Liza Minnelli Claims Gene Hackman Was ‘Downright Rude’ on ‘Lucky Lady’ Set

Liza Minnelli claimed in her new memoir that Gene Hackman was “downright rude” on the set of their 1975 film Lucky Lady. In Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! — released on March 10 — the elder daughter of Judy Garland opened up about what it was like to work with Hackman behind the scenes. “I don’t like to whine, but [director] Stanley [Donen] later shared publicly that Gene was very dismissive of me during the film,” Minnelli wrote, per Entertainment Weekly. In Lucky Lady, Minnelli, 79, played Claire, a singer who promises to help two businessmen — Kibby Womack (Hackman) and Ellison Walker (Burt Reynolds), who were also best friends — smuggle alcohol from Mexico to the U.