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Bette Davis Movie Favorites


Bette Davis was not afraid to play a very unlikeable character in Of Human Bondage. Although the movie is over 70 years old you should not be afraid to watch the performance that announced Bette Davis as a great actress.

Bette Davis didn't get to play Scarlett O'Hara but in Jezebel she was Julie Masden another willful southern girl in this story of the prewar south.

Bette Davis was a socialite who learns she is dying of a brain tumor in Dark Victory. This is said to be her favorite role.

Is she going to get away with murder? Bette Davis plays a Singapore plantation manager's wife who shoots her lover and claims self defense in The Letter.

Lillian Hellman wrote a Broadway play called The Little Foxes about the greedy matriarch of a southern family. Bette Davis took the role and made it her own.

After all the dark characters Bette Davis played we think you might need some laughs about now. She took a supporting role to be part of the cast of The Man Who Came to Dinner. It's not The Wedding Crashers but there's lots of amusement to be had in this old fashioned comedy

Don't let's ask for the moon when we have the stars. One of our all time favorite movie lines. Bette Davis pulls out all the stops as a duckling who turns into a swan and falls in love with a married man in Now, Voyager.

It's one of the best screenplays ever written and it gave Bette Davis her greatest role -Margo Channing. A story of ambition and betrayal on the Great White Way and a very "bumpy night" All About Eve.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Some may call this movie "dated" but we call it a Hollywood legend smackdown. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford play two aged sisters who have, shall we say, a very complicated relationship.

This wasn't Bette Davis' last movie but it's the one we are going to leave you with. Two elderly sisters( Lillian Gish was 95 and Bette Davis 79) have come to their cottage in Maine for what could be their last summer together. Not a lot of plot, not a lot of drama, just a quiet touching picture of aging and family. The Whales of August.



Bette Davis Filmography


1989

The Wicked Stepmother

1987 The Whales of August
1986

As Summers Die

1981 The Watcher in the Woods
1978 Return from Witch Mountain
Death on the Nile
1976 Burnt Offerings
1972

Lo Scopone Scientifico

Madame Sin

1971

Bunny O'Hare

Connecting Rooms

1968 The Anniversary
1965 Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Nanny
1964

La Noia

Where Love Has Gone

Dead Ringer
1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1961 Pocketful of Miracles
1959

John Paul Jones

1957

The Scapegoat

1956

Storm Center

The Catered Affair

1955 The Virgin Queen

Crack-Up

1952 The Star

Another Man's Poison

Phone Call from a Stranger
1951

Payment on Demand

1950 All About Eve
(Visit our Tribute to All About Eve)
1949

Beyond the Forest

1948

Winter Meeting

June Bride

1946

Deception

A Stolen Life

1945

The Corn is Green

1944 Mr. Skeffington

Hollywood Canteen

1943

Watch on the Rhine

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Old Acquaintance

Show Business at War

1942 Now, Voyager

In This Our Life

1941 The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Bride Came C.O.D.

Shining Victory

The Little Foxes

The Great Lie

1940 The Letter

All This and Heaven Too

1939

Juarez

Elizabeth, the Queen

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Old Maid

Dark Victory
1938 Jezebel

The Sisters

1937

It's Love I'm After

Marked Woman

Kid Galahad

That Certain Woman

1936 The Petrified Forest

Satan Met a Lady

The Golden Arrow

1935

Special Agent

Front Page Woman

The Girl from Tenth Avenue

Dangerous

Bordertown

1934

Fashions of 1934

Of Human Bondage

Fog Over Frisco

Menace

Jimmy the Gent

The Big Shakedown

Housewife

1933

20,000 Years in Sing-Sing

The Working Man

Ex-Lady

Bureau of Missing Persons

Parachute Jumper

1932

The Man Who Played God

Way Back Home

The Menace

Hell's Home

The Cabin in the Cotton

The Rich Are Always with Us

So Big

Three on a Match

The Dark Horse

1931

Seed

Bad Sister

Waterloo Bridge



Bette Davis Academy Awards®


Best Actress Nomination for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane --- 1963
Best Actress Nomination for The Star --- 1953
Best Actress Nomination for All About Eve --- 1951
Best Actress Nomination for Mr. Skeffington --- 1945
Best Actress Nomination for Now, Voyager --- 1943
Best Actress Nomination for The Little Foxes --- 1942
Best Actress Nomination for The Letter --- 1941
Best Actress Nomination for Dark Victory --- 1940
Best Actress Won for Jezebel --- 1939
Best Actress Won for Dangerous --- 1936
Best Actress Nomination for Of Human Bondage --- 1935



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Jezebel


Leslie ( The Letter ):

"With all my heart, I still love the man I killed."




What plum acting role did Bette Davis campaign for but not get?

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