Bette Davis Birthday

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Apr 5th, 2008
2008
Apr 5

Happy 100th Birthday

Bette Davis!

 

 

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Tart-tongued and independent, Bette Davis was one of America’s biggest movies stars in the years surrounding World War II. After several supporting roles in the early 1930s, she began getting more notice and bigger roles in such films as Of Human Bondage (1934) and Dangerous (1935, for which she won an Oscar). In 1938 she won another Oscar for Jezebel (with Henry Fonda), and throughout the 1940s and ’50s appeared in mostly dramas and costumers (including a memorable 1955 turn as Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen). Not a typical screen beauty, Davis made up for it with spunk and flamboyance, and off-screen she earned a reputation as a “difficult” star. During the 1960s her career was revived somewhat by a string of horror movies, including What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, in which she played opposite fellow screen legend Joan Crawford. Late in her career she made television movies, winning three Emmy awards between 1979 and 1983.

 

Davis’s tombstone reads: “She did it the hard way”… In All About Eve (1950) she utters the famous line, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” — Source: Who2 Biography

 

 

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Crypt of Bette Davis at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills

 

 

“The Bold and the Bad and the Bumpy Nights,”

New York Times, March 30, 2008 

 

 

Today is also the birthday of Jim Shippee, a very dear friend of mine. I won’t reveal his age but I believe he is a few years younger than Ms. Davis and not as bitchy.

Happy Birthday Jim!

 

 

Bette Davis on TCM

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Apr 5th, 2008
2008
Apr 5

Bette Davis Birthday Schedule on

Turner Classic Movies

  
Today, in celebration of Bette Davis’ 100th Birthday, TCM is showing the following schedule of her films.
Enjoy!  

 

(all times are Pacific)
3:00 AM Cabin In The Cotton, The (1932)
  A sharecropper fighting for better working conditions succumbs to the boss’s seductive daughter. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC
4:30 AM Petrified Forest, The (1936)
  An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC
6:00 AM Corn Is Green, The (1945)
  A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford. Cast: Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-114 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
8:00 AM Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941)
  A pilot and a temperamental heiress are stranded in the desert together. Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Harry Davenport. Dir: William Keighley. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC
9:45 AM Letter, The (1940)
  A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson. Dir: William Wyler. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:30 AM Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
  Elizabeth I’s love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom. Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-106 mins, TV-G, CC
1:30 PM Now, Voyager (1942)
  A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
3:30 PM Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2005)
  TCM original documentary that explores the life and career of legendary actress Bette Davis. BW-88 mins, TV-14, CC
5:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
  An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:30 PM Jezebel (1938)
  A tempestuous Southern belle’s willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fay Bainter. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
9:30 PM Dark Victory (1939)
  A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
11:30 PM Dangerous (1935)
  A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress he’s fallen in love with. Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-79 mins, TV-G
1:00 AM Pocketful Of Miracles (1961)
  A good-hearted gangster turns an old apple seller into a society matron so she can impress her daughter. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange. Dir: Frank Capra. C-137 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

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