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Miss D and Me

Author : Kathryn Sermak
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316507822
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Miss D and Me written by Kathryn Sermak and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful women, one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning. As Bette Davis aged she was looking for an assistant, but she found something more than that in Kathryn: a loyal and loving buddy, a co-conspirator in her jokes and schemes, and a competent assistant whom she trained never to miss a detail. But Miss D had strict rules for Kathryn about everything from how to eat a salad to how to wear her hair...even the spelling of Kathryn's name was changed (adding the "y") per Miss D's request. Throughout their time together, the two grew incredibly close, and Kathryn had a front-row seat to the larger-than-life Davis's career renaissance in her later years, as well as to the humiliating public betrayal that nearly killed Miss D. The frame of this story is a four-day road trip Kathryn and Davis took from Biarritz to Paris, during which they disentangled their ferocious dependency. Miss D and Me is a window into the world of the unique and formidable Bette Davis, told by the person who perhaps knew her best of all.

Bette Davis

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762436880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Bette Davis written by Richard Schickel and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star,” Bette Davis once said. Let's just say in Hollywood she was considered the ultimate star. The Academy Award-winning actress was one of the movies' most riveting and volatile personalities both on and off the screen. She comes to life in the pages of this lavish, fully illustrated tribute produced in conjunction with her estate. Bette Davis remains one of the most acclaimed and well-known stars in the history of film. Breaking new ground for women, she was a fighter who took on the Hollywood establishment at the drop of a dime. She reveled in lifelong feuds (such as with arch nemesis and co-star Joan Crawford). She was a mother, wife, and friend. She was also a no-nonsense New Englander who happened to have more talent than the movies seemed able to contain. Her personality leapt off the screen and earned her an unprecedented number of high-profile nominations and awards for her work in films like Jezebel, Dark Victory, All About Eve, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As the epitaph on Davis's tombstone reads, “She did it the hard way.” Through a biography, comprehensive filmography, and hundreds of rare photos, readers will find out why.

Dark Victory

Author : Ed Sikov
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805088632
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Dark Victory written by Ed Sikov and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Bette Davis, focusing on her acting career, drawing from interviews with friends, directors, and admirers, archival research, and a new look at her films to provide insights into her personal and professional life.

The Films of Bette Davis

Author : Gene Ringgold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Bette Davis written by Gene Ringgold and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This 'n That

Author : Bette Davis
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316441260
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book This 'n That written by Bette Davis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, a collection of anecdotes as well as opinions pro and con on a wide range of subjects by legendary actress Bette Davis--now in ebook for the first time! A woman of strong appetites and opinions, Bette Davis minces no words. In frank, no nonsense terms she talks about the stroke that nearly killed her, and inspires us with the story of her subsequent recovery from cancer--a lively and encouraging account shot through with the star's unique blend of spunk and wit. Davis was famous for being as unsparing of herself as she was of others. Among the "others" of this book are President Ronald Reagan, who was a contract player at Warner Bros. when she was; Joan Crawford, her costar in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; Humphrey Bogart; Marilyn Monroe; Elizabeth Taylor; and Helen Hayes, Bette's costar in her first film after her illness, Murder with Mirrors. She also talks about her deep friendship with her longtime assistant, Kathryn Sermak, who nursed Davis back to health after her stroke and ushered her back into acting when Davis's doctors thought all hope was lost. As Davis says, "If everyone likes you, you're doing your job wrong." This is a unique and controversial book by one of the most incandescent and unconventional acting talents of all time, as magnetic and supremely talented as the lady herself.

On Stage with Bette Davis

Author : Kevin Lane Dearinger
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476688133
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book On Stage with Bette Davis written by Kevin Lane Dearinger and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities. Bette Davis was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and twice won the Best Actress award, starring in classics like Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many more. In 1974, the living legend agreed to star in Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn in Green. Expectations were high, but Miss Moffat opened and then abruptly closed, leading theatre gossips to speculate on what went wrong. Early in his career, Kevin Lane Dearinger, a young actor who had recently relocated to New York, landed a minor role in Miss Moffat. Inexperienced and unsure of himself, he kept a journal of his observations and experiences throughout production. He observed the older and more seasoned Miss Davis, who seemed determined to remain clear-headed despite the unfolding calamity. In this book, Dearinger revisits his journal to reflect on his own life, a fated stage production, his experience with an entertainment legend and a bygone era of Broadway.

The Lonely Life

Author : Bette Davis
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316441295
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Lonely Life written by Bette Davis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time, and updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death. As Davis says in the opening lines of her classic memoir: "I have always been driven by some distant music--a battle hymn, no doubt--for I have been at war from the beginning. I rode into the field with sword gleaming and standard flying. I was going to conquer the world." A bold, unapologetic book by a unique and formidable woman, The Lonely Life details the first fifty-plus years of Davis's life--her Yankee childhood, her rise to stardom in Hollywood, the birth of her beloved children, and the uncompromising choices she made along the way to succeed. The book was updated with new material in the 1980s, bringing the story up to the end of Davis's life--all the heartbreak, all the drama, and all the love she experienced at every stage of her extraordinary life. The Lonely Life proves conclusively that the legendary image of Bette Davis is not a fable but a marvelous reality.

Bette Davis Black and White

Author : Julia A. Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022681386X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Bette Davis Black and White written by Julia A. Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Black and white -- Little Foxes and little brown wrens -- The poetics of color in Jezebel -- Melodramas of blood in In This Our Life -- The whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Bette Davis black and white.

Bette Davis

Author : Peter McNally
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786434996
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Bette Davis written by Peter McNally and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bette Davis, whose career spanned almost 50 years and covered theatre, radio, TV and motion pictures, was at one time the first lady of the big screen. Working with such storied performers as Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, and Joan Crawford, and directors Edmund Goulding, William Wyler and Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis provided some of the most memorable performances in movie history. This volume contains detailed analyses of Bette Davis' top twelve films spanning 1938 to 1987 and including The Letter, All About Eve, The Little Foxes, Jezebel, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Whales of August. Each film is discussed in depth, with an examination of its script, direction, camerawork and performances, particularly as they relate to Davis's work. A second group of films, memorable largely for Davis's performance rather than the overall success of the work, are also examined. Special emphasis is placed on the way Davis viewed her own work as well as the detrimental effect her devotion to her career had on her personal life. Appendices contain a list of her marriages and children; her Oscar nominations; a discussion of Davis's missed opportunities; and a partial chronology of her films.

Mother Goddam

Author : Whitney Stine
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425041192
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Mother Goddam written by Whitney Stine and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1978-09-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847396984
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Walked Home Alone written by Charlotte Chandler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Just this short list of Bette Davis' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history. Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis' life, this biography draws heavily on the actresses own words. Looking back over the decades, from her teenage decision to become an actress to the pain and outrage over her daughter's bitter portrayal of her, Davis speaks with extraordinary candour. She explains how her father's abandonment of her a child reverberated through her four marriages, and discusses the persistent Hollywood legend that she was difficult to work with. Immersing readers in the drama and glamour of movie-making's golden age, The Girl Who Walked Home Alone is a startling portrait of an enduring icon.

The Bette Davis Club

Author : Jane Lotter
Publisher : Center Point
ISBN 13 : 9781628999365
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Bette Davis Club written by Jane Lotter and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Margo's niece becomes a runaway bride --taking with her a family heirloom--her mother offers Margo fifty grand to retrieve her spoiled daughter and the invaluable property she stole. Together with the jilted and justifiably crabby fiancé, Margo sets out in a borrowed 1955 red MG on a cross-country chase and finds herself along the way"--

Fasten Your Seat Belts

Author : Lawrence J. Quirk
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062883054
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Fasten Your Seat Belts written by Lawrence J. Quirk and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating, comprehensive biography of Bette Davis, one of the most electrifying Hollywood stars ever to grace the silver screen. With a career spanning six decades and more than eighty films, Bette Davis is synonymous with Hollywood legend. From her incandescent performance as Margo Channing in All About Eve, to her terrifying, psychopathic Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Davis generated electricity wherever she appeared, whatever she did—and not just on the silver screen. Her personal life was as passionate as her career and was so fiery that it eventually consumed her. In this landmark biography, Lawrence J. Quirk takes us behind the scenes of all of Davis’s movies, from her early unpromising roles, to her commanding presence at the pinnacle of stardom, to her degrading exploitation in horror films at the end of her career. Quirk delves into Davis’s four unhappy marriages, as well as her frosty, manipulative relationships with her three children. Also revealed are her many affairs through the years with leading men, bit players, servicemen during World War II, and, very late in her life, much younger men, who repaid her by using her and deserting her. Intense, volatile, ruled often by her emotions, Bette Davis was described by one critic as "a force of nature that could find no ordinary outlet." Fasten Your Seat Belts brilliantly explores the life and career of Bette Davis to show us the fascinating original she was.

Bette Davis

Author : Roy Moseley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Bette Davis written by Roy Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on their fifteen years of friendship, a companion of the late, renowned actress details the life of a legend, providing previously unheard stories and the actress's opinions on those with whom she worked.

Bette Davis Speaks

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569800669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Bette Davis Speaks written by Boze Hadleigh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bette Davis's career boasted both quality and quantity. She was a box-office superstar and a consummate actress. In this, the first interview book with the late legend, Bette Davis discusses her "lonely life" with four husbands, her costars and rivals, and shares her regrets over certain failed relationships, flop movies, and the "hell" of growing older. of photos.

Bette & Joan

Author : Shaun Considine
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631681079
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Bette & Joan written by Shaun Considine and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford follows Hollywood's most epic rivalry throughout their careers. They only worked together once, in the classic spine-chiller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" and their violent hatred of each other as rival sisters was no act. In real life they fought over as many man as they did film roles. The story of these two dueling divas is hilarious, monstrous, and tragic, and Shaun Considine’s account of it is exhaustive, explosive, and unsparing. “Rip-roaring. A definite ten.” - New York Magazine.

"I'd Love to Kiss You..."

Author : Whitney Stine
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 9781501196492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book "I'd Love to Kiss You..." written by Whitney Stine and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitney Stine, author of the bestseller on Davis’s film career, Mother Goddam, has created the ultimate Bette Davis book. Told in her own words, I’d Love to Kiss You… is a priceless collection of conversations and photographs gathered over the course of the actress and author’s nearly twenty-year friendship. After meeting in 1972, Whitney Stine and Bette Davis developed a friendship that flourished into Whitney recording the uninhibited conversations the duo had over the years about Bette’s co-stars, lovers, husbands, and career. As the female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first woman to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, and more than 100 acting credits over her 50-year career, Bette shares an abundance of wisdom and humor in this tell-all about her life as a critically acclaimed actress. Illustrated with exclusive photographs and told in with utter candor about her tempestuous affairs—with Howard Hughes, William Wyler, and George Brent among them—as well as opinions on friends, family, and colleagues, such as Audrey Hepburn and Helen Hayes, this retelling of Bette’s fabulous stories and tantalizing experiences is a passionate account, right from her heart, of her unforgettable career and life.