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  • All About Eve
  • All About Eve review by from Sheffield, England
    Rated - 5 stars 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...  
  • Death On The Nile
  • Death On The Nile review by KATHERINEofARROGANCEe from HARROW
    Rated - 4 stars 26 April 2004
    ... Kennedy, Jane Birkin, Olivia Hussey & Angela Lansbury. But best of all are Bette Davis & Maggie Smith, who spit venom at each other in a couple of memorable scene...  
  • Blue Lamp, The / The Nanny
  • Blue Lamp, The / The Nanny review by from London
    Rated - 3 stars Solid entertainment 10 August 2004
    ...of west London and the long-demolished White City stadium too. The Nanny has Bette Davis in the title role. She is hated by her young charge who insists that she wants ...  

Bette Davis - filmography


  • Return From Witch Mountain on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Christopher Lee
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this sequel to ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN, Tia and Tony, the two human-looking, teenage extraterrestrials from the first film, return to Earth for a vacation. The siblings have telepathic and telekinetic powers: they can read each others' minds, and mentally move objects at will. When the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 518 members
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  • Death On The Nile on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Simon MacCorkindale,  Jack Warden,  Angela Lansbury
    Director: John Guillermin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A deluxe version of Agatha Christie's favourite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her Murder on the Orient Express. Set aboard a steamship cruising down the Nile, an extremely unpopular heiress is murdered and everyone on the ship is suspect. The passengers include the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 989 members
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  • Madame Sin (1971)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Robert Wagner
    Director: David Green
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In a lovely old castle on a Scottish island lives Madame Sin. She can arrange revolutions, assassinations, and can help to tumble monarchies!
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 5 members
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  • Blue Lamp, The / The Nanny on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Bette Davis,  Bette Davis
    Director: Basil Dearden,  Seth Holt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A double bill of two British crime thrillers.THE BLUE LAMP: In a chilling role, Dirk Bogarde plays a young criminal who kills a policeman on the brink of retirement (Jack Warner in the role of Inspector Dixon) after a bungled robbery. After another botched robbery and another murder, a huge manhunt ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 693 members
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  • The Nanny on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Jill Bennett,  Bette Davis,  Bette Davis
    Director: Seth Holt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joey is a troubled boy accused of drowning his little sister in a bathtub and institutionalised, though he claims the family's old, trusted Nanny is the killer. When his return is followed by the deaths of his aunt and mother, Joey is again a prime suspect. Based on Evelyn Piper's novel, THE NANNY ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 332 members
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  • Pocketful Of Miracles on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Glenn Ford
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Annie (Bette Davis), an ageing apple-seller, passes herself off as a woman of wealth in order to impress her daughter's fiance. Young Louise (Ann-Margret) has just returned from years in Spain and hopes to marry into the well to-do family of a Count. Assisting Annie in her comic charade is a motley ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 281 members
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  • The Virgin Queen on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Joan Coliins
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bette Davis gives her second memorable performance as Queen Elizabeth I in this swashbuckling historical drama that also features Joan Collins in an early screen performance. It's the story of the ageing Queen's attraction to handsome Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) and her bitter clash with a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 209 members
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  • On Moonlight Bay (1951)
    Starring: Doris Day,  Gordon MacRae,  Billy Gray
    Director: Bette Davis,  Roy del Ruth
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 40 members
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  • All About Eve on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Anne Baxter
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 8,171 members
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  • The Letter on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Herbert Marshall
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
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  • Dark Victory on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  George Brent
    Director: Edmund Goulding
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 640 members
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  • Jezebel (1938)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Bette Davis,  Bette Davis
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Set in the antebellum South, William Wyler�s JEZEBEL centers 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-..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 39 members
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  • The Petrified Forest (1936)
    Starring: Leslie Howard,  Bette Davis,  Bette Davis
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Certificate: Certificate:
    Leslie Howard plays a perfect gentleman--a lonely intellectual in search of meaning. When he lands in a deserted café, he finds what he's looking for in the form of young Bette Davis, whose character yearns for the artistic climate of gay Paris. But both Howard and Davis are in for a bumpy ride ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 259 members
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  • Of Human Bondage on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Leslie Howard,  Bette Davis,  Bette Davis
    Director: John Cromwell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Cromwell (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, THE GODDESS) brings W. Somerset Maugham's novel and Bette Davis's career to life with the spellbinding drama OF HUMAN BONDAGE. Having unsuccessfully tried his hand at painting in Paris, Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) returns home to London. Despite his clubfoot, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 533 members
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  • Madame Sin to Watch Now (1971)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Denholm Elliott
    Director: David Green
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 90 minutes
    In a lovely old castle on a Scottish island lives Madame Sin. She can arrange revolutions, assassinations, and can help to tumble monarchies!
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Of Human Bondage to Watch Now (1934)
    Starring: Leslie Howard,  Bette Davis,  Bette Davis
    Director: John Cromwell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 83 minutes
    John Cromwell (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, THE GODDESS) brings W. Somerset Maugham's novel and Bette Davis's career to life with the spellbinding drama OF HUMAN BONDAGE. Having unsuccessfully tried his hand at painting in Paris, Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) returns home to London. Despite his clubfoot, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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Bette Davis facts

5 most recent films

Never Apologize - 3.0 stars
The Whales of August - 3.0 stars
The Watcher In The Woods - 3.0 stars
Return From Witch Mountain - 3.0 stars
Death On The Nile - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Now Voyager - 4.0 stars
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid - 4.0 stars
All About Eve - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Gold Diggers of Broadway - 0.5 stars
Madame Sin - 2.5 stars
The Whales of August - 3.0 stars
James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.2 - The Bridge Came C.O.D/The Fighting 69th/Torrid Zone/The West Point Story - 3.0 stars
On The Avenue - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bette Davis - 34 times - show films
George Brent - 7 times - show films
Olivia De Havilland - 6 times - show films
Claude Rains - 6 times - show films
Paul Henreid - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roy del Ruth - 5 times - show films
Edmund Goulding - 5 times - show films
Anatole Litvak - 4 times - show films
William Wyler - 3 times - show films
Virginia Mayo - 3 times - show films