7 Ways Actors Served Up Brutal Revenge

2. Joan Crawford Campaigned Against Her Co-Star's Oscar Hopes - What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

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The rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford is the stuff of legend.

Two of Hollywood's biggest ever stars, the pair completely and utterly despised each other. By the time the duo worked together on 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, this rivalry was entering its peak - and it culminated in something horrendously underhand, even by Hollywood's murky standards.

With both Davis and Crawford expecting to be nominated for the Best Actress gong at the 1963 Academy Awards, Joan Crawford was left fuming when it was only Davis who received such a nod. Having been rivals for 20 years by that point, Crawford set about exacting what she deemed fair revenge for her co-star being recognised for an award where she had not.

That revenge involved publicly campaigning against her What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? co-star being declared the Best Actress winner, with Crawford give her full support to Anne Bancroft to win that award. Not just that, but Crawford begged Bancroft to let her be the one to give an acceptance speech on Bancroft's behalf should she be the victor.

Indeed, Anne Bancroft was the winner of the 1963 Best Actress Oscar, and indeed Joan Crawford proudly accepted the award on Bancroft's behalf - all while rubbing it in the face of her long-term rival.

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