Extraordinary Quote by Ryan Murphy

“There were giants striding the screen in the 1930s and ’40s: four actresses so talented, hardworking and versatile that they became laws unto themselves.…

— Eve Golden

I mean, I see the old interviews with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, these characters clawed their way up - what stories.

— Alan Carr

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars,…

— Robert Osborne

I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience.…

— James Woods

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The…

— Gena Rowlands

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but…

— Rodney Crowell

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it…

— Michael Korda

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

— Nicholas Ray

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she…

— Gena Rowlands

“Through the early 1930s, Barbara Stanwyck established her reputation in a field overflowing with other young Broadway starlets: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn,…

— Eve Golden

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

— Charlize Theron

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay…

— Joan Crawford