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Ann-Margret ‘Really Felt’ Like Bette Davis’ Daughter While Starring in 1961’s ‘Pocketful of Miracles’
Joan Crawford may have despised Bette Davis, but Ann-Margret was a big fan.
“I played her daughter, and I really felt like it,” the actress told Interview magazine, referring to the pair’s 1961 flick, Pocketful of Miracles.
Bette, who died in 1989 at age 81, helped Ann-Margret learn the movie ropes ahead of her onscreen debut at age 20. “I was about to have a close-up,” recalls the 84-year-old. “I didn’t know [about] close-shot, medium-shot, you know. She was there, and she at one point stopped all the filming and said, ‘Ann-Margret, this is your close-up. I want you to look as good as you possibly can. Makeup! Hair!’ ”
Of course, when two-time Oscar winner Bette — known for starring in All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jezebel and more — snapped her fingers, the crew jumped.
“The makeup person and hair person came, and when they finished, she looked [at me] and said, ‘Okay, now we can go on,’ ” the Hollywood legend recalls. “Oh, she was lookin’ out for me.”
