Blind Item

From Earl Wilson's column, February 4, 1966: "The feud on the picture, The Group, started when there were only two make-up women for eight stars. One young gal said, 'Let _______ go first, because she's the oldest and will take the longest time.' After that, it got worse."

Sincerely Yours

Monique Van Vooren: "You know, Mamie Van Doren is very pretty."

 

Friend: "You don't mean that!"

 

Monique Van Vooren: "No, I don't."

No Reservations

"She isn't red-faced with a hatchet nose like most American Indians...Maybe she is a Venezuelan Indian. You see, I don't know her very well." -- Maria Montez on Acquanetta

The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

"Get that two-bit whore outta here!" -- Jil Jarmyn doing her best Susan Hayward impersonation, upon catching Hayward in bed with her fiancé, Don "Red" Barry

Plays Well With Others

"Ava, I grew up in Brooklyn with Murder Incorporated as my playmates...Ava, you know I mean it." -- Shelley Winters confronting Ava Gardner over the latter's affair with her husband, Tony Franciosa

Cold As Ice

"When they invited me to the premiere, I sent off a 200 word telegram telling why I wouldn't attend -- and I sent it collect!" -- Carol Channing on losing the film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) to Marilyn Monroe

The Eternal Question

"Take away the pop-eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words and what have you got?" -- Joan Crawford on Bette Davis

That Was No Lady

"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies." -- Bette Davis on Joan Crawford

Losers, Weepers

"Darling, couldn't you have waited until next year?" -- Gloria Swanson to Judy Holliday after losing the Oscar

Strange Bedfellows

"I'll have a nicer dressing room than you, because, let's face it -- I'm the star of the picture." -- Elizabeth Montgomery to Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed (1963) co-star Carol Burnett*

* Reportedly said in jest!

All Of Me

"They come to see only parts of Ekberg, but all of Tucker!" -- Sophie Tucker on attracting more visitors to the Paramount lot than Anita Ekberg 

Try This On For Size

"Kim's gotten too big for her...britches." -- Barbara Nichols on Kim Novak

That Continental Touch

"I don't care what she does in her private life, but she shouldn't ridicule marriage and decency in public." -- Corinne Calvet on Zsa Zsa Gabor

You Take The High Road...

"There is no feud. I have never had a feud with anyone. But if I ever considered having a feud, it would be with one of the stars of the film." -- Dorothy Lamour on being "replaced" in the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope film, Road to Hong Kong (1962), by Joan Collins

If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say...

Starting tomorrow, Sunday the 15th, we will be turning into SSUWAT into an unmitigated dish-and-bitch fest, darlings! Our "dueling diva" quotation posts have always been audience favorites, so we've compiled some new goodies for you to savor, all for the next two weeks. Grab your poison pen and your favorite Hedda Hopper hat, and we'll see you there!

"Louella Parsons is a reporter trying to be a ham. Hedda Hopper is a ham trying to be a reporter." -- Hedda Hopper in her 1963 book, The Whole Truth And Nothing But