Who was the classic Hollywood actress best at playing bad? These are the girls you decided you'd never take home to mother:
  1. Bette Davis
  2. Barbara Stanwyck
  3. Gloria Grahame
  4. Joan Crawford
  5. (5-way tie) Joan Blondell, Claire Trevor Greta Garbo, Susan Hayward, and Jean Harlow

Write-ins: Gene Tierney and Ida Lupino. Apparently, none of you thought Marlene Dietrich was all that bad.

 You can still take the poll for another week or so. Thanks for playing!
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The results of our Hollywood's Classic Pains in the Ass is in, and you picked Wallace Beery! And rightly so, because according to Wikipedia (and decades of gossip):

Beery left an impression of being misanthropic and difficult to work with on many of his colleagues. Jackie Cooper, who made several films as a child with Beery, called Beery 'a big disappointment,' and accused him of upstaging and other attempts to undermine the boy's performances out of what Cooper presumed was jealousy. Child actress Margaret O'Brien also worked with Beery, and she ultimately had to be protected by crew members from Beery's insistence on constantly pinching her.

What a creep!

Here's the official tally:
  1. Wallace Beery  - 38.5% (5 responses)
  2. Joan Crawford - 30.8% (4 responses)
  3. Other - 23% (3 write-ins: Kay Francis, Bette Davis, and Norma Shearer)
  4. Claudette Colbert - 7.8% (1 response and OK, it was me)

Tomorrow's Quiz: Best Classic Fallen Woman
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