![Two's Company [Original Broadway Cast]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 "Two's Company [Original Broadway Cast]")
1978
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Davis was preparing to return to New York when actor George Arliss chose Davis for the lead female role in the Warner Bros. picture The Man Who Played God (1932). For the rest of her life, Davis credited him with helping her achieve her "break" in Hollywood.
- Ith Traherne: Dark Victory (1939) — 7.5
- IE Marsden: Jezebel (1938) — 7.5
- Gie Cutler: The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) — 7.6
- Lie Crosbie: The Letter (1940) — 7.6
- Rlotte Hollis: Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) — 7.6
- NY Trellis: Mr. Skeffington (1944) — 7.7
- Rlotte Vale: Now, Voyager (1942) — 7.9
- Ina Giddens: The Little Foxes (1941) — 8.0
- Y Jane Hudson: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) — 8.1
- Go Channing: All About Eve (1950) — 8.2
Judy is a wealthy daughter of a New York billionaire, spending her time and money on frivolous things like alcohol, racehorses, and fancy cars. However, she soon finds out that she has a brain tumor, leaving her with barely a year left to live. Judy's doctor, Fred Steele, pretends that her glioma surgery was successful. Nevertheless, when she finds...
Set in pre-Civil War New Orleans, this film has dominating Southern woman, Julie Marsden, who cannot abide her man not fulfilling her slightest whims. As revenge for her fiancé's audacity, she dons a red gown to the Olympus Ball, a terrible faux pas since "virgin" women are required to dress in only white. After the dance, Pres breaks up with her, ...
Maggie is an unmarried secretary, working for famous NYC radio star, Sheridan Whiteside. The tale is set mainly in the backwoods of Ohio, where she buckles under her boss' demands. Maggie desires the town journalist, Bert Jefferson, but Sheridan tries to hamper the couple's engagement — just because he loves how great an assistant she is. RELATED: ...
Somewhere in South-East Asia, Leslie Crosbie is accused of murdering her own servant, Geoff Hammond. She goes to jail, but everyone expects her to be released (colonial sentiments leaning heavily towards white people at the time.) However, things start to get a bit dicey for Leslie when her own lawyer, Howard Joyce, tries to prove her guilt, rather...
Many critics condemned this movie as a dilute solution of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; one of them even referred to it as "grisly, pretentious, disgusting, and profoundly annoying." At any rate, it remains Bette Davis' last great accomplishment, playing an unmarried old woman, whom everyone believes murdered the man she was having an affair wi...
Bette had a penchant for playing roles involving vain, beautiful women who later end up (inevitably) alone. Fanny Trellis is one of those characters. She is forced to marry the wealthy Job Skeffington in order to save her brother, but adores the amenities that arrive with her new station. RELATED: Katherine Hepburn: 10 Most Iconic Roles, Ranked (Ac...
Charlotte Vale is a lonely, depressed woman whose total absence of self-esteem can be attributed to her horribly abusive mother (who never wanted a daughter.) She obtains some respite when she undergoes psychiatric treatment, far away from her mother, even going on a cruise to have some much-needed fun. On board, Charlotte encounters Jerry Durrance...
The Little Foxes broke all records by receiving nine Academy Awardnominations (and then winning none of them). Bette plays a Southern woman, Regina Hubbard, who fights tooth and nail to obtain the same legal recognition as her brothers. Even though they are rich enough on their own, Regina struggles to make ends meet with a sick husband to boot. It...
Baby Jane Hudson was Bette Davis' resounding comeback to Hollywood, obtaining almost universal acclaim for her performance. A tale of two sisters, Baby Jane and Blanche have been competing with each other since they were kids. Blanche is later paralyzed in a car accident, which everyone believes is her sister's fault. RELATED: The Oscars: 5 Times T...
All About Eveis, without question, the single greatest on-screen performance of Bette Davis' career (and one of the greatest in all cinema.) Although her loss at the Oscars was a major upset, it did not diminish her role as Margo Channing, the paranoid, alcoholic Queen of Broadway. Margo is a true actress, born and bred in the theater, and commands...
- ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) Director and writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Starring Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm. “All About Eve” is as close to perfect that a movie can get.
- NOW, VOYAGER (1942) Director: Irving Rapper. Writer: Casey Robinson. Starring Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper. “Now, Voyager” remains one of Davis’ most beloved films and her character of Charlotte Vale is still an inspiration for many to this day.
- WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE (1962) Director: Robert Aldrich. Writer: Lukas Heller. Starring Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy. The pairing of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on this film would become the stuff of legend.
- OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1934) Director: John Cromwell. Writers: Lester Cohen, W. Somerset Maugham. Starring Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Alan Hale. Davis began her film career in 1931 and appeared in roughly 20 films before she found her breakthrough role three years later in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel.
To honor Bette Davis' iconic career and legendary life, Stacker scoured newspaper articles, magazine profiles, film archives, award ceremony recordings, and television clips to find 25 elements of Davis' biography that you may not know. While her death was more than three decades ago, the actor's legend stretches on as utterly timeless and ...
Apr 5, 2016 · A woman who refused to conform to what an actress should be ended up not only being one of the best actresses of all time, but a model for what actresses in the future could be. Davis was the ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Career Highlights. In 1934, Warner Brothers loaned Davis to RKO Pictures for Of Human Bondage, a drama based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Davis received her first Academy Award nomination...
Bette Davis. Actress: All About Eve. Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney.
