Orson Welles used to belittle some of the biggest names actors of his day, unpublished private conversations of the star has revealed.
In the long-lost tapes in which he talked unguardedly to a friend, director Henry Jaglom, he said that Laurence Olivier was 'stupid' Spencer Tracy was 'hateful' and Charlie Chaplin was 'arrogant,' and that he could not even bear to look at famed actress Bette Davis, the Guardian reported.
Welles also said that James Stewart was a 'bad actor,' Joan Fontaine had 'two expressions, and that's it,' and Norma Shearer was one of minimally talented ladies to have appeared on silver screen.
In the tapes, Welles lavished praise on actors whom he admired like Joseph Cotten, his co-star in 'The Third Man' ("brilliant") and of John Wayne he said that some of the best manners of almost any actor that he ever met in Hollywood.
About Richard Burton, he said that he had great talent but ruined his gifts and has became a joke with a celebrity wife and is working for just money.