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The illuminating, comprehensive biography of Bette Davis, one of the most electrifying Hollywood stars ever to grace the silver screen.
With a career spanning six decades and more than eighty films, Bette Davis is synonymous with Hollywood legend. From her incandescent performance as Margo Channing in All About Eve, to her terrifying, psychopathic Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Davis generated electricity wherever she appeared, whatever she didand not just on the silver screen. Her personal life was as passionate as her career and was so fiery that it eventually consumed her.
In this landmark biography, Lawrence J. Quirk takes us behind the scenes of all of Daviss movies, from her early unpromising roles, to her commanding presence at the pinnacle of stardom, to her degrading exploitation in horror films at the end of her career. Quirk delves into Daviss four unhappy marriages, as well as her frosty, manipulative...
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Even as a baby those eyes popped (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
As a lifeguard in her teensalready taking charge (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
With sister Bobbythe two had a lifelong love-hate relationship. (Collection ofDouglas Whitney)
Carl Laemmle, Jr.s, little brown wren, 1931 (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
The drab sister comforted by Emma Dunn in Bad Sister (her first movie), 1931 (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Blond and glamorous, Warner-style, 1932 (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
George Arliss, with Davis in The Man Who Played God, 1932, accelerated her rise. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Davis fell in love with George Brent, center, in The Rich Are Always With Us, 1932, but star Ruth Chatterton, left, made him her hubby for a while. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Caught between sexy Gene Raymond and creepy Monroe Owsley in Ex Lady, 1933 (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Getting together with William Powell her one and only time in Fashions of 1934 (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Leslie Howard was afraid shed steal his picture, Of Human Bondage, 1934. She did. (Collection of Doug McClelland)
Unprettily realistic in Of Human Bondage (thats Reginald Denny propping her up), she made her starring mark. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
She shot off so many sparks in Dangerous, 1935 (here with Pierre Watkin), that she copped her first Oscar. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
With first husband, Harmon Ham Nelson, at the 1936 Oscar event Ham was humiliated by her achieving greater success than he. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
The famous ball scene in the naughty red gown in Jezebel, 1938, with a disgusted Henry Fonda and white-garbed debutantes looking on (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
She patronized the young actor she called Little Ronnie Reagan, here with her and Geraldine Fitzgerald in the famed Dark Victory, 1939. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Donald Crisp, Brian Aherne, Davis, and Gilbert Roland sense trouble in Juarez, 1939. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Davis put down Errol Flynn as an actor, but they did very well together in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, 1939. Years later she admitted he was a better actor than she had thought. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
The sparks flew between Davis and Miriam Hopkins in the famous wedding-gown scene in The Old Maid, 1939. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Divorced from Ham, she tried a second marriage to Arthur Farnsworth in 1940, with sister Bobby in attendance. He left her a widow in 1943. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
Rumors about a relationship between her and co-star Mary Astor in The Great Lie, 1941, were unfounded, or so she insisted. Here she shares a cigarette with Astor. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
James Cagney gave Davis the cactus treatment in their comedy attempt, The Bride Came COD., 1941. (Collectionof Douglas Whitney)
Up the staircaseand up to no goodin The Little Foxes, 1941 (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
In her superhit Now, Voyager, 1942, she tells John Loder, right, that the world is a small place, but Boston is a large one. Thats Ilka Chase in the middle. (Collection of Douglas Whitney)
The famous flashback scene from Now, Voyager with handsome Charles Drake (Collection of Lawrence J. Quirk)
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