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Happy 100 Bette Davis

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2008-04-04 22:41:27 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
Bette Davis would have been 100-years-old this Saturday April the 5th and I just wish (I wish ) I could have met her in my life. I wouldn't have cared if she hollered at me, made me pull her anti-aging tape straps under her wig, blew cigarette smoke in my face or crisply informed me that my apartment was a "dump" -- whatever -- I'd take abuse...
 
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Centennial Tributes: Bette Davis: Part I

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2008-04-05 06:07:00 by odienator in Edward Copeland on Film
...better known as Bette, was born 100 years ago today. In her 81 years on Earth, she accumulated more than 100 film and television roles, 10 Oscar nominations, four husbands, two Oscars, one Emmy and lots of enemies. Her career began with The Bad Sister and ended 68 years later with a Wicked Stepmother . She appeared in melodramas, horror...
 
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Bette Davis at 100: The Courage to be Wrong

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2008-04-05 00:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
Bette Davis on April 5, 1941, the occasion of her 33rd birthday Many of you (or at least some) may have noticed I don't really do tributes here at Cinema Styles . When it's someone's birthday or an important figure in film history dies Cinema Styles usually comes up empty. Come looking for a birthday remembrance or an obituary and you'll...
 
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Bette Meets 90-Take Willie

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2007-09-22 21:04:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Bette Davis It was 1931. Bette Davis was 23 and still new on the Universal lot, scrambling for parts like the other starlets. William Wyler was 29, "not a very good director" by his own admission and struggling to prove he deserved his break despite the (justified) perception that he owed his job to being Carl Laemmle's relative. Davis was...
 
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Happy 100th Birthday Bette

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2008-04-08 14:57:00 by Erich Kuersten in Bright Lights After Dark
Bette Davis would have been a hundred this past Saturday, and over on her indispensible Sunset Gun , Kim Morgan celebrates via a round-up of some of diva Davis's most bad-ass bitchiest moments She was a doll -- a doll that could easily contend with Chucky, but a doll nonetheless. God knows she had those famous, buggy-beautiful eyes, silky skin...
 
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Bette Davis @ 100.

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2008-03-31 12:24:47 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...better get started Bette Davis would have turned 100 on April 5, and her career seems more than ever an unrepeatable anomaly," writes Dennis Lim . "With her outsize performances and distinctive features (those bulging eyes, that clipped voice), she is surely one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time. But she was also one of the most...
 
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Bette without a butt

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2008-10-13 14:40:00 by J.J. in As Little as Possible
...Bette Davis stamp , for which her ever-present cigarette was erased: (look at that pose! The erasure is laughably obvious Look, I hate smoking. It took my parents from me, my father with lung cancer, my mother with emphysema. [...] On the other hand, I have never objected to smoking in the movies, especially when it is necessary to establish...
 
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Godard, Bette Davis and another zombie celebrity, together at last

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2008-01-16 04:26:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...Bette Davis, as part of their Bette Davis Centennial Celebration Collection, which will also include a two-disc of All About Eve , as well as Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Virgin Queen and Phone Call from a Stranger . All will be available separately as well as in the set. Cross another off the MIA list A special edition of Terry...
 
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BETTE DAVIS FILM FESTIVAL FRIDAY & SATURDAY, LOEW'S JERSEY CITY

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2008-02-27 00:22:19 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane The Loew's Theater in Jersey City, New Jersey, one of the nation's great historic movie palaces, will present three films starring Bette Davis this weekend. On Friday, February 27, Now, Voyager will be shown. On Saturday, February 28, the matinees showing is Jezebel and the evening...
 
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