- Bette Davis: [answering the phone] What?
- Female Reporter: Miss Davis, this is Jan Tomlinson with the AP Wire Service.
- Bette Davis: Good morning. Ah, I've lost track of the days. Are there nominations announced or something?
- Female Reporter: No. Miss Davis, Joan Crawford died this morning. Do you have a comment?
- Bette Davis: [after a long pause] My mother always said, "Don't say anything bad about the dead. Only say good." Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
- Adam Friedman: She had a big funeral, yeah? Not as big as Judy Garland's, but star-studded?
- Mamacita: Yes.
- Adam Friedman: Myrna Loy, Anita Loos, Andy Warhol. Jack Valenti got the studios to observe a moment of silence.
- Mamacita: It made me sad.
- Adam Friedman: To say goodbye to her?
- Mamacita: No, because they all showed up to say goodbye. But when she was alive, when she needed them most, no one was there.
- Adam Friedman: How did you come to reconnect with Joan Crawford?
- Pauline Jameson: I ran into her at LaGuardia. She was wearing a Pepto pink dress and a mask of chalk-white foundation, being wheeled through the airport with broken ankles, drunk. Alone. And for all our past difficulties, when I touched her arm, she cried. She called me "old friend" and asked me to visit her in Manhattan. She seemed very much tossed away.