14 Times Old Hollywood Men Were Literal Nightmares To Their Costars

Warning: This station mentions intersexual harassment and assault.

Male actors treating their pistillate costars poorly is sadly a communicative arsenic aged arsenic Tinseltown itself. In her effort "Wolves I Have Known," Marilyn Monroe wrote, "Girls successful each locomotion of beingness person to instrumentality large attraction that they don't find themselves conscionable different scalp connected immoderate man's belt. But successful Hollywood, we person to enactment overtime to outwit the wolves. That's due to the fact that wolves of each varieties travel from acold and adjacent to snare the Little Red Riding Hoods of the movies. Once you're reasonably good established arsenic a movie actress, it's unfastened play connected you."

Here are 14 times Old Hollywood men were literal nightmares to their pistillate costars:

1. Spencer Tracy allegedly sexually harassed Irene Dunne portion filming A Guy Named Joe. According to the publication Conversations with Classic Film Stars, she said, "He'd wanted Kate Hepburn for the portion of the pistillate flying ace, Dorinda. And [director] Vic Fleming had turned him down flat, saying she wasn't astatine each close for it. So erstwhile I showed up, Spence was rude, brusque, and adjacent made a walk astatine me." For context, Spencer had a astir three-decade matter with Katharine Hepburn.

She spoke to the director, but Spencer didn't amended his behavior. So, she reported it to workplace caput Louis B. Mayer, who personally visited the set. He watched Irene's performance, past said, "If I'm firing anybody, I'm firing Tracy, not her." Afterwards, helium acceptable Spencer straight, putting an extremity to the alleged harassment the histrion inflicted connected Irene.

2. On the sleeper bid thrust location from Mount Baker aft shooting Call of the Wild, Clark Gable allegedly day raped Loretta Young. However, she didn't recognize what had happened until decades later, erstwhile she heard the word "date rape" connected TV. After asking a person to explicate it, she said, "That's what happened betwixt Clark and me." Her daughter-in-law, Linda Lewis, told BuzzFeed News, "She was truthful humiliated, and what she would bash erstwhile she was humiliated was conscionable 'on with the show.' Because she had been trained since the property of 3, you enactment a bully look connected it, and you spell forward. She knew she'd person to proceed moving with him."

As rumors circulated that Clark (who was joined astatine the time) and Loretta had an affair, they finished filming their last scenes connected the backlot. Loretta recovered retired she was pregnant, but arsenic a devout Catholic, she didn't privation an abortion. So, her household helped her fell the pregnancy. After giving birth, she reportedly hid her daughter, chap histrion Judy Lewis, successful orphanages and with different caretakers for the archetypal 19 months of her life, lied astir adopting her, and surgically altered her ears erstwhile she was 7 to fell her existent parentage.

3. Jerry Lewis allegedly assaulted his The Disorderly Orderly costar Karen Sharpe aft calling her successful for a costume fitting. She told Vanity Fair that, erstwhile she tried connected her past costume, helium dismissed his guards and "started moving successful on" her. She said, "He grabbed me. He began to fondle me. He unzipped his pants. Quite frankly, I was dumbstruck. I enactment my manus up and said, 'Wait a minute. I don't cognize if this is simply a request for your starring ladies, but this is thing I don't do.' I could spot that helium was furious. I got the feeling that that ne'er truly happened to him."

Karen tried to cull his advances arsenic politely arsenic possible, going arsenic acold arsenic offering to driblet retired of the movie to forestall immoderate awkwardness. However, helium told her that, due to the fact that of the declaration she signed, she had to beryllium determination to movie successful 3 days. When she arrived connected set, a unit subordinate allegedly warned her that lone the manager and adjunct manager were permitted to talk with her, adding, "If anyone speaks to you…we'll beryllium fined I wanted to fto you know… But I can't adjacent talk to you." Even Jerry refused to admit her until the cameras were on, not adjacent for rehearsals. She said, "That happened done the full film. He ne'er worked with me. He ne'er spoke to me. The archetypal instrumentality of what we did unneurotic was what went connected film. And that was what everyone was going to see."

During Karen's past time connected set, Jerry yet spoke to her again. After she thanked him for her costumes and wage raise, helium said, "I honestly don't cognize however you came to enactment each day. You see, I'm sick." She replied, "Jerry, bullshit. Is that your excuse for atrocious behaviour — that you're sick, and radical are expected to excuse that? Well, I don't excuse that. It was the astir unprofessional starring man/leading woman narration I've ever had successful my 20 years arsenic an actor. Just deliberation however overmuch amended we could person been if you'd been nonrecreational and cooperated. You ever deliberation astir playing a dense — a existent lad of a bitch? Because you're truly bully astatine that. People wouldn't judge it, but we some cognize that's who you truly are."

She informed him that her fellow was waiting for her nearby, but it didn't deter him. She said, "He starts to speech soiled to me, and arsenic he's talking, the pants open, and the disfigured happening came out, and helium starts to jerk off. I was frightened… I conscionable sat there, and I wanted to permission truthful badly."

Her friends advised her to study him to SAG, but she was acrophobic of retribution. She said, "He was precise large astatine Paramount. I was nether declaration to him and to Paramount, and I didn't privation to shingle the boat. Y'know, I figured I'll conscionable support my rima shut."

5. Anna Maria Alberghetti alleged that, portion filming Cinderfella, Jerry Lewis would telephone meetings astatine the extremity of the day, past nonstop everyone other distant truthful helium could travel connected to her. She told Vanity Fair, "He tried precise hard. He came connected to maine constantly. I would accidental to him, 'Jerry, I'm seeing someone…. You've got the incorrect chick.' ... If this had been my archetypal interruption successful the business, I astir apt wouldn't person had a choice. There it is."

6. In her memoir 'Tis Herself, Maureen O'Hara alleged that Jimmy Stewart tried to get her fired from Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation implicit a mendacious rumor. The archetypal time connected set, they filmed a walk-by series together, but that night, idiosyncratic from the workplace dropped by to archer her, "I person to speech to you. It's precise serious, Maureen. Jimmy Stewart wants you disconnected the representation close away. ... Jimmy said that it was his knowing that you would yet effort to instrumentality implicit the representation and nonstop it."

He wasn't palmy successful getting her fired, but she was understandably upset nonetheless. She wrote, "I couldn't judge it. I had ne'er tried to nonstop a representation I was in, ever. I said, 'How the hellhole could helium perchance deliberation that? I hardly spoke to him the full day. I said, "Good morning, Mr. Stewart," and that was it. I did lone 1 walk-by!' ... I learned a fewer things astir moving with Jimmy Stewart connected Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation. I discovered that successful a Jimmy Stewart picture, each country revolves astir Jimmy Stewart. I was ne'er allowed to truly play retired a azygous country successful the picture."

7. In her memoir Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Sophia Loren recalled an alleged incidental with her A Countess from Hong Kong costar Marlon Brando. She wrote, "All of a sudden, helium enactment his hands connected me. I turned successful each tranquillity and blew his face, similar a feline stroked the incorrect mode and said, 'Don't you ever situation to bash that again. Never again!' As I pulverised him with my eyes, helium seemed small, defenceless, astir a unfortunate of his ain notoriety. He ne'er did it again, but it was precise hard moving with him aft that."

8. While filming Rebecca, Laurence Olivier reportedly ostracized Joan Fontaine due to the fact that helium was upset she landed the relation alternatively of his wife, Vivien Leigh. According to the BBC, Joan said, "I was treated alternatively arsenic though I had leprosy."

9. Charlie Chaplin allegedly verbally attacked his Limelight costar Claire Bloom to evoke the emotions helium wanted her to person successful a scene. She told the Telegraph, "Charlie was lone mean to maine once. We were rehearsing a precise affectional scene. He abruptly flared up and furiously attacked the mode I was playing the role. Of course, I was devastated and connected the verge of tears. ... Immediately they bundled maine onto the set, and we changeable the country successful 1 take. He'd planned the full thing!"

10. In the memoir Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, Sid Luft, Judy Garland's precocious ex-husband, alleged that immoderate of the men playing Munchkins successful The Wizard of Oz molested Judy, who was a teen astatine the time. He wrote, "They would marque Judy's beingness miserable connected acceptable by putting their hands nether her dress. … The men were 40 oregon much years old. They thought they could get distant with thing due to the fact that they were truthful small."

11. In her 2013 memoir Unsinkable, Debbie Reynolds wrote that her Singin' successful the Rain costar/director Gene Kelly was a "cruel taskmaster." She said, "He came to rehearsals and criticized everything I did and ne'er gave maine a connection of encouragement."

She besides alleged that helium made unwanted intersexual advances toward her during their archetypal buss scene, writing, "The camera closed in. Gene took maine tightly successful his arms...and shoved his lingua down my throat. 'Eeew! What was that?' I screeched, breaking escaped of his grasp and spitting. I ran astir frantic, yelling for immoderate Coca-Cola to cleanse my mouth. It was the aboriginal 1950s, and I was an guiltless kid who had ne'er been French-kissed. It felt similar an assault. I was stunned that this 39-year-old antheral would bash this to me."

12. In Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast astatine Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson, Patricia Neal said, "I had done scenes with George [Peppard] astatine the Actors Studio. I had a precise bully time, and I adored him, but years later, erstwhile I got Breakfast astatine Tiffany's, thing happened. I was thrilled erstwhile I heard we were going to beryllium successful it together, but it wasn't agelong until I saw that, since I past saw him, helium had grown truthful acold and conceited. On 1 occasion, Blake [Edwards, the director] and George astir had a fistfight. We were trying to artifact a scene, and George wanted to alteration everything that Blake had planned, and George got truthful unspeakable that Blake astir deed him. I got them to stop, but I deliberation George got his way. I hated him from that infinitesimal on."

13. George Peppard was besides allegedly unkind to Audrey Hepburn. Producer Richard Shepherd said, "I indispensable say, determination wasn't a quality being that Audrey Hepburn didn't person a benignant connection for, but George Peppard. She didn't similar him astatine all. She thought helium was pompous. When she wasn't around, helium referred to her arsenic 'The Happy Nun.'"

14. And finally, The Birds manager Alfred Hitchcock allegedly threatened Tippi Hedren's acting vocation erstwhile she rejected his intersexual advances. She told Variety, "When helium told maine that helium would ruin me, I conscionable told him [to] bash what helium had to do. I went retired of the doorway and slammed it truthful hard that I looked backmost to spot if it was inactive connected its hinges."

He was purportedly jealous anytime she talked to different antheral connected set. He allegedly lunged astatine her successful an effort to buss her successful a limo, and, portion shooting Marnie, helium allegedly described his fantasies to her and requested her to interaction him. She said, "It was perfectly awful, and arsenic soon arsenic the movie Marnie was over, I was retired of there. That was the extremity of the Hitchcock relationship. I finished the movie and didn't person immoderate different contact."

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has experienced intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), which routes the caller to their nearest intersexual battle work provider. You tin besides hunt for your section center here.

StopBullying.gov is an enactment that provides resources to forestall harassment and bullying against children. Stomp Out Bullying offers a escaped and confidential chat enactment here.

The National Alliance connected Mental Illness helpline is 1-800-950-6264 (NAMI) and provides accusation and referral services; GoodTherapy.org is an relation of intelligence wellness professionals from much than 25 countries who enactment efforts to trim harm successful therapy.