Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set DVD (1943)

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set

1943

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To commemorate Bette Davis' 100th birthday, Warner Brothers are releasing six films from her heyday on DVD for the first time. The box set features some of her best films, including: - In This Our Life: 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 to get Craig back which leads to a climatic conflict. - The Old Maid: Based on an Edith Wharton novel and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Old Maid tells the sad story of Charlotte, a woman whose circumstances force her to give up her illegitimate child and pose as the child’s "old maid" aunt, thereby facing a lifetime of maternal sacrifice. As Charlotte, Bette Davis gives one of her most nuanced performances, aging from wide-eyed girl to gray-haired martinet. Miriam Hopkins provides effective counterbalance with her portrayal of Charlotte’s effusive cousin, who raises the little girl. - All This And Heaven Too: 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). - The Great Lie: 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 the son of the heroic aviator (George Brent) that both women love. Powerful emotions rage against a backdrop of powerful music in the film that earned Astor a 1941 Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her stellar performance opposite the legendary star who always gives a tour-de-force performance. - Watch On The Rhine: 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. - Deception: 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 Karel Novak by World War II. Unexpectedly reunited with him, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer (Rains), with devastating results.

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set details

Format:	PG DVD
Starring:	Olivia De Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Miriam Hopkins, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Paul Lukas, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Directors:	Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak, Herman Shumlin
Genres:	Drama - General, Romantic, Crime, Romance
Studio:	Warner Home Video

DVD 6 discs

Name	Discs
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid	U Disc 1
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - All This, And Heaven Too	U Disc 2
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Great Lie	U Disc 3
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - In This Our Life	PG Disc 4
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Watch On The Rhine	PG Disc 5
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Deception	PG Disc 6

DVD Information

Rental release:	16 Jun 2008
Main languages:	English

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Deceptively disappointing

By plowe (6 reviews) from Northampton , 24 Jun 2012

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Deception -

Found this film to have been created for the stars of it without creating a film of any interest! great fan of Bette Davis, however can't understand why they have put this in the box set - perhaps to show how hard she can try to make a dull story anyway interesting for her fans.
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Hollywood Always Wanted Bette To Be Pretty... But She Fought For Realism !!!

By a customer , 10 May 2013

'Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set'.

I've always been a fan of the old black and white movies, especially Bette Davis.....

So when I saw the 'Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set' here for rental, I just had to watch them.

Included in the box set are:

'In This Our Life'

“Deception”

“The Great Lie”

'Watch On The Rhine'

On the whole, a very enjoyable box set of Matinee movies.
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The old maid

By blackanwhitefilmbuff (1 review) , 22 Apr 2013

Brilliant film if you like drama, passion and intrigue. Bette at her best playing the wounded, righteous spinster. Can't wait to see the other titles especially Whatever happened to Baby Jane! Really creepy!
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Watch On The Rhine

By Oldbloke (307 reviews) from Sidmouth , 23 Mar 2013

As the Nazis complete their takeover of Europe, an anti-fascist freedom fighter flees with his American wife and their three children to the safety of her mother's stately pile on the outskirts of Washington. But almost immediately a new threat emerges from one of her houseguests. Pious, wordy, forgotten drama is very much of it's time and cannot overcome it's stage origins, but there's no doubting the power of Paul Lukas' Oscar winning perfomance and George Coulouris underplays marvellously as a scheming Romanian Count Teck.
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Deceptively disappointing

By plowe (6 reviews) from Northampton , 24 Jun 2012

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Deception -

Found this film to have been created for the stars of it without creating a film of any interest! great fan of Bette Davis, however can't understand why they have put this in the box set - perhaps to show how hard she can try to make a dull story anyway interesting for her fans.
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About the Old Maid

By a customer from Witham , 24 Jul 2010

Another fabulous movie that suits Bette Davis perfectly. Great movie for a rainy afternoon with a storyline from the great black and white era. A must to view for anyone that like Ms Davis.
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