Liza Minnelli alleges Gene Hackman was 'dismissive' and 'rude' to her

Liza Minnelli does not have fond memories of the movie she made with the late Gene Hackman, as she describes in her new memoir.

Liza Minnelli does not have fond memories of the movie she made with the late Gene Hackman.

In her new memoir "Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!" the Oscar-winning "Cabaret" actress, 79, alleges Hackman was rude and dismissive toward her when they worked together on the 1975 film "Lucky Lady."

Minnelli writes in the book that one of the reasons she agreed to star in the movie, despite not liking the script, was because she "respected" Hackman's work. According to her, though, the feeling "wasn't mutual."

"I don't like to whine, but [director] Stanley [Donen] later shared publicly that Gene was very dismissive of me during the film," she writes. "It's hard to go to work when the chemistry is absent. I think it's fair to say that Gene was downright rude."

Burt Reynolds also starred in "Lucky Lady," an adventure film about rum-runners during the Prohibition era. The movie was not well-received upon release, with Roger Ebert saying at the time that "rarely is so much effort expended on a movie so inconsequential." Writing for The New York Times, Vincent Canby also panned the movie as an "over-produced, under-thought-out production."