up there as boring ol’ Castiels Granny!
What irritates me due to my having hearing aids - I can't even read those stupid subtitles that are so screwed up which they don't spell out things correctly. I usually have to find another movie or subject that can "correctly" do the subtitled so I can read them. Please learn to "WRITE" English so those wanting to read can understand what you are trying to say.
My mom was a waitress in an upscale restaurant in Lambertville, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from New Hope, PA, where there was an off-Broadway playhouse. Many stars would come to this restaurant because it also had a classic piano bar and dance floor. She met many famous people in the time she worked there. She said that Peter Sellers was indeed a "complete nobody," who had literally no personality when he wasn't in character. He would eat in character, dance in character and order her around in character, for which he tipped her $50 (a fraction of his dinner bill). She said that he reminded her of Laurence Olivier, who was also a cad and had no personality unless he put one of his characters on, "like a coat." She'd said. Her favorite guests were Burt Reynolds and his girlfriend at the time, Dinah Shore. They would come in and sit closely, with eyes only for each other. She said that they were wonderful people who always tipped her at least 50% of their bill to her, because my mom was the best at leaving people alone and not letting her guests be disturbed by 'outside entities!' (Which in sure everyone appreciated!) Just lost her a year ago. Love you mom. *_Note:_* I believe that I owe the commenters an explanation of a couple of things I said in my post. Please remember that what I have said _is_ heresay. My mom died last year and I am working from memory. I am sorry for the confusion it caused. In no way did I say or imply that my mom didn't like her patrons. She said that it was the most fun she ever had as a waitress. Just because she told me about the odd quirks of certain people did not mean that she was being rude about them or that she did not appreciate all the things she received from them (she also got tipped with flowers a few times!) I should probably have said that she thought that Peter Sellers was very funny when he _was_ in character and that she was simply amazed at what a remarkable transformation he would go through when he would get into one. One minute, he's reading in the corner of the bar, and the next, he'd be super charming and delightful. She said that it was like someone turned on a light switch. I had no intention of sparking a debate about my mom claiming when or why famous people are who they are or their reasons for doing so. She loved her job and what I relayed here was from 50+ years of snippets of conversations. If I misrepresentated anything, it was completely unintentional. I said in a later comment that my mom practiced 'pay it foward' before it was a 'thing,' back on the early 70's. She started on bridges: she'd get into the toll lane (to New Jersey and back) for people without exact change and would pay her own toll and for the person behind her. She did this without fail and she was never in too much of a hurry that she didn't have time for this. When tolls became automated and digitised, she instead changed her tactics to involve drive throughs. She would always pay for her meal and the person's behind her. I remember being chased down by a guy who demand to know the reason why my mom did this and had a great deal of difficulty understanding that she did it because it was good for people to receive and it made her feel good to _give,_ which is as it should be. She was the most giving person I've ever known.
Sorry for your loss. Some moms are very special people. Mine was one of them as well. We lost her in 1992. She had a very colorful life. With the celebrities' on Miami Beach. Arthur Godfrey, Jackie Gleason and a lot more that made the rounds in South Florida in the 1950's and 60's. Even Myer Lansky, who hired her as executive housekeeper for his new hotel and casino in the Bahamas. We lived over there for 11 years.
Peter Sellers suffered from acute shyness and very bad mental health problems. He actually had severe Bi Polar and a psychosis. Which was only recognised at the end of his life. There has been many people with MH issues labelled "difficult" before the 1990's. That's one of the reasons Peter and Spike Milligan were friends-they had an understanding of each other.
So it's clear she rated the " nicer" actors by how much they tipped.She should have been grateful for Peter Seller's generous tips.Nothing worse than an ungrateful wench!!
@@jegsthewegsI really wouldn't even put Sellers on this list. Being a bit of a cad or hard to work with doesn't make you evil. Regardless, Sellers was a comedic genius and still a big fan.
How the hell are these the most evil actors? Narcissists,drunks,bad parents, cheating while married are all shitty but does it make them evil? Puff,Diddy, Sean whatever ya wanna call him is evil. Some of these were like …He wasn’t as friendly as the characters he portrayed. Big deal. Where’d Kevin Spacey,Danny Masterson and Bill Cosby at on this list?
Step 1 - Ask AI who are the 10 most evil actors in Hollywood History. Step 2 - Collect images of the actors, provided above. Step 3 - Ask AI to write and narrate a script for each of the above. Step 4 - Put it all together with a sinister backing track and upload it to RU-vid. Give aways are easily caught, especially by the incorrect pronunciation of names and insincerity in the script. If this were done by a human, they would be interested enough to know how to pronounce names.
Adding to all of this, 48,000 people were attracted to this artificial "work." But there are RU-vid videos put together by real human beings, some with talent, other with varying or non-exiting talent. But they are there proving that people still have value.
Obviously you don't have a clue as to what evil means. These actors were rude, selfish, insensitive s.o.b's for certain; but, evil? I don't think so. Evil is cruel enough to rape and murder. Now, maybe, from what you have suggested, a couple of these actors may have raped young girls. If that is true, then yes, evil would be the correct word; but, evil doesn't describe all of them. If they raped and murdered, then evil would be the word to describe them; but. Just being rude, demanding and selfish doesn't make them evil.
I'm 5 minutes in, thanks for the heads-up. I knew this wasn't great when the waffle about Bing Crosby didn't mention the terrorising CHILD ABUSER that Gary Crosby documented and his siblings corroborated. Yipes.
Bing was a cruel man. He was so mean to his wife and children. I knew Mickey and he was not a cruel person! He was always kind, funny and easy to be around. He was mistreated the last few years of his life by his wife and a step son. They stole his money, physically hurt him and more. It broke my heart!! At that time he actually should have been mad at the world!
When I was writing for car & motorcycle magazines I did an interview with Peter Fonda. He described his father as "cold blooded" and blamed him for his mother taking her own life.😢
Did he say cold or cold blooded - big difference - heard that Fonda was emotionally cold in general - warmed up at the toward the later part of his life, both to his children and his life wife, who he was effusive about - Shirlee.
Gig Young - surprised me and it is a good thing Elizabeth Montgomery, divorced him as soon as his alcohol consumption became a problem. She's lucky she got out in time and divorced him. Don't know if he killed himself after he murdered his wife or was committed to prison? Let me know.
I knew he was bad news but as I started to read things about him having a child out of wedlock, he never confronted this girl. The sad truth he was so much involved with his 2nd wife I thought he would still be fair with his children, but he disappointed me when I learned he left his 60 million to the 2nd family and the first didn't get anything but hardship from Jerry. If I were the 2nd wife I would have distributed the money fairly at least half of $60 Million which is 30 Million for the first family which they deserved.
@@Wesley-eu7rn - I heard worse that women who were his staff would be manipulated by him to "service" that AH. I can't believe it when I heard this. It is bad enough he scared his kids each time he came home and his wife would tell the kids to beware he is on his way home. So they would scattered to their rooms and try not to bother this father who had little time for his wife and his six boys. He's despicable.
Some I am now questioning since I was a big fan of this particular super star and now I can't see myself being such a fan of hers anymore. Talks or portion written about her showed little regards to her neighbors when she was fixing up her place by way of construction and I felt she could have done something to avoid the complaints of her neighbors which caused traffic in her Connecticut streets by addressing a way to solve the neighbors that had problems of getting around their places. I felt it didn't matter to her at all which disturbs me since it caused a lot of traffic close to her neighbors. Meryl Streep is the so-called actress.
@@homegown1234 The only actor who never stood out negatively or never showed bad attitudes was and is: Keanu Reeves. When one knows how other actors behave, one only sees what BAD attitudes they have, but NOT more as actors.
This is a bizarre list. It certainly cheapens the word evil. But, beyond that, the kind of nasty behavior of Flynn and Crosby seem of a different nature from Welles just offering harsh assessments of certain actors. I can't even see why Welles is on the list.
Nasty, reprehensible, unlikeable, unpleasant, cruel, mean, nasty, etc. etc. But not "evil." That's a real clickbait-y headline. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, those're evil.
Actually, some of these evil doers were evil. I am not sure so much about Wallace Berry but then he was a bit of a thief compared to others he wasn't too bad which at least he never physically abuses anyone in the movie business.
I'm 49. For me Christopher Reeve is Superman, but Robin Hood is & will be Erroll Flynn. That movie is what, 92 years old? But it's imagery is still strong in the collective memory, I think.
I don't think you can criticize Rooney too harshly for playing a Chinese guy. The writers and director are the ones you should be mad at if you want to be mad. They wanted an Asian stereotype and he gave them an Asian stereotype.
That wasn't the point, Mickey Rooney for years was an abusive husband to Eva Gardner and Mickey took advantage of Elizabeth Taylor when she was just a child. That is something I don't condone. What he is "a pervert!"
This is the dumbest list ever. Apparently, Orson Welles is one of the most evil actors because he didn't like a number of people that were notorious for being awful people. A damning indictment if I ever heard one. Everybody knew Mickey Rooney was a giant A-hole, by the time he was in his thirties it was obvious what he was like in every interview he did. Henery Fonda was one of the most evil because he had a number of affairs, just like almost every other actor did, except apparently they were not evil. I wish they would ban this AI generated nonsense.
Mr Nice Guy was Jimmy Stewart who had an affair with his best friend's first wife - Maureen Sullivan. Actually I read so many hot actors had a thing for her? I did not think she was attractive or an outstanding actor.
@@blackraveninyourarea5682Didn't Keifer Sutherland was drug addict? I guess that's what he's referring to? I know he and his father (Donald Sutherland) have a strained relationship.
Jane Fonda already talked about how he wasn’t a good parent or husband but definitely not evil they even grew close has he aged. The title is salacious on this one.
@@jeanahill9303 OK that’s out of line crazy. Just because one doesn’t agree with a young’s persons (and she was young) politics doesn’t mean she can’t honestly talk about her childhood and relationship with her own dad. Let’s dial back a bit and look at her like she’s still human. When Henry was in his 90’s they were able to reconnect and repair there relationship before he passed. That is a beautiful thing.
She tore up a note that was handed to her by a starving POW! After she read it and laughed at them for asking for Help! I was young once but I was never that mean! You might forgive her for being young but I can’t.
I agree with you, but press nowadays will sweep anything negative about liberal Hollywood stars under the rug. I always enjoyed hearing how there were instances when she was in public about ex-Vietnam vets spitting on her. I didn’t blame them. I’m glad she’s in her 80’s and nearer to the grim reaper.
When I worked years ago at my Uncle's restaurant a waitress I knew there had regularly waited on Berle at a Florida hotel where he was performing. She told us about how arrogant and nasty he was and this was decades before Saturday Night Live or RU-vid lists.
I learned Milton Berle put the moves on Marilyn Monroe and so many other actors did. I don't know what her frame of mind was back then, but it didn't help her feel good about herself. One creep of a pimp which to this day I hate his guts - Peter Lawford was the creep that was pimping her to the Kennedys. What a horrible human being he was and I'm sure he is facing hlis maker now.
@@homegown1234 I think that Frank Sinatra (not exactly another Pa Walton himself) threw Peter Lawford out of the Rat Pack due to some misunderstanding between Frank and JFK. So, “Pe-tah” was banned from appearing in “Robin and the Seven Hoods” with Ol’ Blue Eyes and the rest of the Rat Pack.
@@kensellers4082 Might have because Jack Kennedy shunned him after Frank , who had been a big supporter during the campaign. Kennedy was told to keep his distance from Sinatra because of Frank's mob ties, and was a no show for a scheduled visit at Frank's house in Palm Springs after Frank put in a lot f of pricey additions including a helipad.
@@Snoopydad Yes, I heard that Frank Sinatra never dealt with JFK after that apparent snub. In fact, Frank Sinatra was said to be so furious that he personally took a sledgehammer to a helicopter landing pad on his estate he had built for JFK to land on in his presidential helicopter.
I had a friend who was a doorman at the Brown Palace in Denver. He told me Bob Hope is cheap and haughty. My sister worked at Stoffers in Detroit in the '70s. She met a lot of famous people but her favorite was Redd Foxx. She told me he was really friendly and gave her a nice tip. She was a maid and developmentally disabled. He probably picked up on that.
@@guaporeturns9472 Let’s just say that Ms. Grier was alluding to the gynecological “problems” she unfortunately experienced after her romantic relationship with the late Mr. Pryor.
I thought the same thing. Definitely a bit on the "click bait" side. People being arrogant jerks are not usually evil. Many of us know that celebrities whether actors or rock/pop stars can have big egos & can be arrogant & demanding. Murderers, rapists & even sociopaths who don't commit acts of violence can be evil in their own way. They are playing a role when we see them on TV, the movie screen or stage. Many have said Michael Landon was a major asshole in real life & his kids hated him. He was drunk most of the time as well. Throw in alcohol and other substance abuses and that can also turn a person into a mini monster who thinks everything is all about them, which many stars already do without the alcohol/drug abuse issue, throw that in the mix and they are usually worse. Paul Lynde was another one who was a miserable alcoholic. Shia LaBeouf is a real nasty jerk to people. Jack Cassidy was another miserable drunk who died in a fire he started while drunk. I am sure there are dozens more who fall into this category. Then throw in the rock/pop stars who are miserable alcoholics/drug addicts and the list probably goes up to over one hundred. I know this is a little different but I have a close personal friend I have known since the mid to late 1970s. Her first husband was the son of Grace Metalious so she was her mother-in-law for over a decade. Grace Metalious wrote the book Peyton Place which then turned into a movie & possibly a TV show(I may have that backwards, not 100% sure) She said Grace M was a miserable alcoholic and died broke and lonely. Her book was about life in a small town here in NH and somehow made it big nationally at that time. She said Grace had zero to do with her grandson & said her husband, Grace's son was a spoiled brat even though he had a horrible relationship with his mother. It was interesting to hear how fame infected their lives in a really negative way because before that book & the fame she was not that bad of a person. Many people put these unrealistic expectations on celebrities and think of them as their on screen/stage personas and can be very disappointed at times if they happen to meet them in real life. Plenty are nice to their fans as well so not every one of them are arrogant jerks or assholes to everyone.
I realize this is about mean actors, but on the flip side my father did some landscape work for Richard Widmark who would greet him every day for the two weeks he worked for him with an ice cold beer and big cheerful "Buenas dias amigo, would you like a cervesa?" my dad had nothing but good things to say about him. Likewise my mother worked for several years at the Riviera country club where she became friends with Peter Falk who was so down to earth he would even seek her out to chat with. She said he was very funny and they would often joke with one another. I remember she cried when she heard on the news that he had died.
I appreciate some of the info, but I can’t really get behind this list. There are actors that straight up raped, murdered and abused people. I think that that’s just a bit more horrible than Henry Fonda sleeping around. Also, you left out the part about Bing Crosby abusing his children
He broke the blacklist by hiring Dalton Trumbo to write Spartacus. Both father and son had reputations of supporting and paying the screenwriters well. Although I disagree with the term "witch hunt" which is always used in describing McCarthy Era. There are no such thing as witches. There were however, many open Communists in Hollywood advocating overthrow of the government. These writers were not "persecuted" as you say. They spoke unpopular opinions and had to deal with the consequences when people didn't want to patronize their movies. They've been whining about this for 70+ years.
Gig Young was so brutal he went home and shot to death his wife, his doctor had delivered the bad news he had the big "C". So ever considerate Gig decided if I have to die so does she! IMO that is a good definition of Evil!
It is a good thing that Elizabeth Montgomery divorced him or he would have killed her during one of those drunken fights. He would have been the wife he would have killed since being an alcoholic he couldn't get his act together.
The Kirk, Douglas/Natalie, Wood incident was not alleged. there are many stories online about this Natalie spent a couple days in the hospital due to whatever Kirk Douglas did to her. She was only 15. Natalie‘s mother would not press charges because she thought it would hurt Natalie’s career ..I cannot watch any movie with Kirk Douglas in it ever again once I heard that.. as for the rest of the actors being human, and having emotions and not so private lives, did you want normal average people in the movies. I have no doubt that a lot of these stories were dreamed up by the publicity departments of the studios and tabloids. William Randolph Hearst type of reporting in the newspapers, sells best. If there’s no story there, go out and create a story.. if the headlines are big enough, the story is big enough..
As one who knows, who had the misfortune of working on his show when I was just 19, I’m always amazed that the nasty, totally mean Danny Kaye doesn’t head the list. I was thrilled when Harvey Korman, who got his start on the Kaye show and was a prime target of his evil, left to go across the hall at CBS TV to the Queen of Fabulous People, onscreen and off, Carol Burnett. Harvey was blessed to shine there. I do not miss this a**hole for one second.
I learned that Carol Burnett said she told him he shouldn't come back if he doesn't improve his attitude. When he came back the following week - he got his act together and never behave like an asshole again.
I can back up what you have said about Danny Kaye, When I was a teenager age 16, I saw him in an airport. I had always been a fan. I walked up to him. He was standing by himself so I did not interrupt a conversation. All I said to him was, "thank you for making all of the fun movies, I am a fan. I did not ask him for an autograph, I asked him for nothing and just wanted to than him for his work. I did not try to start any further chat. He glared at me with such a condescending expression, then without saying a word and turned his back to me and walked away. What kind of person does something so rude to someone who complimented and thanked them? The complete opposite in personality who I had met in NYC in a music store was....Dick Van Dyke. He is everything you would expect him to be...kind, funny and friendly. I have met many famous people and all have been very pleasant ..... except for Danny Kaye. He was an a**hole.
@@mte4506 I had a virtual identical experience with an actress, not nearly as well known as Danny Kaye, Kyra Sedgwick. I was waiting on the subway train platform on 66th St in Manhattan and recognized her. Coincidentally, I had just seen "Born on the Fourth of July" the night before and complimented her on her performance. I didn't ask for a selfie or an autograph. I was dressed in a suit and tie. She looked at me like I was dirt and turned away without a word. My sister in law, who follows all this Hollywood BS, said her reputation is that she doesn't talk to anyone. On the set she will sit apart from everyone else having nothing to do with them. So I guess it wasn't me.
I'm not seeing how Orsen Wells is evil, just because he had negative opinions on a few Hollywood people over the years. That sounds perfectly normal to me.
I never considered Henry Fonda to be warm and fuzzy, but learning that he and Lucille Ball had an intense thing going years and years before made their acting together in "Yours, Mine, and Ours" more sweetly sentimental, because they worked so well together then... Thanks for posting! 👍
Both Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart were roommates in NYC at the same time Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball were roommates then too. Fonda told very funny story about a night they double dated on the Dean Martin Roast of Lucille Ball - both of them were present as well as Ginger Rogers - it was a very funny story, an unflattering one of Lucille's and Ginger's makeup. They all laughed.
I don't think Henry Fonda was evil. Both Jane and Peter loved their father - and at the end were able to get closer to him. He was withdrawn emotionally and found it hard to be emotionally expressive. He, like so many of Hollywood stars, both men and women, weren't too faithful to their spouses. His first wife, for example, Maureen Sullivan, who I think he was faithful to, had a relationship with his best friend, Jimmy Stewart, when they were married. Says a lot about Sullivan and Jimmy Stewart.
Bette Davis would have walked up to this guy and knocked his ass into the middle of next week! One of the all time greatest actress's who ever lived! Made Jack Warner millions of dollars and can't pronounce her name!! Dear Bette is spinning in her grave and demanding a light for her lucky strikes! Who remembers those famous smokes of yesteryear?
I actually saw an interview with her once in which she was asked if she preferred Bet or Betty and she said either one. In some countries they do pronounce it Bet. Sounds weird, I know.
When The Addams Family (1994)came out, someone (I don’t remember who) said in an interview that the makeup and costume staff nicknamed the wig Anjelica Huston wore as “Faye Dunaway” due to the difficulty of working with it.
Does almost beheading your former wife with your children sleeping upstairs along with brutally knifing to death a guy returning glasses from the restaurant meet the criteria of the word "Evil"?
Never meet your hero’s. Most actors become spoiled brats after they reach a level of success that tells them they are of a god like status. This is what happens to people when they end up believing their own bullshit. Some get away with it until their last day on earth. 🤧🙄
Don't look at them as hero's, some are actually good people, but the ego , entitlement and other baggage they bring would not and should not be tolerated. Just read about the making of the Blues Brothers movie, belushi, was not evil, but was unreliable and cruel.
@@RickW-HGWT That being said, reading about people only shows you what the author’s opinion. Humans are capable of anything. Organic life forms will do some evil shit to each other for no good reason. It’s what we do. It’s expected. Nothing surprises me anymore. Business as usual.
there is no manual to handle fame or stardom, it takes a strong well grounded person to handle this if it happens to you, years ago I spent a yr. training to be an actor, at the low level I was at, I saw many disturbed people in the biz, I gave up and became a libn. much happier life
Jerry Lewis, Jack Cassidy, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Gig Young, And Griffith, Joan Crawford, Marlon Brando, Russell Crowe, Mike Myers, Steven 😂, Edward Norton, Dustin Hoffman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Stone, Charlie Scheen, Christian Bale, Shia LaBeouf…just to name a few that have reps for being difficult and downright mean.
The story about John Wayne attacking Sacheen Littlefeather is a complete lie. There have never been any eyewitnesses come forward to substantiate her accusations. After she died, her siblings came forward and revealed that for many decades, their sister was living a lie. She was not one bit Native American. 16:55
For all of Mr. Fonda's faults, there is something that wasn't disclosed. When Jane was very young, her father told her that his father (her paternal grandfather) forced a young Henry to watch the lynching of an African American man. This was a watershed moment for both of them, father and daughter. With this revelation, over time Jane understood her father's insecurities and anti-communal behavior. Young Henry looked up to his father, but after the murder never respected him again. In fact, with each passing year, he learned to despise his father, which in turn affected his own parenting skills when he would have children later in life. The subject came up during the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, and Jane had said a racist word she had picked up at school. Her father scolded her related the horror that he witnessed, and instructed her all people are the same. In effect, Mr. Fonda suffered from childhood trauma [PTSD] for most of his life. If he could impart any fatherly advice to his daughter, it was not to judge or hate, unlike many of his contemporaries. Ms. Fonda revealed this not too long ago. It had been their "secret lesson" between father and daughter for decades. In retrospect, his belief in civil rights was evident. While many of his fellow actors were outspoken about being anti-rights under a cloud of being anti-communist, he and others, like Charleston Heston, Clark Gable, Bogart/Becall, Monroe, and Robert Ryan, worked in front and behind the scenes, fighting for equality and never seeking credit.
I had a different take about Fonda's father taking him to see a lynching - it was to educate him on the evils of this behavior - not the reverse. Henry was stunned and forever after was a pro civil rights advocate. Maybe it was too difficult as a lesson, I don't know how old Henry was when the father took him to see the lynching. However, when I heard it - it was not a statement of complaint about his father, but his awareness of the horror that such things were happening.
I met both Henry and Jane in the '70s, and both were nice down to earth people. Unfortunately celebs instead get judged by the public for opinions they happen to say on the record at any given time, not who they are.
@@LJ-ht4zs That story is bizarre. Fonda's father took him to watch an actual lynching, but didn't do anything to stop it? Fonda grew up in Nebraska. Btwn 1882 and 1968 there were 57 lynchings in Nebraska, but only 5 were of black people. And Fonda and his father just happened to witness one of the 5 black lynchings in the history of Nebraska?!! I'm calling BS. And this explains Hanoi Jane allowing herself to be photographed like she was shooting at American pilots?
In the 1980s, I was the assistant to one of the biggest agents in Hollywood. We represented dozens of famous actors. You would be very disappointed if you got to know the real person behind the actor's mask in most cases. Funny enough, Donna Mills always played a villain, but she was a lovely, kind person off camera. Then there were those everyone idolized because of the roles they played. BIG MISTAKE!
Nobody knew who Peter Sellers actually was. Even Peter Sellers. There was never any 'there' there. He was Andy Kaufman 1.0. Also, Peter Sellers found Stanley Kubrick hard to work with, but Stanley Kubrick loved Peter Sellers.
Walken was aboard the yacht, and not only helped Robert get her in the down jacket but then lied to the cops and said he didn't hear or see them fighting.@@sarahpalmer411
My pick for this list was not mentioned. Cheetah the faithful chimpanzee in Tarzan movies was a handful. Olivia de Havilland said that he was a horny bastid.
Even peacenik commie Susan Sarandon slapped him on the set of Atlantic City. I met the son of one of the screenwriters for Sweet Smell of Success and he said Lancaster virtually single-handedly gave him an ulcer. The man who wrote "Bad News Bears" was Lancaster's son. The character of the nasty coach played by Walter Mattau was based on his father.
I suffered through the first 6:36 of this and see nothing "Evil". One can't stay faithful, one is mean to people, and one is an arrogant perfectionist. None of those are evil. I can't take that monotone voice anymore, even if I was interested in the rest.
RE: Orson Wells; To whom it may concern, WOW... what an Evil, Evil Man!!!! Can you just imagine what it would be like to have opinions behind closed doors with your friend, that you don't say outside or online??? What did his parents do to him to make him into such a monster????!! Gives me CHILLS!!!!!!!!!!
What has Susan Sarandon done? Except to be upset when she wasn't provided enough salary for her role. I do believe "Paul Newman" when he heard of what happened to her salary, was vocal and made sure that she got the salary that she earned in that role with him. Thank God, Paul Newman, was a sweetheart for sure. Another good man is Tom Hanks as well as one of my favorite star and icon is Keanu Reeves who was instrumental in making sure films with Gene Hackman and AL Pacino were given the appropriate amount of salary that they requested when he volunteered to give up a large portion of his salary to compensate those two actors. He is one of a kind guy that even helps strangers out when they need help or not able to take a van which Keanu purchased a van to get these folks from the airplane to their locations. He's help the homeless and even allowed this lady who hit his motor bike and didn't sue or anything. He told the police it was alright and let it go. There is something uniquely special about this man and I pray that he will be blessed for all his good deeds and work in Hollywood and all around town he visits.
Omg,, our sam is back ..glad to see you are feeling better..it takes a full year to come to terms with a loss.. but a word of wisdom from an old granny, there is no such thing as closure. There are just degrees of acceptance. Big hugs my dear and thank you so much for being you.
A person who I am glad I had the pleasure of meeting and is not on this list is Bob Hope. He was a genuinely nice and friendly person, a real gentleman and down to earth. I was fortunate to chat with him for a few minutes after a special event he was featured for.
Lana Wood (Natalie's sister) and her mother were in the car waiting for Natalie to come out of the hotel where she met Douglas. Natelie was bleeding and brusied, and informed the two that Douglas had brutally raped her. He lured her there on the pretense of audtioning for one of his films. Lana said her mother didn't go to the police for fear Douglas would destroy Natalie's career (she was a teenager at the time).
Hearing what happened with 15-year-old Natale Woods makes me feel even more sorry for her after learning the sketchy facts about her death. What a total cover-up!
@@EastSider48215 I was in the army from private to colonel and in the Mekong Delta when Jane Fonda was photographed in an air defense weapon in North Vietnam. She apologized for that. We were all misguided. I later met an advisor to Kennedy who said that the only reason for Vietnam was to get Kennedy re-elected. He was seen as "soft on Communism" because of Cuba and the Berlin wall. So they sought to move "the sphere of confrontation to the far east." I give her a break for being misguided because we were all misguided.
Jane Fonda, despite defending her, I believe she wasn't sure what she who she was defending. I questioned those males she was involved with and if they had a large impact on her disposition against the war. Remember there were plenty of people against the war and did things not always to benefit the good side of those we were defending.
Not a fan of Fonda-- I was army stateside during Vietnam-- but I am suspicious of some of the stories against her. I am more unforgiving against folk singer Joan Baez who said it was our moral duty to protest the war. Not that SHE would go to jail for it.
Allegedly, Sellers would wake up in the morning, take on a persona and be that person for a day. One of his ex-wives said, "The trouble with being married to Peter was you never knew who you were going to wake up next to." Cheers
Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovich Demsky. Many actors changed their names for marquee value back then, often on orders from the studio. There was a lot of blatant antisemitism years ago. Many Jewish actors changed their names to avoid being relegated to stereotype roles. In the 1930s, beautiful actress Sally Eilers never hid her Jewish identity. She never achieved the stardom she deserved, despite her undeniable talent.
Kirk Douglas knew that he was criticized of his Jewish background and those actresses that fuel his anger found him to be offensive with them. That I heard about but how he used his ways was not appropriately good. That to me was despicable. Marlon Brando was another sex horror when he did "The Last Tango" I learned the director told Marlon Brando not to tell the French Actress, Maria Schneider age 19, what he wanted Marlon to do. Marlon shocked and abused Maria Schneider sexually in that moment in the movie. I heard about it and was shocked and never again could see Marlon Brando except he was a "pig" and just as bad as Kirk Douglas. Maria Schneider died of cancer 2011. I don't think she did a lot of movies after that - who would- since the trust issue was broken for her. She should have sued their butts off.
I don't know if that was about being Jewish - so many of the Big Heads of Studios like Harry Cohn were all Jewish. They say if you had an "in" with someone high up, or if you got on the casting couch - more important than how well you acted. Women who were very strong and determined like Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Hara, Kate Hepburn - were tough and able to forge forward. A few others too - can't remember their names.
Theyre not evil, just eccentric. These people are brilliant. Could you stand in from of a camera crew and remember pages and pages of dialogue while conveying emotion?
I've studied showbiz for years, written several plays and scripts. But standing under hot lights while acting it all out for hours every day? I think I wouldn't last until the first time they called lunch.
