Suzanne Somers well publicized spat with Three’s Company producers (she was right but at the wrong time in history) because she wanted a piece of the syndication money. Jack and Janet were very pissed because she was also threatening their livelihood.
Cybill Shepard was treated like shit by DeNiro during the filming of Taxi Driver, but Jodie Foster he treated like a princess based on her talent. You’ll find evidence of Shepard having a diva-rep on her 70s movies sets in the book “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”.
Shannen Doherty has a justifiably horrible rep from her days at 90210 and later with Charmed. I’m sure you can find sources online.
Eliot Gould almost single-handedly ruined his own career after M.A.S.H. and he freely admits that he was nuts.
Eddie Murphy was quoted once as saying “John Landis has a better shot of working with Vic Morrow (who was dead by then) than with me.”
Edward Norton has a reputation for being quite demanding and a bit of a perfectionist. I can’t find documentation anymore but Ben Stiller alluded to this during the press junket rounds he was making when “Keeping The Faith” came out. See also “American History X” for more examples.
Debra Winger has a big reputation for being a diva.
The original True Grit had some interesting tension. Kim Darby was not the most popular young woman around. She spent almost all her time either with her boyfriend in her trailer or with her boyfriend not in a trailer still doing basically what she was doing in her trailer.
John Wayne got sick of Glen Campbell screwing up the shooting schedule, and after a hold up of about six weeks because Campbell refused to say “Son of a bitch” and other such picturesque language (because it would hurt his squeaky-clean image at the time), Wayne went into Campbell’s trailer, slammed the singer around for about 20 minutes and came out saying, “I think he’ll do the scene now.” He did.
I never watched the show, but I can remember the British tabloids constantly going on about the two leads in the show hating each other with a vicious passion. One was an inch taller than the other, so the shorter one wore thicker soled shoes to make them the same height, when the other found out, he wore similar shoes in order to make sure he was taller.
IIRC similar hatred was rife on the Dukes Of Hazzard.
The adult cynic in me is wondering how much of it was just a publicity stunt, but I’m pretty sure both shows were popular anyways, so …
And yet, apparently they loved him on Stargate Atlantis, so much so they brought him back two or three times.
On One Day At A Time, Bonnie Franklin was said to be really nasty to actors whom she thought were toppling her penstenal as the star of the show. One was actresss Mary Louise Wilson and other was Glenn Scarpelli. She was also said to have fought with representatives of Mackenzie Phillips over who got top billing in the credits for the show. She also threathed to leave the show after first 15 episodes if she was given more creative control over the show
Mackenzie Phillips was possibly, I think, not pleasant to work with aa a cast work due to her drug issues through I never heard anything negative by other cast members about her. Left in and out of the show for rehad till production staff fired her.
Bob Barker of Price is Right was said to be a pervert and (#$hole to the Barker Beauties and production staff. Several lawsuits were filed against him.
Anyone who is a panelist on The View.
List of feuds:
Some of the interesting ones from the list.
Fresh Prince of Bel Air: Will Smith vs. Janet Hurbert over her pregnacy and she was canned over it. Later the actor who played Clarton made a Youtube video against Hurbert when she was on the show. He said she was really nasty and her getting canned had nothing to do with her pregnancy
Betty White and Bea Arthur on Golden Girls-According to White, Arthur was basically bad at White for being “positive” and “happy” all the time. Rue (Blanche) McClanahan said that Arthur thought White was a c#$%.
It seems that White had issues with Estelle Getty (Sophia). White said that Getty had issues with death being written into the show and to be phobia-like about it. Don’t know if it lead to any fights or not. But Getty was said to be developing Alzheimer’s by the end of the series so it couldn’t be surprisng if Getty had death issues.
Patrick Dempsey vs. Isaiah Washington, Grey’s Anatomy- Dempsey was pissed that Washington outed and called fellow cast member, T.R. Knight, a f#$. A fist fight almost occured.
A profile of the show in TV Guide magazine mentioned that for his birthday, the cast got together and bought him something they always wanted to see him in: an electric chair.
The story is apparently true (I have the boxed special edition of all three seasons of the show + extras), with one additional detail: the credits were already being reshot and rerecorded, since that was the year they switched from B&W to color.
IIRC, he was hired as an “apprentice” player (like Garrett Morris) because he was a complete unknown, though he cracked people up when he auditioned. Doumanian had indeed already decided on hiring another “black guy” and agreed to take on Murphy with great reluctance. She evidently was so irritated at having been put in such a position that she deliberately kept him out of the spotlight as much as possible for as long as possible. He finally got to do one of his own bits on a night when the show was dying, and was a huge hit with the audience.
Casino Royale was the first Bond novel, not the first movie. The movie with Niven, Sellers, and Welles was a badly executed “spoof” that was filmed when 007 was at his peak of popularity (they couldn’t lure Connery away from EON Productions).
I know this is a late response, but Morris had an established performing career when he was hired by SNL in 1975. He had just appeared as a regular cast member on a sitcom, Roll Out, and had acted in five movies. He was also a theatre performer who had been in five Broadway shows so performing live was nothing new to him.
As I heard (read) the story, Garrett was hired as an “apprentice” writer but displayed little talent for it (O’Donoghue held one of his scripts between his thumb and forefinger as though it were radioactive and dropped it into a wastebasket). Michaels, who hated to fire anyone, simply “promoted” him to a performer instead. IIRC, few people on the show liked working with him, especially after the first few years when his drug abuse went out of control.
Uhhh, it’s a well-established fact that 1967’s Casino Royale is the only Bond film worth watching; thus, I have decreed that it’s forbidden to say bad things about this movie.
You’re new here, so I’m gonna go easy on you, and not make a federal case out of it. Just try to remember to be more respectful in the future.
I’m quite surprised to hear there was any bad feeling between Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. I remember in one interview not long before she died, Ball said she was a joy to work with (they stayed together for two of Ball’s post-Desi sitcoms) and she wouldn’t consider doing another series now that “her Viv” was no longer alive.
In re George Raft: Edward G. Robinson was originally cast to play Mafia don Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot, but refused when he found out he’d be working with Raft. The two had apparently despised each other since the 1930s. The role went to Nehemiah Persoff instead.
Julie McCullough was the girlfriend on “Growing Pains” who was fired for appearing in Playboy (Miss February 1986). Sooooooooo yummy!
It was in the episode hosted by Walter Matthau. Matthau had been asked what musical guest he’d like to have on. He told them he listened almost exclusively to classical music, and asked if they could do something by Mozart.
So, Garrett got to sing a Mozart aria, and he did a great job.
After it was over, Matthau gave him a huge hand, then told the audience, “We’ll be back with the usual crap in a few minutes.”
The real problem was Vance who wouldn’t have had an acting career of note without Lucy. But she suffered from depression and was disgruntled with her position on the original show (among other things she hated William Frawley). The two women seemed to have liked each other enough in the follow on Lucy shows. Lucy was all business and I doubt she ever had a real problem with Vance who had helped her succeed.
I’ve read that while several people on the show had drug problems in the early years, the consensus was that Morris and Laraine Newman were the worst off and they, not Belushi, were the ones people expected to die.
Well, yeah. . . no. . . kinda. There was an American “Casino Royale” in the 1950s made for television, with James Bond as an American agent, and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.
