A Tribute to Bette Davis

That voice, those eyes, it could only be Bette Davis. Her long Hollywood career reached its pinnacle in 1950 with her dead on portrayal of the formidable, glamorous Broadway star, Margo Channing, in All About Eve. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night," she said. Then at the age of 54, when her own career had reached a bumpy patch, she reinvented herself as an aging former child star in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane". With that role she began her own second act, continuing to perform in another thirty films the last one at the age of 81. Destination Hollywood offers this Tribute to recognize the long and memorable career of one of Hollywood's greatest leading ladies ... Bette Davis.

What's New

Bette Davis was born 100 years ago in Lowell, Massachusetts. Boston University is marking the occasion with The Bette Davis Centenary Tribute beginning with an awards ceremony presenting the Bette Davis Lifetime Achievement Awards to Susan Sarandon and the Bette Davis Medal of Honor to Lauren Bacall.

A Retrospective Exhibition of the Life and Work of Bette Davis will be on display in the Frost Reading Room on the first floor of Mugar Memorial Library for the next year. The exhibition is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

DVD Spotlight

Bette Davis classic, Mr. Skeffington , available on DVD.

DH Suggests

Destination Hollywood Suggests this Tribute dedicated to one of Bette Davis' movies ...

		A Tribute to All About Eve Fasten you seat belts, it going to be a bumpy ride on the way to our Tribute to Hollywood's most famous self-satire, All About Eve.