George C Scott’s drunk and violent rags terrified co -star

Scott grew in Michigan, son of a disciplinary father and a mother who died tragically when he was eight years old. His father married and began a new family, which Scott always said he made him feel unwanted. When he turned 17, he escaped to join the Marines, but he did not see action and decided to continue acting while he was in college. He would not experience any success until he was 30 years old, when he played Richard III on the New York stage. After that, his ascent to Hollywood’s top was meteoric.

Unfortunately, while Scott was enjoying every imaginable success as a film star, the problem of alcohol he had developed when he was young worsened every year that happened. “I have drunk my life,” said a repentant that Scott told him Tampa Bay Times In 1997. “Sometimes I resigned, sometimes I was in AA. But now management alcohol in my life stage. But there were times when I didn’t handle it very well. “

It is true that Scott was not the only star of his time that enjoyed a drink, in fact, Christopher Plummer Once he revealed that he, Scott and Jason Robards had what they referred to as “a small drink club.” However, while Plummer and Robards would get drunk mostly and have fun, the deceased Knives Star told the New York Post: “Scott always got into bars problems because he had that sinister face of his. He always invited people out and fight, but he always lost!

In fact, Scott’s propensity to get into the remains when he was drunk has fallen into the Hollywood tradition. Driven by sinking a room of vodka and beer, according to reports, I would choose physical fights with other drunks in bars, but also with people I worked with. As Plummer alluded, he lost these altercations so frequently that he became a joke of running how many times his nose broke, something that any member of the audience easily contemplated that he looked at his distinctively deformed twooter.

To the alarmingly, Scott’s reputation in Hollywood was so pronounced that when one of his co -star, Maureen Stapleton, he told director Mike Nichols: “I don’t know what to do, I’m afraid of him,” Nichols simply replied: “My dear, everyone is scared of George C Scott.”

However, Scott’s most horrible act during what he described as “a pair of very ugly love affairs, which will be without a name.” However, one of these matters did not remain without a name, and instead was dragged into light by a condemnatory memory written by One of Old Hollywood’s most beloved icons.

He will see, Scott allegedly brutalized Ava Gardner when the two were lovers. They met on the 1964 set The Bible And they began to see each other, and in their memoirs Ava: My storyGardner admitted: “When George got drunk, he could go crazy in a way that was quite scary.” Gardner said Scott once enraged during a drunk fight that broke two bottles to threaten it with broken glass fragments.

“I was kneeling through me, stirring the irregular edges of glass in front of my face with one hand and hitting me with the other,” said Gardner. “Tell me that I loved me and breaking a fist in my eye. ‘Consider with me, do you listen to what I am saying? followed by another blow. “

It was a truly terrifying accusation, but a Scott spokesman simply avoided the claim declaring: “Mr. Scott has not had the opportunity to read the book and, therefore, has no comments about its content.” However, the fact that he did not denied it completely says a lot about a particularly vicious player on the dark side of Hollywood’s story.

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