By the end of the 1960’s, Bette Davis big screen appearances were increasingly rare. Released in 1970, Connecting Rooms explores the relationship between three people who have rooms in a rundown London boarding house. Davis plays Wanda Fleming, a lonely…
When we first meet her, Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is a shy spinster, living in her family’s stately Boston mansion under the tyrannical thumb of her elderly mother (Gladys Cooper). Charlotte was a late child whom her mother admits was…
Bette Davis (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) teamed for the second time with Director William Wyler for an adaptation of the of the W. Somerset Maugham play The Letter. A critical and box-office hit, the film was nominated for seven…
It’s been widely reported that Bette Davis (All About Eve) wanted to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. When the role went to Vivian Leigh, she was very disappointed. Sometimes described as a consolation prize, Davis played Julie…
With the surprise box office success of 1962’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, director Robert Aldrich was hoping lightning would strike twice when he reunited the two stars for Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte…
The first of three Hollywood adaptations of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, the film served to launch Bette Davis to stardom. Davis had already made twenty-two films, all of them largely forgettable, when the role of cruel and manipulative…
Largely regarded as a Camp classic largely because of the well documented feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Is actually a rather innovative horror film reminiscent of Psycho. Beyond that, the film dared to…
20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 mins. | NR If Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard offers a brilliant glimpse of washed up Hollywood, All About Eve is the best example of a stars struggle to stay at the top of…