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These legends are trying to play nice.
It’ll never last.
Credit: FX
(Mostly metaphorical, at least in episode 1.)
For nearly half a century they hated each other, and we loved them for it.
But feuds are never about hate.
Thats not hate, though, you see its pain!
Pain, as Marilyn flutters onstage and Joans sneer turns to choked-back tears.
(Try harder, Joan.)
So what does a fiftysomething girl have to do, anyway, to get a decent part?
She can start by plonking her Oscar statuette on her agents desk and demanding better scripts.
Two clues: Theres a Baby in the title, and a Jane.
Hes game, and Joan has a few casting ideas.
I need her to get the picture made, but I need you to make it great).
To the woman with the Bette Davis eyes.
Not that her yes is actually verbal, yet.
But hey, thats cool, shes easy!
She wants $1500 or she walks.
Still, they both seem to have extremely understanding men in their lives, because Hollywood is magic.
Then its off to Day One ofBaby Janeproduction.
Somehow, though, the dailies show its working; theres chemistry in that crazy.
Cut, print, and scene.
Until next week, babies.
Mamacita, on Joans unpaid gardeners
You have a very short goddamn memory, Bobby.
I still have em!
Ill show them to you.
Bette, to her ex
Cut back on the shoulder pads, and lose the lipstick.
Youre playing a recluse who hasnt seen the sun for 20 years, for Christs sakes.
Bette to Joan, on the first day of production
Welcome to the house that fear built.
Hedda Hopper, greeting her guests
