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All About Eve review by from Sheffield, England

They don't make 'em like this anymore. 26 February 2004
...onderful performances: George Sanders is scathing as critic Addison de Witt and Bette Davis is wonderful as ageing theatre star Margo Channing. The dialogue is beautifully... Read customer review

Now Voyager review by A customer from Leeds, England

Wow Voyager! 22 February 2006
...ed was Paul Heinred lighting two cigarettes at the same time and passing one to Bette Davis! It was, in its time, the most provocative and sexy scene in the movies(I know,... Read customer review

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid review by Bridgepav from LONDON

The Old Maid 10 September 2008
...If you love Bette Davis, this is one for you. Typical hard faced, but gentle inside performance. Then type that Davis knows best. An early film, and fantastic for perio... Read customer review

Bette Davis - filmography

Vito (2011)
Starring: Lily Tomlin, Judy Garland, Bette Midler
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
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The story of Vito Russo, founding father of the gay liberation movement, author of "The Celluloid Closet," and vociferous AIDS activist in the 1980s.

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The Anniversary on DVD (1968)
Starring: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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A widowed mother with three sons. Once a year, on her wedding anniversary, the entire family gathers to pay her respect - and to endure her cold sarcasm and malicious interference in their lives.

70% from 523 members

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Bette Davis plays former child star 'Baby' Jane Hudson who is taking care of her wheelchair bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), herself once a leading movie star whose career eclipsed her sister Jane when they became adults. Now both forgotten ageing relics of old Hollywood, the sisters live ..read more »

86% from 32 members
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The Scapegoat (1959)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
Director: Robert Hamer
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In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he assumes is that of his double, Count Jacques de Gue, ..read more »

40% from 3 members
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All About Eve - Blu-ray (1950)
Starring: Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »

83% from 13 members
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All About Eve on DVD (1950)
Starring: Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »

76% from 10,069 members

Mr Skeffington on DVD (1944)
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Director: Vincent Sherman
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When her brother is found to have embezzeld the Skeffington Bank, Fanny Trellis (Davis) finds herself marrying the owner to save her brother...

72% from 594 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - In ... on DVD (1943)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: John Huston
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The tale of two sisters, Stanley (Bette Davis) and Roy (Olivia de Havilland) Timberlake. When Stanley runs off with Roy's husband, she soon drives him to suicide. Upon her return home she finds that Roy has fallen in love with her ex-fiancé, Craig. Stanley, being a selfish and jealous woman, tries ..read more »

75% from 161 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Dec... on DVD (1943)
Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Director: Irving Rapper
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The three stars (Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains) and director (Irving Rapper) of Now Voyager reunite for this glamorous, angst-ridden melodrama. Based on Louis Verneuil’s 1928 play Jealousy, the film tells the story of pianist Christine Radcliffe separated from her great love, cellist ..read more »

74% from 170 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Wat... on DVD (1943)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: Edmund Goulding, Herman Shumlin, Anatole Litvak
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An adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play, Bette Davis and Paul Lukas are German anti-Nazi underground leaders who flee the country, only to be pursued to the U.S. by Nazi agents.

71% from 137 members

Now Voyager on DVD (1942)
Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Director: Irving Rapper
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The love story of Charolette Vale, a middle-aged spinstress who suffers a nervous breakdown because of her domineering mother and is finally freed after a brief love affair with Jerry, a man she meets while on a cruise after spending time in a sanitarium...

79% from 1,502 member

James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.... on DVD (1941)
Starring: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Jack Carson
Director: Virginia Mayo, William Keighley
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Cagney plays charter pilot Steve Collins, a man in need of a fast buck in order to stop his plane being repossessed. His latest charter is heiress Joan Winfield (Bette Davis), who is eloping to Las Vegas with her boyfriend Allen Brice (Jack Carson). When Steve finds out that her millionaire dad is ..read more »

72% from 45 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The... on DVD (1941)
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Director: Edmund Goulding
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Tempestuous, ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac (Mary Astor) shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen (Bette Davis) and her little boy Pete. Sandra’s chic New York friends can’t imagine what the two women have in common. What they don’t know is that Pete is actually Sandra’s son – and ..read more »

73% from 154 members

The Letter on DVD (1940)
Starring: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
Director: William Wyler
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William Wyler directs an unscupulously nasty Bette Davis who is at her compulsive best in Somerset Maugham's celebrated melodrama. Set in the ex- British colony of Malaya, while her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall), is away on a business trip inspecting his rubber plantation, Leslie Crosbie (Bette ..read more »

70% from 805 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - All... on DVD (1940)
Starring: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
Director: Anatole Litvak
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The film tells the story of a governess, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (Bette Davis) who is accused of having an affair with her employer, the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer), and who is then accused of complicity in the murder of his wife, the Duchesse de Praslin (Barbara O'Neil).

75% from 170 members

Dark Victory on DVD (1939)
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
Director: Edmund Goulding
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Moving story of a young heiress who attempts to live life to the full when she finds out she is dying from a brain tumour. Based on the play written by George Emerson Brewer Jr and Bertram Bloch.

72% from 824 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The... on DVD (1939)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak, Herman Shumlin
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Delia breaks her engagement to Clem, in favor of wealthy Jim. Cousin Charlotte comforts Clem, and becomes pregnant. But Clem dies in the war before he can marry her, and Charlotte intends to raise her daughter alone. But in spiteful jealousy, Delia takes Charlotte's child from her, and raises her ..read more »

79% from 281 members

Jezebel (1938)
Starring: Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay
Director: William Wyler
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Set in the antebellum South, William Wyler's JEZEBEL centres on high society beauty Julie Marsden. Julie first arrives on horseback, then enters her home flamboyantly hooking the long flowing train of her dress with her riding crop and hoisting it to her shoulders. Julie is not just high-spirited-..read more »

77% from 53 members
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Marked Woman (1937)
Starring: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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A crusading DA persuades a clip joint "party girl" to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory "parties."

66% from 3 members
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Bette Davis facts

5 most recent films

Vito - 3 stars
The Anniversary - 3.5 stars
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 4.5 stars
The Scapegoat - 2.0 stars
All About Eve - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Now Voyager - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid - 4.0 stars
Jezebel - 4.0 stars
All About Eve - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - In This Our Life - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Vito - 3 stars
The Scapegoat - 2.0 stars
Marked Woman - 3.5 stars
James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.2 - The Bride Came C.O.D - 3.5 stars
All About Eve - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

George Brent - 6 times - show films
Claude Rains - 5 times - show films
Paul Henreid - 4 times - show films
Hattie McDaniel - 4 times - show films
Charles Boyer - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Edmund Goulding - 4 times - show films
Anatole Litvak - 3 times - show films
William Wyler - 2 times - show films
Herman Shumlin - 2 times - show films
Irving Rapper - 2 times - show films