I'll Eat You Last - Sue talks about Faye Dunaway
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2013
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For more than 20 years, Sue Mengers's clients were the talk of the town, and her dinner parties were the envy of Hollywood. Now, you're invited into her glamorous Beverly Hills home for an evening of dish, dirty secrets and all the inside showbiz details only Sue can tell you.
Her clients were the biggest names in show business: Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Burt Reynolds, Ali McGraw, Gene Hackman, Cher, Candice Bergen, Ryan O'Neal, Nick Nolte, Mike Nichols, Gore Vidal, Bob Fosse.
Appearing on Broadway for the first time in nearly 40 years, Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning superstar Bette Midler plays the legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers (1932-2011) in this new, one-character play written by Tony Award® winner and three-time Academy Award® nominee John Logan and directed by two-time Tony Award® winner Joe Mantello. 
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Bette was brilliant in this. The fact that she NEVER got off that couch made it even more mesmerizing
Faye's work in "Chinatown" is priceless, regardless of the crummy $75,000.00.
Faye was Fab in Chinatown...and 3 Days of Condor.. recently viewed them both again...she can act!!! Held her own with Jack and Redford..
Saw this play on opening preview night. It still echoes in my mind, she was amazing.
No matter what she does, Bette is fabulous!
Saw Bette in '78 at the Sydney State Theatre for her record 24 straight shows at her peak.
Tickets $6.50, good value.
Those were the days!
Amazing. I want an agent like this!!
Wish I'd seen this live. There's a great rip on Mengers so great!, by Shelley Winters in Blake Edward's brilliant film, S.O.B.
Faye Dunaway knew how to use and optimize the tools she had in her belt. She could get you to like her early on in the story and seduce you into more subtlety. She knew this was her way of creating the finality of her performance in the minds of the audience and it worked. She loved the emotional moments, the close ups which represented the drama of her character and her goal was to surprise her opposing actor. She was a seductress providing something fresh, but something desirable. Actors either have it or they don't. She could have done a lot more if she was easier to work with but whatever.
I met her in 2003 and she was truly evil. Lived up to her portrayal of Joan Crawford to a tee and more. She's an asshole
if shed had been easier to work with the talent would not have been there and so is the way of the world
Saw this in previews. Hysterically funny!!!
It warms my heart
I wish this play was filmed. Would love to see the whole thing.
In the movie The Last of Sheila, Dyan Cannon plays a loud and brassy Hollywood agent supposedly based on Sue Mengers. The screenplay was written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. Dyan was perfect.
Also Shelly Winters I. S.O.B. riffing on Mengers
I Remember that Movie or barely remember that Movie. I saw it when I was veyr young at the Theters last Century. If I remember, it turned out that Richard Benjamin was the Killer- the Bad Guy.
Amazing movie. Really captured that era.
PERFECT!!!!!
I'd love to see this, it would have been great if they'd put the whole show on video. I'm sure it's no longer being produced, this video is almost 10 years old...
I'll entertain anything involving Bette
Betty davis knew faye. She worked with her and said " she was the most unprofessional actress she has ever worked with! Always late always late and unprofessional
Bette! She'd whip you for spelling her name wrong. You are correct though about her dislike for Dunaway's lack of professionalism. As much as she didn't get along with Joan Crawford she at least said " she was on time. she knew her lines. she was a professional."
@@doody244 😆
She said the same about Miriam Hopkins. Go to the "Good Morning America" show from the 1980s with David Hartman interview. It is broken up in four parts. I think she says it in the last one. Of course, she hadn't met Faye by then. Her spite torward Miriam was from old. I think they knew each other way before either went into film. Miriam hit it big first and then things went downhill. As Bette's star was ascending, Miriam's was descending......and Bette slept with Miriam's husband for good measure.
@@makeittrue oh thats funny! If this happened in todays world with all the cameras there would be some juicy hollywood gossip revealed!
@@dedebee2815 On Amazon, there is finally a biography on Miriam. It has been pricey for the hard copy at $40. My mother was born in 1927. She always liked Miriam Hopkins. Mother said she had a different look. She was a good actress in my opinion. Margaret Mitchell felt she should play Scarlett in "GWTW" as she came from that part of Georgia. William Wyler liked her. She ended up playing supporting parts as the meddlesome aunt in "The Heiress" and the bitchy wife of Laurence Olivier in "Carrie". I think she had a broad range as she played comedy and drama both extremely well.
Diann Cannons character in “The Last Of Shelia”, was based on Sue Menger.
It's a glass wall, with a door in it, separating the rooms from each other, and the sofa/couch is set against it, which is why you can see her reflection :)
If I were an actor I wouldn't want someone like this on my team. I'd audition and let my work speak for itself.
It doesn’t work like that
In that case, if you were an actor you'd be a strikingly unsuccessful one
Do you know if there are plans on releasing the whole show? These clips are terrific but we would like to see the complete show =^)
It's always Bette doing Bette.
I think she was amazing in The Rose. She wasn't playing herself in that one. But then (I guess) Hollywood noticed her huge personality, so they gave her such roles. Which is a shame, cause she's amazing not only in these bigger-then-life roles, but in smaller, dramatic parts as well.
They gripe that way about Hepburn, Davis, and other stars with big personalities. Who cares?
I agree. I love Bette as a singer and in a few of her films but here she's just doing Bette Midler. Boring.
@Lydia Lilli
I thought so, too, until I actually saw this "60 Minutes" interview with Ms. Mengers: ruclips.net/video/yImVvMovTVw/видео.html
Miss Midler captures her perfectly.
MrMalibupj Totally agree...
I remember what Bette Midler said about the movie Mommie Dearest. She was walking in NYC and saw someone wearing a t shirt with a stern looking Joan Crawford picture on it. It read "I never laid a hand on those fuc..ng kids."
Does this exist complete anywhere?
I would have loved to see this
Oh dear. I suppose one had to be there.
I want Sue Menger for my agent
Cream Cheese right!?
I need to see her in this😂
Sue screwed that deal up she could have gotten $125,000 or $150,000 for Faye.
I think there was a lull in Faye’s movie career before Chinatown. She hadn’t been in anything big or that made money for about three years prior to Chinatown. Chinatown certainly reignited her career. Afterwards she made several big movies including Network.
No one but Bette....
How would you like to be a spy at Paramount for Sue Menger?
I knew this was Bette 🧡🧡🧡
I could see HER not knowing Jane Fonda turned them down, but wouldn't HE know if there really was an Arthur Penn movie in the works? Still a funny bit.
Why would I pay any money to see this show as I can get all the best parts on RUclips?
Sadly, Fay Dunaway is difficult to work with. People often talk about Betty Davis‘s feud with Joan Crawford, but the truth of the matter is, Betty Davis never knew hatred until she met Fay Dunaway. Similar story on the set of Supergirl, Brenda Vaccaro said she was horrible to the costume designers.
I paid almost $450.00 last month to see her!!!
Well, she was fine, but definitely not quite up to all that money!!!
Bette can only play Bette. I really find her very one-note and affected. She is also homophobic.
wow...that is expensive.
Love Bette. Is she looking a bit like Streisand ???
I thought so too!
I thought an older version of Anastascia?
No idea, but I love the wig: & that caftan... 😁
Faye, thank god in Chinatown. Not Jane
She kind of looks like and sounds like Bette Midler (if Bette had straight blonde hair).
Thank G-d you let it run and didn`t try to clean it up...good stuff! Mengers was incredible..probably more incredible than even the portrait. But did Dunaway do `Chinatown` for only $75,000? I can`t believe it!
Sandra Shevey it was the 70s... Dunaway already by then had a reputation for being difficult. Women were treated like trash in the industry in the 70s also hence a huge salary difference between Nicholson and Dunaway.
$75,000 in today's money would be over $500,000.
@@tmmaston But men were and are receiving 10x more.
@@bradley583 I worked out of Hollywood in the Seventies as a megastar interviewer Chicago Trtb Syndicate (60 Sunday magazines) I introduced into the `celebrity interview` issues of gender, race, antisemitism and orientation. See sandrasheveyinterviews RUclips. Untrue that in the 70s women were treated like `trash`. Better treatment, conditions, money in the 70s as independent fil,m was emerging while the old studio system was dying. Dunaway DID have a reputation but is flawless in every role. I know I was in Cortina when she was makaing the film with Marcello. Asked for an interview and got rejected. There is a story about Faye, maybe apocryphal, maybe true. But it`s about days being mobiles. At the hairdresser she is reputed to have jumped up every time the phone rang as and when she was waiting for some communication about a job for which she was being considered. Really the finest actress of the Seventies. Turned acting around without losing the basic theatrical grit.
Why is there a glass behind her?
Who the hell is sue?
Sue Mengers is the reason the business is dead in my opinion. When it became a business with no focus on creativity or THE BEST ACTOR for the role - the entertainment industry died
It’s showBUSINESS. The movie industry has never been solely about art
she sounds like sophie tucker......
the comedic timing in this script is all but absent ...
Hello you tube fans " I was with Bette Midler " And she was with me ...She spent a lot of time with me at Sunset Sound Studios in los Angeles Ca on Tuesday August 5th 1980.. I also was with Bette and My Late Friend Jim Parker , just the 3 of us .
A night I will never forget ...
From the guy that really was with Bette Midler..
lmao lol
The Divine Miss M!
Great SUE MENGERS !
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Sandra Bernhard did this years ago on Letterman. And was funnier.
ruclips.net/video/goVanofOM6M/видео.html its starts around 7:30
Bette can only play Bette.
The rag red readout of virtriol directed at Bette Midler in the comments below is surprising to me.
Even Bettie Davis stated and swore that Faye dunnaway was an unprofessional nightmare. But I'm not s star! 🌟
Jane Fonda would have stunk in CHINATOWN.
For those easily pleased
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What about this is entertaining?
This was awful
Wtf is this?
I saw this. She was fine but it isn't much of a play. She did all she could but the material is second rate.
She was on the wrong side on this one..:
Boy she looks bad
She's tired!
Worst play. Ever!!
Bette Davis called Dunaway the most unprofessional actor she's ever worked with.
The language is too much. I stopped listening to it.
I had a headache after two minutes; I can't imagine sitting through this for two hours.
This does not seem very good to me. Her line readings are bizarre.
This isnt the least bit funny.
You obviously have no sense of humor and am unfamiliar with Sue Mengers.
So funny I forgot to laugh. Who cares.
oof
So, tell me, Bette (or, Miss Sue) whomever you are, why didn't Lonnie give Burt a baby? And, why did their marriage not work? Did Burt ever have a baby, Bette? Did Lonnie ever have a baby? Could they, between the two of them, have a possibility to have a baby, in that marriage? Or, was that marriage a Hollywood marriage attracting attention for attention's sake? Bette?
Ironically, Dunaway's marketability ran out after Mommie Dearest. Her over the top impersonation of Joan Crawford was nothing compared to horror stories from film sets on how she mistreated film crews and kept actors and directors waiting for hours. Come to think of it, Faye playing Joan Crawford was no stretch at all, it was more autobiographical than she'd care to admit.
well she has mentioned in interviews that she really relates to Joan Crawford and she obviously doesnt even believe what Christina wrote in her book, the way she always talks about her as 'that girl' shows that she is on Joan's side lmao
I like both actresses very much, but a distinction between Joan and Faye is that Joan was LOVED by the film crew, grips, makeup, etc. She went out of her way to treat them with the utmost respect and kindness. Directors and co-stars might have been a different story - although she was generally quite good to them as well. Faye was a fantastic actress but known to be a pill on set. They were completely opposite in this regard.
Fay's motion picture marketability also ran out because she was around 40 at the time she made Mommie Dearest. Age 40 is the death knell for any actress in motion pictures. After 40 an actress is reduced to character roles or supporting roles in motion pictures. Or she might still get a starring role in made for TV productions.
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Once loved Bette Midler. So talented once upon a time. To me she's just turned into a blabbering yenta, a bit grating on the nerves. You go Bette, but dont like this new version of The Divine Miss M.
After the first album it was downhill for me. I bought every album and watched every movie (except Drowning Mona). There's always a juicy crumb in everything she did. I am the only person who loves Jinxed. Hated The Rose movie except the song.
Not sure why she'd want to play such a pig of a character.
I'd like to see Faye give Hillary Clinton the "1st Lady Dearest" treatment.She's such a revolting phony.One of the true villans
Hillary Clinton's a wonderful first lady she was a wonderful politician one of the best we've had. Remember the anti-American racist bigoted pedophile loving Republicans investigated the clintons for decades and never found anything. But since you said what you said I'm going to bet you're a racist bigoted anti-American pedophile loving trumpet
Who on earth would want Faye Dunaway in place of Jane Fonda?!??
I'll take Faye over Jane any day of the week
If you've seen the movie you would know Dunaway was the right choice