Phony tough guy meets real life tough guys.

This permanently A list immediately recognizable Oscar winning actor was not a good person. He was a bully, a blowhard, and a racist. He was also a coward who dodged military service in World War II. In the early 1960’s, he received his comeuppance while working on a movie with this also recognizable Oscar winning actor who's war record in the Pacific theatre is the stuff of legend.

She acted as her pimp

Old Hollywood Blind: In the annals of horrible stage moms, the foreign-born mother to this then almost A-list child and teen star who later made the transition to A+ list leading lady is among the worst. She acted as her pimp, accompanying her from casting couch to casting couch to sleep with men as old as the father of the actress. Two famous A+ list Oscar winning/nominees were among her sex partners.