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Bette Davis: Life
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Bette Davis stars as a respected writer who encourages childhood friend and stay-at-home wife and mother Miriam Hopkins to pen a steamy romance novel that becomes a smash hit. Ten years later, Hopkins' unexpected success has put a strain on the lifelong friendship and prompted her husband (John Loder) to turn his attention toward Davis. Gig Young, Dolores Moran ... star. 110 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary; featurette; bonus shorts "Stars on Horseback" (1939), "Fin 'n Catty" (1943).
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Synopsis: Bette Davis co-stars with her then-new husband Gary Merrill in the British melodrama Another Man's Poison. Adapted from Leslie Sands' novel Deadlock, the story concerns one Janet Frobisher (Davis), a successful writer of suspense novels. Janet's life is thrown into turmoil when her disreputableRead More
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Bette became the supreme ruler of Earth. Her life from this point on was basically making Earth a living hell. She created contradicting laws and stuff like that. She had many rebels offed secretly. But one rebel stood up to her. He was known only as Ratman.
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One of Bette's favorite expressions was "Sex is God's joke on human beings." Late in life she believed it. She wasn't, of course, always so cynical. Nor was she, despite the good upstanding Yankee image she liked to project, prudish.
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Her life unfolds as a mix of good Bette and bad Bette, a throwback to the twins she played in "A Stolen Life." In trying to explain Davis, writer-director Peter Jones runs into an insurmountable problem. Like many great stars, she is an enigma, a quality that reinforces her enduring appeal.
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