Thursday Movie Picks #434: The actors didn't like each other

This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. We've made it through October, so it's time for some non-horror themes. I suppose you could consider this first theme for November mildly horrifying, however, as being on the set of such a movie might be difficult: movies in which the actors didn't get along.

I'm guessing that this is supposed to mean that the actors in real life didn't get along, as opposed to characters who didn't get along in the context of the movie's plot. So it's obvious to think of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, in which the two stars notoriously hated each other and which was the subject for the miniseries Feud from a few years back before Olivia de Havilland (a supporting character in the Davis/Crawford rivalry on the side of Bette) died. And, indeed, both Davis and Crawford show up today, although not in the same picture. Without further ado, then, here are the Hollywood hatefests:

The Old Maid (1939). Bette Davis plays cousin to Miriam Hopkins during the Civil War, and even gets knocked up out of wedlock by Hopkins' former fiancé, raising the kid in an orphanage until Hopkins learns the truth. Apparently Davis and Hopkins didn't get along, so that when Warner Bros. reteamed them in Old Acquaintance four years later, that final scene was more than just acting:

Rachel and the Stranger (1948). William Holden is a widowed pioneer who needs a woman for his son, so he buys the contract of indentured servant Loretta Young, going so far as to marry her. Holden's hunter friend, Robert Mitchum, shows up, and falls in love with Young, making things complicated. Young was famously Catholic, and set up a "swear jar" on the set with everybody making a contribution when they said a naughty word. Mitchum is the sort of person you'd expect to use a lot of coarse language, but was apparently surprisingly well-mannered on the shoot. That is, until the final day, when he dropped a $20 bill into the swear jar, saying "This is for all the things I *wanted* to say to Loretta!"

Johnny Guitar (1954). Joan Crawford plays a woman who owns a saloon in an isolated part of the old west, knowing the railroad is about to come through and her owning the land will make her wealthy. Mercedes McCambridge leads the ranchers and doesn't want people like Crawford flooding in, so she tries to force Crawford out. Crawford brings in hired gun (and former boyfriend) Sterling Hayden. Apparently Crawford and McCambridge hated each other, and Crawford and Hayden had a difficult time together, too.