It's not for nothing that Robert Aldrich cribbed footage for Baby Jane Hudson's adult career in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? from Davis's pre-Code film, Ex-Lady and Parachute Jumper, both made after Three On a Match. In his defense, Davis was about ten or twelve films away from stardom at that point, with her roles in pre-Code films being almost entirely marginal. His conviction in this was so strong that he actively marginalized her part in their only film together, Three On a Match (1932). It makes director Mervyn LeRoy's opinion of Bette Davis look positively even-handed. Can dance a little." That's so breathtakingly off the rails you just have to hang your head and laugh. The most famous is probably the assessment of Fred Astaire after his first screen test at RKO: "Can't act. Hollywood history is filled with bad takes.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |