This Day In Hollywood Catfight History Presents: When Bette
Bludgeoned Joan  We take a moment now to honor the memory of the
two biggest bitches in Hollywood history—that would be Bette
Davis and Joan Crawford—whose man-swiping, lesbian-overture-
rebuffing, Oscar-campaign-sabotaging exploits provided the
behavioral template for generations of shock starlets to come.
Today's Daily Mail provides a highly engrossing and detailed
account of their lifelong rivalry, its poisonous roots stemming
of course over ownership of a man—in this case, actor Franchot
Tone. (He might not look like much, but trust us—this guy was
totally the Joel Madden of his day.) It all came to a head on
the set of the 1962 sleeper thriller that would offer both women
not only an unlikely comeback, but all the near-fatal accident-
rigging they could handle:  "Davis, the attacker in the movie,
was supposed only to simulate violence.But as she raised and
swung her right foot, encased in a black anklestrapped shoe, she
made contact with Crawford'