Bette vs. Joan

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford two of the biggest stars of Hollywood's classic era also had one of its most famous feuds while making the classic "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"--later slated to appear together in "Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte" after a couple of weeks on the set with Bette, Joan checked herself into the hospital and invented an excuse to get out of the picture.

The stories they loved to tell on one another.  For instance:
Bette: "In "Baby Jane" Joan was supposed to to be malnurished from not eating--with sunken cheeks and so forth, but Crawford insisted on wearing her falsies and each day while she was sitting on her back in that damn bed supposedly starving to death her tits got bigger day after day--I finally had to tell Aldrich (Bob Aldrich, the director) that from afar they looked like the swiss alps."

Joan: "I don't understand why Bette felt she had to wear that ghastly make-up on "Jane" without it she was frightening enough."

Yet between them they made some enduring classics:

Bette:

Dark Victory"
"Now Voyager"
"The Sisters"
"The Old Maid"
"Jezebel"
"The Petrified Forest"
"The Letter"
"The Little Foxes"
"All This and Heaven Too"
"The Corn is Green"
"All About Eve"

Joan:

"Humoresque"
"Mildred Pierce"
"Grand Hotel"
"Flamingo Road"
"Sudden Fear"
"Johnny Guitar"
"Susan and God"
"A Woman's Face"
"The Women"
"This Woman is Dangerous"

So who was "The Greatest Star"??

Yep, Joan was a big star, but Bette was bigger. Probably still battling, wherever they ended up.