Joan Crawford: “Bob, we really need to talk.”
Robert Aldrich: “What is it now, Joan? Was the caviar on the craft services table not stellar enough?”
Joan: “Very funny. No, you need to talk to the people who are doing my hair. They aren’t listening to me.”
Robert: “It looks alright. Is it not big enough for you?”
Joan: “It’s too big. That wretch Bette Davis tried to store one of her Oscars up in there.”
Robert: “Ah, so you bring up Bette once again. Isn’t that the real issue? Bette?”
Joan: “Of course not. We are both professionals, or at least I am, and I’m having a swell time working with that horrid woman.”
Robert: “Such a swell time that you’ve called in sick almost every day this week?”
Joan: “Bob, that has nothing to do with Bette. I just have lingering medical issues from the last time that you directed Bette and me in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Robert: “And is one of those issues jealousy?”
Joan: “How absurd! I would never jeopardize this production over something so crass as holding a grudge over what that bit-”
Robert: “Oh, look, Olivia de Havilland has just driven up. If you’ll excuse me for a minute.”
Joan: “Olivia? She’s not in this movie…”
Robert: “She is now.”
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Crusty Pie 
There they go saying ‘swell’ again. As an aside, I interviewed Olivia de Havilland in 1974—charming and displaying a dash of her own issues with jealousy.
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Really? I’m already in awe of your life adventures, and now you reveal that you have chatted with international stars. My life is so mundane in comparison… 😉
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I worked for an entertainment magazine for about six months and usually got to meet the greats who came to town. This was Omaha in 1974 and rather off the beaten path for stars.
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