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With her line, “Fasten your seatbelts”, Bette Davis took second place at the American Film Institute’s list of top 100 movie lines. Her lines “ It’s going to be a bumpy night.”, “Oh Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon”, “ We have the stars.”; and “What a dump” from All about Eve, Now, Voyager, and Beyond the Forest respectively, were also included in the list.
She was cast in roles that she found unacceptable for many years. She took off to England when the casting continued to displease her. She only returned to the U.S. when Jack Warner (of Warner Bros.) sued her for breach of contract. Of course, she began getting much finer roles after her return to honor the remainder of her contract. Bette Davis married four times, bore one child and adopted two more. She also wrote three autobiographies that lean on each other as chronologies and updates of each other.
Bette Davis also had her rivalries, specifically those with fellow star, Joan Crawford. Joan was then widow to Pepsi Cola president and CEO Alfred Steele, during the filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. She so disliked Joan that she commissioned a Coca Cola machine to be brought to the set. Joan returned the favor by weighting her pockets for scenes in which Bette’s character had to lift and drag Joan’s.
Have you seen that particular movie? If you have, then you have seen that beyond the stunning performance, was a palatable disdain that fed or carried the character acting. I also know that you have seen the best in pain, repression, suppression, elation, and liberation in Bette Davis’ acting and eyes if you have seen any of Bette’s other films.
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