Bette Davis, one of the few actresses willing to play characters “you love to hate. Bette Davis appeared in over 85 films we review and take a look at her career in the articles below.
One actor. Two film roles. You tell us which portrayal was the best. The most memorable. Or iconic. Or simply your favorite.But before you pass judgment, a few words defending the “character” of each… The case for Margo Channing Everybody…
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It’s been a mini-retrospective on DVD and Blu-ray of late for director Robert Aldrich. A number of films are being issued from the filmmaker best known for such mucho macho movies as The Dirty Dozen, Emperor of the North, and…
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Why do we love pre-Code films? Fast pace? Check. Great stories? Check. Great casts? Check again. Oh, come on. Let’s be honest. It’s the sex, depravity and lingerie! I consider all pre-Code films guilty pleasures. Each generation seems to think it is…
Read more →October 17, 1916: Swimming star-turned-actress Annette Kellerman causes a sensation when she appears in the nude in Daughter of the Gods. October 18, 1931: “The Wizard of Menlo Park” and film pioneer Thomas Alva Edison passes away at the age…
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Q: Are they ever going to release Bunny O’Hare with Bette Davis? It is such a good and funny movie. Please, please, please. A: The wacky comedy with Bette teaming up with Ernest Borgnine to portray bank robbers disguising themselves…
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All About Eve (1950) “My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre.” Mr. DeWitt may be…
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This outspokenly indomitable, unconventionally pretty New Englander reached Broadway and Hollywood through seeming force of will, and her craftwork and determination ensured a performing legacy that has endured for generations after her heyday. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts to a patent…
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When 1910s London chorus girl Myra Deauville (Mae Clarke) finds herself out of work, she assumes she’ll be able to find herself a new show soon enough. Two years later and still jobless, she has no choice but to become…
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In This Our Life: I sought out this movie thanks to an essay by Stanley Crouch, which focuses on the unusually progressive racial politics of the film, and offers it as a counterpoint to Gone With the Wind, which Crouch…
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Dark Victory Director: Edmund Goulding USA 1939 104 min. Starring: Bette Davis (article), George Brent, Humphrey Bogart , Geraldine Fitzgerald and Ronald Reagan, among others. A spoiled 23 year old heiress, Judith (Davis), is faced with the fact that she…
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