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What's it like to act with Meryl Streep, movie icon, when you're say, 23 years old, and you grew up never knowing a world without La Streep, who in addition to her twin Academy Awards has gone to the Oscar bat no fewer than 14 times, leaving such other femme legends as Katharine Hepburn (12 noms) and Bette Davis (10 noms) in the dust. It comes as no surprise that today's twentysomething actors grew up knowing not the classy Sturm und Drang stuff like "Silkwood" and "Cry in the Dark" but rather... (Variety)
New on DVD: There is a well of talent in 'Blood' Apr 11, 2008
The Virgin Queen (* * 1/2; 1955, Fox, unrated, $20): In her second screen outing as Elizabeth I, Bette Davis steals this eye-soothing plodder from Richard Todd's Sir Walter Raleigh, who originally was intended to be the movie's focus. At 22, Joan Collins is a lady-in-waiting, and the DVD's making-of featurette makes you think you've just watched a better film than you have, which is a compliment. (USA Today -- Life)
DVD reviews: 'Will Be Blood,' 'Walk Hard' Apr 11, 2008
The Bette Davis CollectionFive films from the actress with the piercing eyes are gathered in a six-disc set, led by 1950s best-picture Oscar winner All About Eve, which gets a DVD makeover in a two-disc version that includes commentary featuring director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and co-star Celeste Holm. The film stars Davis as an aging stage star whose young fan (Anne Baxter) schemes to take over her idols life. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Bet on Bette Apr 9, 2008
Bette Davis, a salty legend who spanned distinct eras in Hollywood history, once said of aging: "Getting old is not for sissies." ... A new 20th Century Fox DVD box set, The Bette Davis Collection, shows just how sublimely talented Davis turned out to be in middle age ... Bette Davis was hardly lovable, but her performances were always mesmerizing. (Edmonton Sun)
Jules Dassin: Master of the Heist Apr 7, 2008
On seeing Phaedra an updated Greek tragedy that threw Anthony Perkins into the arms of stepmother Mercouri Pauline Kael compared it invidiously to a Bette Davis weepie. Both were making the same point: that art isn't only what comes from Europe, and that kitsch wasn't a Hollywood monopoly. (Time.com)
Chilled in Winnipeg Apr 5, 2008
Was it Bette Davis or Katherine Hepburn who said, Print anything you want, as long as it's not the truth. So now I read that I'm dating him oh, and him, too, and him and I just think, Wow, lucky me. (Globe and Mail)
Click for Full Story Apr 5, 2008
In 1908, actress Bette Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts; conductor Herbert von Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria. In 1975, nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek died at age 87. (KWTX.com, TX)
Mother Goddam Apr 5, 2008
They tried to change her looks and even her name, but Hollywood never succeeded in taming Bette Davis's spirit ... Bette Davis: relaxing in 1939 ... There were two roles Bette Davis - who was born 100 years ago today - wanted and never got. (Guardian Unlimited)
New on DVD: 'Demon' Depp, Bette Davis and the 39th president Apr 4, 2008
By Mike Clark, USA TODAY This week's platinum picks are an eclectic bunch: Sweeney Todd, the third Bette Davis Collection and Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains ... The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3* * *, 1939-46, Warner, unrated, $60 When you get into Vol. 3 of almost anything, bones have been picked. (USA Today -- Life)
New DVDs: 'Sweeney Todd,' 'Chipmunks' Apr 4, 2008
Also new: Volume three Bette Davis collection, John From Cincinnati ... Bette Davis Collection: Volume ThreeThe Hollywood legend gets another boxed-set treatment with this six-disc collection packing half a dozen movies from the 1930s and 40: The Old Maid features Davis as an unmarried woman who gives up her daughter to be raised by a cousin and poses as the childs spinster aunt; All This, and Heaven Too casts Davis as a governess romanced by her employer (Charles Boyer)... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Witch who cast a spell over the movies Apr 3, 2008
If Bette Davis were alive today, she'd be 100 - and as wicked and funny as ever. Bette Davis died at 81, not a bad age for one of Hollywood's heroic smokers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
As Lowell prepares to host a major film shoot, locals line up to audition for parts as extras Apr 3, 2008
Birthplace of Bette Davis and Jack Kerouac, Lowell, of course, is no stranger to fame. The city has been shown in numerous short movies, documentary films, and TV dramas, and tomorrow, it is set to launch its first film festival. (Boston Globe)
A Look At The Legend Apr 3, 2008
Assessing Bette Davis at 100. Article:Assessing Bette Davis at 100:/c/a/2008/04/01/DDETVTF08 ... DTL Article:Assessing Bette Davis at 100:/c/a/2008/04/01/DDETVTF08. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Remembering Bette Davis on centennial of her birth Apr 3, 2008
The Associated Press Bette Davis as an aging actress in "All About Eve" (1950) ... Bette Davis, born 100 years ago this week, made her first appearance on film in 1931 and her last in 1989, and like every star of her generation she was always ready for her close-up. (International Herald Tribune)
Shakespearean tragedy: actor dies after play ends Apr 3, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. A CAST member of an acclaimed Indian production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was found dead in a Sydney hotel three days after its Sydney season ended. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Assessing Bette Davis at 100 Apr 3, 2008
The thinking on Bette Davis hasn't changed in decades ... And if the price of staying in the public eye was a reinforcement of the Bette Davis cliche, then Davis was willing to play "Bette Davis." When she made a personal appearance at the Masonic Auditorium in 1978, Davis entered with a cigarette, struck a pose and brayed "What a dump!" - her signature line from "Beyond the Forest." Toward the end of her life, when a stroke left her emaciated, delusional and crankier than ever, Davis went on... (San Francisco Chronicle)
All about Bette Apr 2, 2008
The city of Lowell just had a big celebration of favorite son Jack Kerouac, and now it's focused on another local star, Bette Davis ... Do you have Bette Davis eyes. (Boston Globe)
For the record Apr 1, 2008
Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Bette Davis quote from the film "Cabin in the Cotton" was inaccurate in a story in Sunday's Movies section. The line was, "I'd like to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.". (Boston Globe)
Back from D.C. ... is it opening day? Apr 1, 2008
The entry titled "Back from D.C. ... is it opening day?," and any of the comments about it. Commenting is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. M-F. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Lowell Film Festival honors Bette Davis Mar 30, 2008 The sting of poverty Mar 30, 2008 What ever happened to Bette Davis? Mar 30, 2008 False Memory: The Strange Case of H. Clinton Mar 30, 2008 THERES SOMETHING ABOUT BETTE Mar 30, 2008 Hollywood Assassination: Secret Screenplay 'Exposes' Indie Film World Mar 28, 2008 New on DVD: 'Bonnie and Clyde,' other dark treats Mar 28, 2008 Viagra introduces its latest celebrity backer: the devil Mar 27, 2008 Fasten your seat belts with Bette Mar 26, 2008 God and Tyler Perry vs. Hollywood Mar 21, 2008 Sidney Lumet puts his luminary career down to luck Mar 20, 2008 Dowd: Ways of the wayward Mar 15, 2008 Pre-code Hollywood Mar 8, 2008 Soprano family values Mar 8, 2008 New on DVD: Go 'Wild' for Sean Penn's moving film Mar 7, 2008 ABC wants Crawford for 'Good,' 'View' Mar 4, 2008 Beginning of the end for marriage? Mar 2, 2008 Read on... Feb 28, 2008 Oscars 2008: First time at bat can be the right time Feb 25, 2008 Oscar has been visiting these shores for ages Feb 24, 2008 Travel: Burt Reynolds museum is kitschy fun Feb 24, 2008 80 Years Of Oscar Memories Feb 24, 2008 Good, bad -- the anti-hero Feb 23, 2008 Good, bad and the anti-hero: Oscar contenders in gray zone Feb 21, 2008 TCM's 31 DAYS OF OSCAR(R) Survey Offers Glimpse at Movie Fans' Oscar Favorites Feb 21, 2008 Wall Street - The Movie Feb 19, 2008 Forever hunky Feb 19, 2008 High-octane Otto Feb 18, 2008 Happy Burt-days! Feb 18, 2008 Vanity and the fair go: who's in the frame? Feb 17, 2008 New on DVD: Oscar nominees and old favorites Feb 15, 2008 Audience fading for repertory movie theaters Feb 12, 2008 Fantasy flick go-to kid Freddie Highmore grows into mature roles Feb 12, 2008 Musical Sedation Instead Of Ovation Feb 9, 2008 DEATH OF HOLLYWOOD Feb 7, 2008 Year of the Rat promises economic prosperity Feb 6, 2008 50 Ways To Beat the Cold Feb 4, 2008 Sorvino is in the House Feb 4, 2008 * [BOOK REVIEW] Think Hemingway, a crazy femme fatale and a macho man Feb 3, 2008 Q&A: Robert Osborne Feb 3, 2008 Ocean liners are often vehicles for filmmakers' tales Jan 31, 2008 Will 2008 be better or worse? Jan 23, 2008 Oscars for Directing - 1950s/1960s Jan 20, 2008 Stardust: The Bette Davis Story Jan 17, 2008 No Country for Old Men Jan 17, 2008 Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A composer returns to the limelight Jan 15, 2008 Review: 'Lonesome Dove' heroes - younger, still battling Indians Jan 12, 2008 '07 films big on mope, short on hope Jan 12, 2008 Gramercy Park, New York Jan 6, 2008 Julie Burchill Jan 4, 2008 Christmas parties a-plenty Jan 3, 2008 The New Christy Minstrels: Members of famed folk group bring nostalgia, but also a strong array of songs to benefit in Sierra Vista Jan 3, 2008 I'm very lucky,' centenarian says Jan 2, 2008 Bette Davis Honored With 2008 Stamp Dec 30, 2007 U.S. Stamp Celebrates China's 'Year of Rat' Dec 30, 2007 For your post only - Royal Mail unveils James Bond stamps Dec 29, 2007 Feud fatigue for judge in Connery lawsuit Dec 28, 2007 Film Registry welcomes sci-fi pics, Westerns Dec 28, 2007 Postal Service Previews 2008 Stamps Dec 28, 2007 Coming soon to a letter near you: New 2008 stamps Dec 28, 2007 * World News Quick Take Dec 28, 2007 The eyes have it: Bette Davis stars on stamp Dec 28, 2007 Bette Davis puts stamp on mail Dec 28, 2007 Library of Congress picks 25 more movies for film registry Dec 28, 2007 Swank slumming in sappy stinker Dec 23, 2007
A focus on Bette Davis, ethnic groups, and globalization ... To celebrate the centennial of Bette Davis, one of its most famous native daughters, the city of Lowell is hosting a special evening celebration on Wednesday ... For details on the Bette Davis event, visit or call 978-275-1831. (Boston Globe)
New DVD from Fox is all about Bette Mar 30, 2008
After leaving Warner Brothers, where she made some of her most enduring films, Bette Davis washed up at 20th Century Fox. Darryl F. Zanuck's studio was never quite sure what to do with an actress of her stature, or of Davis's peculiar talents, a situation made clear by Fox's new five-disc "Bette Davis Collection" (coming out April 8, just one week after Warner's latest Bette set). (Boston Globe)
Once, these questions were worked out on the big screen, by stars like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Today those melodramas have moved from fiction to the hyperreal world of the tabloid omniverse. (Boston Globe)
What ever happened to Bette Davis ... Whatever happened to Bette Davis ... Bette Davis turns 100 on Saturday. (Boston Globe)
When she told her tall tale on television in the beautifully crafted performance that TV Guide rightly honored, she did it with a virtuosa's mastery of every nuance, displaying a range of emotions that would have made Bette Davis look one-dimensional. It wasn't just what she said that impressed but the stage setting, the costuming (the ladylike pinkish suit, the perfect hair), the delicate pose, just the right sight lines with the Lincoln portrait in the background, the tonal modulation that no... (Townhall.com)
March 30, 2008 -- BETTE DAVIS PLACED second to Katharine Hepburn in a 1999 American Film Institute list of the greatest female stars of all time ... Consider John Huston's 1942 melodrama "In This Our Life," one of six DVD debuts included in Tuesday's "The Bette Davis Collection Volume 3," which draws on the peak of her career at Warner Bros. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Bette Davis, he said, was "tough." Marilyn Monroe "was a ding dong. I liked old Marilyn. No one could get her out on the set.". Widmark s last film was "True Colors" in 1991. (Fox News)
Due Tuesday: Johnny Depp sings and slices in Sweeney Todd; vintage Bette Davis, Tom Snyder with The Beatles (though not all together, alas). Posted. (USA Today -- Life)
Bette Davis: one of the great events of her time. Day In a Page. (Yahoo News -- Men's Health)
Now, 100 years since the actor Bette Davis's birth, and 19 years since her death from breast cancer in 1989, she is to hit the big screen once again. New, improved prints of some of her most famous films - including All About Eve, Jezebel, The Letter and The Little Foxes - are being screened in cinemas around the country between now and July, in a collaboration between the British Film Institute and Turner Classic Movies. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
That format, which fed decades of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford weepies, still raises its head occasionally--in the HBO series Big Love or Broadway's August: Osage County. And it's at the soapy, singing center of most Bollywood films. (Time.com)
First of all, I don't think it's ever been true, whether you go back to James Cagney and the movies of the '30s or Bette Davis and the movies of the '40s and the villains they played. . (Melbourne Herald Sun)
When Bette Davis played Elizabeth I, she was always sending her lovers off to the Tower of London when they made eyes at her pretty ladies-in-waiting. Catherine the Great was hardly known for her restraint. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
-- ''Three on a Match'' (1932): Filled with alcoholism, drug abuse and child neglect, director Mervyn LeRoy's film is about three childhood friends from different social strata who grow up to become Bette Davis, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak. As a wealthy woman who deserts her kind husband and young son for a life of debauchery, Dvorak has the showiest and raunchiest part. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
From Angelina Jolie's lips to Bette Davis' eyes, Hollywood starlets get digitally manipulated. Gossip. (Yahoo News -- The Sopranos)
Three on a Match (1932, early Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart) features wall-to-wall vice. Extras, extras: A new documentary, Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood, boasts savvy scholarship and clips: Warren William to a much younger cutie: "Why not take off your clothes and stay a while?". (USA Today -- Life)
THERE'S A NEW DVD in the works about the making of the 1964 Gothic thriller, "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte." This starred Bette Davis and her old friend Olivia de Havilland. Movie began as a vehicle for Bette and Joan Crawford as a follow-up to their Grand Guignol smash hit, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" Davis made Joan's days on the 'Charlotte" set a living hell. Eventually, Crawford claimed illness and withdrew from the movie, paving the way for Olivia. But, Crawford did film a number of... (Variety)
I think it's because I watched too many Bette Davis and Joan Crawford films and identified with those wisecracking, fast-talking dames. If it were a case of choosing between being Doris Day and Joan Crawford, I would always choose to be the mistress, never the wife. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bette Davis; because she lived on her own terms; because she was a study in opposites; because she loved and loathed as passionately as she was loved and loathed ... Five people who I'd like to see answer this survey: Bette Davis, Sidney Lumet, Barack Obama; Al Pacino; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Variety)
Bette Davis 10 (two wins). Jack Lemmon 8 (two wins). (San Diego Union-Tribune)
"Bette Davis, in the end, only wanted her costumes made by him. But he was so rude - and a loudmouth and a drunk - that she forbade him to speak.". Parer said Orry-Kelly's amazing creative output including 263 movies. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
He has autographs from Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra (who writes: "Why don't you cheer up and have a good time?"), Bette Davis, Gene Kelly and "Missy" Stanwyck, among others. 2. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
1935: Bette Davis snubbed for "Of Human Bondage." Ensuing outrage inspires the Academy to allow write-in candidates. 1936: In an Oscar first, Best Writer winner Dudley Nichols ("The Informer") refuses his award in solidarity with striking unions. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
" Bette Davis lived up to her film's titles and won for 1935's "Dangerous" and 1938's "Jezebel. " "It's always more appealing to watch selfish Scarlett in "Gone With the Wind" than self-sacrificing Melanie," says Lisa Dombrowski, an associate professor of film at Wesleyan University, about the polar-opposite heroines of 1939's best picture. But the tendency to actually reward roles of a shadier type has grown more consistent since the tumultuous Vietnam era, when Hollywood moved away from the... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Bette Davis lived up to her film's titles and won for 1935's Dangerous and 1938's Jezebel. "It's always more appealing to watch selfish Scarlett in Gone With theWind than self-sacrificing Melanie," says Lisa Dombrowski, an associate professor of film at Wesleyan University, about the polar-opposite heroines of 1939's best picture. (USA Today -- Life)
The network also offers critically acclaimed original documentaries and specials, including the Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton-The Man in the Shadows, the Emmy-winning Stardust: The Bette Davis Story and the Emmy-nominated Brando. More information is available at tcm. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Holding down the #24 slot, Gekko was sandwiched in between Eve Harrington (Bette Davis) from All About Eve (1950) at #23 and Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) from The Shining (1980) at #25. That's right, pal, Gekko nosed out an axe murderer. (Suite101.com)
For women the path was rockier and generally shorter, and only the strong, like Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck, survived. But these careers reflected a time of different demographics, when movies possessed a nearly universal appeal. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
"Bette Davis, for example - women who were on equal footing with the men. I wanted to explore the way they would attack a situation.". Working in TV was largely uncharted territory for Otto, who is best known for big screen roles in War Of The Worlds, The Lord Of The Rings and What Lies Beneath. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
"), Bette Davis, Gene Kelly and "Missy" Stanwyck, among others. 2. The personalized notes. Cary Grant calls him "my, and the world's, favorite light comedian. " Elizabeth Taylor playfully writes: "Darling Burt, you need a more experienced woman (like me. (The Palm Beach Post)
Portraits of Hollywood stars Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Fred Astaire and Cary Grant hang alongside others of scientist Albert Einstein, artist Pablo Picasso and writer W.C. Fields. Shots of Kidman and Murdoch are included in the later part of the exhibition which focuses on celebrities who were captured for the glossy US-based magazine after its relaunch in 1983. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Next up: Bette Davis' take on the epoch when 1955's The Virgin Queen comes to DVD April 8. Joan Collins takes on the Elizabeth Throckmorton role Abbie Cornish has here. (USA Today -- Life)
"In the mid- to late '70s," said Bill Longen, events producer at the Castro, "you could run a Bette Davis double feature and pack the theater - and they didn't even have to be good Bette Davis pictures.". In those pre-VHS days, the business was pretty straightforward. (San Francisco Chronicle)
-A Stolen Life (1946) and Dead Ringer (1964): Bette Davis times four. In both films, she assumes the identity of her dead twin sister. (USA Today)
February 9, 2008 -- THE 1970 musical "Ap plause," though based on "All About Eve," was really all about Lauren Bacall, playing, as it were, Bette Davis. At City Center Thursday night, for the first of the show's four-night run, it was all about Christine Ebersole. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
February 7, 2008 -- 'IN HER EARLY days she had that bea tific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael," said James Agate of Lillie Langtry. I thought of this looking at the March "Hollywood Issue" of Vanity Fair. On its cover, there are six pastel pinkish, light greenish, pallid and faded-looking "movie stars" photographed by the celebrated Annie Leibovitz. But if you can identify more than one of these young dames, I'll be surprised. (Anne Hathaway... (New York Post -- Gossip)
A press release of the service stated the 2008 stamp series recognized a range of subjects as diverse as America itself, from the Chinese Lunar New Year to 20th century movie icons like Bette Davis and Frank Sinatra, to literary figures and flags of U.S. states and territories. A list of events celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in San Francisco can be found at www. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Old movies set in tropical climes, in which the men wear pith helmets and the women sarongs, with Bette Davis and George Brent always mopping their brows ... Old movies set in tropical climes, in which the men wear pith helmets and the women sarongs, with Bette Davis and George Brent always mopping their brows. (Townhall.com)
Monday February 4 2008. From hot celebs to cool cocktails our Lifestyle feature Trends keeps you in the know. (Winnipeg Sun)
Just so the reader won't forget the perils of getting involved with Vanessa, Banks has Jordan think, "She was flawed, terribly flawed, as if something inside her, a crucial defining part of her mind, were permanently broken and made her dangerous to anyone foolish enough to get close to her." Think Angelina Jolie, coming off Girl, Interrupted, doing a campy impersonation of Bette Davis. Jordan, for his part, is an equally silly and stereotyped character: a dashing womanizer who also happens to... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
ACADEMY AWARD GURU LOOKS BACK ON BEING BETTE DAVIS' OSCAR DATE, A SEAT FILLER FOR ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S HUSBAND, AND WHY THE CLASSICS ARE STILL WORTH REVISITING. By REED TUCKER. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
NOW, VOYAGER (1942): A cruise to South America becomes a voyage of self-discovery for a wealthy spinster (Bette Davis) yearning to break free of familial and societal bonds. A great film about love, sacrifice and the fickle nature of romance. (The Augusta Chronicle)
wrote on Jan 22, 2008 10:33 AM:" Right now the economic powers appear rather hyper-distressed about the possible (probable now?) recession after the hari-kari act in the Asian markets the past few days. The Federal Reserve has jumped up to knock down interest rates even before Wall St's opening bell today. The candydandydates are mouthing off -- Hills pilloring Obama; Obama bopping back; McCain in Florida tiresomely denouncing for the one hundred millionth time in recent American political... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
His first winners were Walter Brennan (supporting actor, Come and Get It, 1936) and Bette Davis (best actress, Jezebel, 1938) and his last was Barbra Streisand (best actress, Funny Girl, 1968). In 1967, the Academy honored long-time director Alfred Hitchcock with the Irving G. Thalberg Award, given in recognition for a lifetime of quality work. (Suite101.com)
Described at the beginning of this documentary as a vulnerable, lost girl, Bette Davis was also strong enough to carve out the career she wanted when Hollywood was not only a man's world but treated actors like puppets. Davis often preferred meaty roles that required her to play gutsy and abrasive women - her break-out role as Mildred in Of Human Bondage is considered the first leading-lady bitch in cinema. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Bette Davis as Jane Hudson in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. bad-drag ringlets defy ageing. (Times Online)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (at piano) with Paul Henreid and Bette Davis during a shooting break for the film "Deception," 1946. (Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences). (International Herald Tribune)
Flouncing around in hot pursuit of one man after another, her dialogue dripping with magnolia, Griffiths seems to be channeling Bette Davis in "Jezebel." Kilmer, never what anyone would call a minimalist actor, blusters and booms in a Boston Brahmin accent, then jerks and twitches and picks at himself in Ahumado's snake pit like, well, a Hollywood version of a lunatic in a snake pit. Later in the series, when he's outfitted with a white fright wig and handlebar mustache, he looks just like... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Equally relevant, the star system, nurtured by the old studio czars, had produced an array of quirky personalities -- Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, John Wayne and so forth. The biggest stars were frequently on suspension, fighting with studio czars over their assignments. (Variety)
and was later made into a movie of the same title with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer. Famous Residents. (Suite101.com)
Though the great bitches of Hollywood were dressed to kill and magnificently shallow, there was something incredibly honest about them - whether they were real, like Bette Davis, or imaginary, like her character Margo Channing in All About Eve ... Crawford always plays ladies - Bette Davis ... Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater - Bette Davis on Jayne Mansfield. (Guardian Unlimited)
BETTE DAVIS kept acting, appearing in public, showing up on Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' and at awards ceremonies, surviving, too ornery to die, too driven to sit still, too proud to recede into muted seclusion. " That's Ed Sikov, writing of the fabulous Bette, in his new biography, "Dark Victory. (Variety)
Williams guests were like the Who s Who of American Entertainers Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Griffith, Bette Davis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and Bob Newhart, to name but a few. The Christies worked with almost all of the guest artists. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Those born the same year as Linhares include actors Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, Rex Harrison and Sir Michael Redgrave, as well as British film director David Lean. All have passed on. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Keystone/Getty ImagesBette Davis, Dec. 13, 1938 ... WASHINGTON -- What do Bette Davis, flags and baseball have in common. (NBCSandiego.com, CA)
Joining the likes of Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, journalist Eric Severeid, and numerous other notable Americans, the Post Office will kick off its new stamp series this January by. celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year with the issuance of the Celebrating Lunar New Year: Year of the Rat stamp. (Newsmax)
Meanwhile the US Postal Service is honouring film actress Bette Davis next year, with a commemorative stamp to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Ten-time Oscar nominee Bette Davis will be honored next year on the 100th anniversary of her birth with a commemorative stamp. Davis, who won two Oscars, for "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938), will be the 14th star in the U.S. Postal Service's Legends of Hollywood series. (Seattle Times)
Other additions included the car-chase classic "Bullitt" (1968); "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), John Ford's last great Western; Kevin Costner's epic "Dances With Wolves" (1990); New York film noir "The Naked City" (1948); Sidney Lumet's claustrophobic courtroom drama "12 Angry Men"; Humphrey Bogart's Hollywood satire "In a Lonely Place" (1950); Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Oklahoma!" (1955); the star-studded "Grand Hotel" (1932); William Wyler's "Wuthering Heights" (1939); and... (Reuters)
Diverse Subjects Offer Broad Appeal To see the stamps, visit: High-resolution images of the stamps are available for media use only at: tm WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What do Bette Davis, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," and Latin jazz have in common ... Bette Davis Film diva Bette Davis becomes the 14th inductee into the Legends of Hollywood series on the 100th anniversary of the year of her birth. (PR Newswire)
30-day news archives. " American Scientists: Theoretical physicist John Bardeen, who co-invented the transistor; biochemist Gerty Cori, who made important discoveries that later became the basis for our knowledge of how cells use food and convert it into energy; astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose meticulous studies of spiral nebulae proved the existence of galaxies other than our own Milky Way; and chemist Linus Pauling, who determined the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules and... (Florida Today)
Bette Davis to be honored. A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to US post offices next year: it's those Bette Davis eyes. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
APOn the 100th anniversary of her birth, actress Bette Daviswill be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in the Legends of Hollywood Series ... WASHINGTON - A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, its those Bette Davis eyes. (MSNBC -- News)
WASHINGTON A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes ... The U.S. Postal Service is honouring actress Bette Davis with a stamp this year, among a string of new issues. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Bette Davis' eyes will be looking out from a stamp ... It's those Bette Davis eyes. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Holly has been cooped up in their apartment, surrounded by dirty dishes and dirty clothes, watching old movies and wishing she was Bette Davis. The inconsolable wife is not abandoned to her grief. (Toronto Star)
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