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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on April 6, 2017 at 2:32 AM
on her birthday, Bette Davis, known for her role as Margo Channing in the movie "All About Eve (1950)".
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for the movies "Dangerous (1935)" and "Jezebel (1938)".
Reply by genplant29
on April 6, 2017 at 5:56 AM
She'd now be 109. So glad that Miss Davis existed and that she gave the world so many of her terrific films to savour!
Reply by AusFem
on April 7, 2017 at 9:09 AM
Just watched In This our Life, where she plays a spoilt brat. The mother annoyed me so much, Stanley (Bette) could do no wrong in her eyes no matter what horrible things she did. And Dead Ringer, where she murders her twin sister and takes over her life.
I love Bette when she plays evil, she is so good at it
Reply by rudely_murray
on April 7, 2017 at 9:14 AM
Agree wholeheartedly! My favourites of Bette's many great performances are The Letter and The Little Foxes.
The sequence with her husband (Herbert Marshall) on the stairs in the latter is one of the most dazzlingly-acted portrayals of pure maliciousness I have ever seen - anyone who has seen it knows of which scene I speak.
Reply by genplant29
on April 7, 2017 at 12:05 PM
I'm a fan of Pre-Code Bette. She was sweet, delicate, and pretty, but had a tremendous amount of presence and scene command, and could hold her own, in a gentle sort of way, alongside a movie's stars. The brassy/tough side of her hadn't at all yet started coming out, though she still always readily stood out, and never faded into the scenery.
Reply by AusFem
on April 7, 2017 at 3:09 PM
She was marvelous in Dark Victory
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!.
Reply by genplant29
on April 8, 2017 at 12:01 AM
That's an excellent one. Also Now, Voyager.