Bette Davis, one of the few actresses willing to play unsympathetic characters or characters “you love to hate. Bette Davis appeared in over 85 films and was the first actress for receive Ten Academy Award Nominations, she was the first female actress to receive AFI’s Lifetime Achievement Award. A few notable film starring Davis are A Pocketful of Miracles(1961), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? from 1962, Now, Voyager (1942), and in 1935 she starred in Dangerous winning the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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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Early screen efforts of stars ranging from Deanna Durbin to Joan Crawford highlight this week’s new releases. Along with these nostalgia-packed early performances, other noteworthy new titles include recent theatrical hits, more Hollywood classics, TV favorites, sets showcasing the works…
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Guest blogger Marsha Collock writes: 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…
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Greetings film fans! This week’s new releases offer up something extra special for all of you classic cinema lovers. We’re thrilled to announce that Movies Unlimited is exclusively offering the classics Rhapsody in Blue and The Great Waltz on DVD ….
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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Last week, guest blogger Richard Finch presented his choices for The Greatest (Classic) Performances By an Actor. Here’s his follow-up piece examining his picks for the greatest leading ladies ever to hit the silver screen. This week I’m posting the…
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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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