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Bette Davis - Movies I've Viewed
Aunt and Nephew - Movies (50 movies items)" Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale Bonita Granville as June Vale"
1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)" Notes: Basically, back in those days, these movies were really tailor-made around Bette Davis, and, to be honest, it takes a while to get used to the fact that these movies didn’t have much else to offer, at least, as far as I was concerned. Still, I was more able to enjoy this one though. Sure, the gimmick of the ugly duckling transforming into a gorgeous woman has never been really interesting but there is no doubt that Davis absolutely made the best of it. Indeed, she was so good when pla"
1001 Movies ... my own version (1940's) (90 movies items)" Notes: Basically, back in those days, these movies were really tailor-made around Bette Davis, and, to be honest, it takes a while to get used to the fact that these movies didn’t have much else to offer, at least, as far as I was concerned. Still, I was more able to enjoy this one though. Sure, the gimmick of the ugly duckling transforming into a gorgeous woman has never been really interesting but there is no doubt that Davis absolutely made the best of it. Indeed, she was so good when pla"
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it seemed to have a decent reputation, I thought I might as well check it out. In fact, I just saw yesterday ‘Dark Victory’, another classic starring Bette Davis. Basically, back in those days, these movies were really tailor-made around her, and, to be honest, it takes a while to get used to the fact that these movies didn’t have much else to offer, at least, as far as I was concerned. Still, I was more able to enjoy this one though. Sure, the gimmick of the ugly duckling transforming into a gorgeous woman has never been really interesting but there is no doubt that Davis absolutely made the best of it. Indeed, she was so good when playing this fragile and psychologically disturbed young woman. Later on, when she played” read more
TCM's Essentials: 52 Must See Movies (52 movies items)"“I think it’s such an essential Bette Davis because it shows all aspects of her – she can be the neurotic, overweight Aunt Charlotte, and then she’s the glamorous one, soft-spoken, tender. And she’s got these wonderful scenes with Gladys Cooper…were she’s very strong and forceful. You see all shades of her.” -Robert Osborne “It’s just one of the great romantic melodramas of all time…. What’s really fun about it on a girly level is one of the best makeovers in history. A"
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