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It's a brief but instructive passage from her memoir, A Life on Film, about playing yet another mother in the first remake of Little Women (1949):

My approach to the part of Marmee was not an enthusiastic one... the girls all giggled and chattered and made a game of every scene. [Elizabeth] Taylor was engaged, and in love, and talking on the telephone most of the time (which is fine normally, but not when that production clock is ticking away the company's money). June Allyson chewed gum constantly and irritatingly, and Maggie O'Brien looked at me as though she were planning something very unpleasant.

Yes. Exactly so. Margaret O'Brien was a brat and June Allyson was dumb as a bag of hammers. It's funny because it's TRUE.
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Clockwise from bottom: Bratty, Sweetie, Dummy, Nymphy, and Classy
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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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