BBC“She’s a phony, but I guess the public likes that…” This is the line that actress Joan Crawford is said to have declared about film star Bette Davis.
The back-and-forth sniping between the pair played out in the tabloids of the 1930s and 40s. “Bette is a survivor… She survived herself,” Crawford is also said to have remarked.
Their tempestuous relationship was so notorious that in 2017 it was made into an Emmy award-winning TV series, Feud.
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