Their jerkiness and clownish behavior really stems from their life off the screen. What they did to sons, daughters, wives, brothers, sisters, friends, ex-lovers, and antics on set that undermined fellow performers........Do you agree, or are these beloved stars too much ancient history to be relevant anymore? Here are the winners:
Charlie Chaplin....Milton Berle....Zsa Zsa Gabor....Joan Crawford....Mickey Rooney.....John Wayne.....Errol Flynn...Gene Kelly.....Bette Davis.....Bing Crosby...
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 10, 2023 3:56 PM |
Walter Brennan. Hardcore John Bircher.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 8, 2023 1:40 AM |
Ditto Wendel Corey
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 8, 2023 1:48 AM |
Danny Kaye, regrettably
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 8, 2023 1:53 AM |
I don't recall any of Joan Crawford's producers, directors, or co-stars having any complaints about her until the early 50s maybe. Until then I think her reputation was as a reliable professional.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 8, 2023 2:08 AM |
Gene Wilder was a jerk, according to Teri Garr
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 8, 2023 2:11 AM |
I happen to like clowns and resent referencing shitty people from Hollywood bygone days as clowns.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 8, 2023 2:12 AM |
Clint Eastwood
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 8, 2023 3:08 AM |
Lucille Ball
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 8, 2023 3:16 AM |
Bette Midler
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 8, 2023 3:18 AM |
Dustin Hoffman
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 8, 2023 3:20 AM |
Barbra
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 8, 2023 3:22 AM |
Jada Pinkett Smith
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 8, 2023 3:25 AM |
Billy Eichner
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 8, 2023 3:26 AM |
I've been listening to Gilbert Gottfried's podcast and a couple of names that pop up when they talk about jerks are Danny Kaye, mentioned above and comedian Jack Carter who hated everybody. Kaye was known to pay attention to who got bigger laughs than he did during rehearsals of skits and then would step on those lines during the actual show.
And Cesar Romero used to pay rent boys to throw orange slices at his naked ass.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 8, 2023 3:28 AM |
People's personalities--especially in the Arts--are not cafeterias in which you can pick and choose, taking this and leaving aside that. If they hadn't had what people disliked in them, they also wouldn't have had what people liked in them. Sure, there are nice people who are nice in all ways and talented to boot; but their personal "mechanism" has nothing to do with the personal mechanism of others.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 8, 2023 3:31 AM |
R16 You tried
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 8, 2023 3:32 AM |
[quote]Zsa Zsa Gabor
How DARE you! I vill SLAP every vasy person who put me on dis list!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 8, 2023 3:36 AM |
[quote]And Cesar Romero used to pay rent boys to throw orange slices at his naked ass.
You say that like it's unusual.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 8, 2023 3:37 AM |
This is why the DL is going downhill
“New Poll Says”
Where? What poll? You just listed a random group of people chosen by yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 8, 2023 3:41 AM |
See this is what I hate about the posters left on this site
They cannot just say “These people from Hollywood’s past were big jerks”
They have to parse it like there is actually a poll that was taken! They invented a poll!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 8, 2023 3:45 AM |
Zsa Zsas only child lived in her car before she died. Why?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 8, 2023 4:06 AM |
Julianne Moore. Seriously.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 8, 2023 4:33 AM |
Barbra is not a jerk.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 8, 2023 4:46 AM |
No one cares.
The sadistic-pedo clown era is OVER.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 8, 2023 4:56 AM |
Debra Winger, beloved by none.
Pierce Brosnan is apparently a huge pain in the ass. I hadn't heard but when I was working at a film premiere afterparty the PR company for the stdio told me to assign a very attentive thick-skinned waiter to fawn all over his table while they rolled their eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 8, 2023 5:00 AM |
Mandy Patinkin
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 8, 2023 5:03 AM |
Tim Curry
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 8, 2023 5:08 AM |
Frank Sinatra
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 8, 2023 5:13 AM |
R16 can take their dimestore attempt at Jungian wisdom and fuck right off.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 8, 2023 5:15 AM |
Lol r1 ,truly
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 8, 2023 5:18 AM |
After Snoopy had a hit with Snoopy Come Home he became a major prick. Also the gay teletubby- dreadful & mean. Something like that OP?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 8, 2023 5:32 AM |
Gene Hackman was notorious for arguing with his directors.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 8, 2023 6:08 AM |
R29 What did Tim Curry do to Hank Azaria?!?!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 8, 2023 7:25 AM |
Marlon Brando
Everyone in the rat pack
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 8, 2023 9:21 AM |
If we're including directors - David O. Russell
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 8, 2023 9:43 AM |
Hollywood's Past
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 8, 2023 9:56 AM |
[Quote] Barbra is not a jerk.
How would you know?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 8, 2023 4:07 PM |
R6 Consider the source. The Terri Garr cunt story is DL legend. For that bitch to call someone an asshole probably just means he didn't kiss her ass to her satisfaction.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 8, 2023 4:13 PM |
Red Buttons
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 9, 2023 7:31 AM |
Andy Dick
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 9, 2023 7:49 AM |
Is this professional or personal jerkness?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 9, 2023 10:18 AM |
Did OP pull that list out of his fetid old ass? Because where is said poll? Certainly not at his link.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 9, 2023 10:24 AM |
Yeah, I’m interested in the Teri Garr cuntiness stories too.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 9, 2023 12:51 PM |
Lauren Bacall; I’m surprised she wasn’t mentioned.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 9, 2023 1:02 PM |
Chevy Chase and his elfin buddy Paul Simon are 2 of the biggest assholes I've ever encountered.
Jerry Lewis was a complete dick too but at least he's dead.
And as my dark horse, I give you Tom Bosley. Howard Cunningham was a nasty douche.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 9, 2023 1:25 PM |
Emmett Kelly is still celebrated in his hometown of Houston, Texas County, Missouri. Family has been there since the 1860s. We played in his eponymous park many times when growing up.
And there's an annual Emmett Kelly Clown Festival, and since 2004 the park has a nine-hole golf course, too!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 9, 2023 1:38 PM |
Seriously. Where is the list of jerks, from which OP is quoting. It is not at the link he provides.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 9, 2023 4:00 PM |
Shirley Maclaine
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 9, 2023 4:19 PM |
Spielberg.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 9, 2023 4:24 PM |
1960s actor Steve McQueen. Kept a suite at the Beverly Wiltshire to audition young actresses for parts in non-existent movies. He was also majorly drug addled, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he drugged the young women.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 9, 2023 6:53 PM |
Mel Gibson
Faye Dunaway, even though I love the bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 9, 2023 6:58 PM |
Here’s Teri Garr calling agent Wilder a jerk, around 3:30
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 9, 2023 7:00 PM |
Julie Podell......I will personally break every bone in your fuckin' body and stick your face down the toilet bowl if you don't quietly and silently leave the premises like a gentleman
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 10, 2023 1:09 AM |
Teri Garr could be a Walking Dead zombie without any makeup.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 10, 2023 1:28 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 10, 2023 1:32 AM |
I saw Teri interviewed about doing Friends. She said she was kidding when saying she had once worked with Spielberg and Scorsese and Coppola and now she was slumming doing Friends. However one got the sense that she wasn't kidding. She also laughed off the idea that Lisa Kudrow had stolen her shtick saying she had been advised to sue.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 10, 2023 5:41 AM |
R49
Which one are you?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 10, 2023 5:47 AM |
I would depressed as Teri if I had to talk to that moron Angela Bishop.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 10, 2023 5:48 AM |
Ashton Kutcher
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 10, 2023 1:38 PM |
Teri isn't a jerk, she's just sour.
Always was.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 10, 2023 2:09 PM |
Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 10, 2023 2:27 PM |
Bill Murray and Chevy Chase have pretty rancid reputations, but I've never heard anything bad about Dan Aykroyd. I've always liked him.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 10, 2023 3:54 PM |
Regis Philbin
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 10, 2023 3:56 PM |