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Author
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This volume contains detailed analyses of Bette Davis' top 12 films spanning 1938 to 1987 and The Letter, All About Eve, The Little Foxes, Jezebel, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Whales of August. Each film is discussed with examination of its script, direction, camerawork and performances, particularly as they relate to Davis's work"--Provided by publisher.
5) This 'n that
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1987, a collection of anecdotes as well as opinions pro and con on a wide range of subjects by legendary actress Bette Davis--now in ebook for the first time!
A woman of strong appetites and opinions, Bette Davis minces no words. In frank, no nonsense terms she talks about the stroke that nearly killed her, and inspires us with the story of her subsequent recovery from cancer--a lively and encouraging account shot through...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve. Off-camera, Bette Davis survived four disastrous marriages and earned a larger-than-life professional reputation as an actress to be reckoned with. In this extraordinary biography, fans and film historians will discover a different, darker side of Bette Davis: a woman beset with scarring personal...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Draws on final-decade interviews to reveal the public and private lives of the iconic Hollywood actress, in a portrait that discusses her four marriages and her feelings about her daughter's uncomplimentary account of their relationship.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
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,...
14) Bette Davis
Author
Series
Publisher
Faber and Faber, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful ... But it was her edge that made her memorable-her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to others."
Bette Davis was the commanding figure of the great era of Hollywood stardom, with a drive and energy that put her contemporaries in the shade. She played...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Draws on final-decade interviews to reveal the public and private lives of the iconic Hollywood actress, in a portrait that discusses her four marriages and her feelings about her daughter's uncomplimentary account of their relationship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Why has fabulous Bette Davis - the best known face in the world behind Roosevelt and Hitler - been kidnapped not once, not twice, but three times? What in the world does this star abduction have to do with Third Reich designs on America's plans for a top-secret superbomber? And who else but Hollywood private eye Toby Peters - always short of a nightmare, far from a dream - to plunge into his seventeenth and most hair-raising adventure in pursuit of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Apprentice Shop Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The first African-American nurse in the United States. A woman who rallied lady pilots during World War II. A champion paralympic skier. These and 22 other stories take students through the history of Massachusetts.
