Films: Bette Davis
Annotation:The only Davis film to win Best Picture finds Davis as an aging Broadway veteran facing competition in youthful up and comer Anne Baxter. George Sanders heads a top-notch supporting cast.
Place a Hold
Annotation:An overbearing family matriarch calls her brood together, with less than pleasant results. Davis—sporting an eyepatch!—really chews the scenery in this pitch black comedy.
Annotation:An heiress is inflicted with an inoperable tumor in this classic weepie. Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan fill out the supporting cast.
Annotation:Convicted of an axe-murder, a woman is eventually released, only to have similar murders begin occurring again. Co-star Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, George Kennedy and Bruce Dern.
Annotation:A vain, headstrong woman in the Old South schemes to reclaim the love of her one-time fiancée (Henry Fonda).
Annotation:A woman on a rubber plantation claims to have shot a man in self-defense, but the titular letter may undo her story. Features one of the decade’s great opening sequences.
Annotation:The wiles of a beautiful woman spell doom for more than one man.
Annotation:A woman agrees to a loveless marriage to save her brother. Claude Rains, again, is the husband.
Annotation:A reserved woman blossoms under therapy and finds love. Co-stars Paul Henried and the great Claude Rains.
Annotation:Davis is a lower class waitress who becomes the romantic obsession of a sensitive medical student (Leslie Howard).
Annotation:Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life) remade his own earlier comedy—1933’s Lady fro the Day—and casts Davis as a street peddler who a gangster (Glenn Ford!) tries to pass off as a rich lady. This one boasts another terrific supporting cast, including Peter Falk and Edward Everett Horton.
Annotation:Headstrong Queen Elizabeth must rule Britain as well as her passion for the dashing Lord Essex (Errol Flynn).
Annotation:This marked the last time Davis was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, as she joins former screen rival Joan Crawford for this overripe tale of a pair of sisters bound by a twisted hate relationship.
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Back in the day when women were some of Hollywood’s most popular stars, Bette Davis was one of the biggest of them all. Her unique, doe-eyed look and burning intensity saw her cast against some of the industry’s biggest male stars, and the studios cast her in many of the most celebrated melodramas of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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