I'm gagging at this photo. Bette Davis and Jessica Lange at an AFI event in June 1983. (Thanks to Dan Callahan for sharing it.) Which means this photo was taken just two months after Lange won her first Oscar (Tootsie... she'd eventually be a two-time winner like Bette) and shortly before Davis suffered from multiple strokes...
Jessica's career had just exploded and Bette's was remarkably still going at 75. Ever the workaholic, she kept on working after those strokes. She still had two TV episodes, two TV films and two headlining roles in feature films left in her (The Whales of August, and Wicked Stepmother) before her death six years later in October of 1989.
Do you think Jessica will recall this meeting while filming the upcoming Feud with Sarandon playing Bette Davis?
Another photo from the same event with James Caan
