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Bette Davis: North Hollywood
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Ed Sikov's new biography of Bette Davis, Dark Victory, is for people who love old movies and great acting. Readers who adore celebrity life stories and Hollywood dish will be sorely disappointed.
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Described as a "benevolent volcano" by Olivia de Havilland, immortal Tinseltown icon Bette Davis earned her reputation as a great actress and an uncompromising trailblazer. The defiant, iron-willed star's offscreen alter ego often matched her colossal on-screen persona. Through film clips, newsreel footage, photos and interviews with Davis's Hollywood contemporaries, director Peter Jones paints a mesmerizing portrait of a complex cinema legend.
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Bette Davis died on October 6, 1989, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, following a long battle with breast cancer, and several strokes. Davis was in France for the San Sebastian Film Festival, where she had received an award. Her remains were transferred to the United States and interred in Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, in Los Angeles. Her tombstone is inscribed with "She did it the hard way."
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Bette Davis's funeral was held at the First Christian Church of North Hollywood, located at 4390 Colfax Avenue, North Hollywood. This church is affiliated with the Stone-Campbell denomination known as the "Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)." This church is widely available for use by non-members and advertises that most people married (and presumably memorialized) there are not members of the congregation or the denomination. Bette Davis was probably not connected to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). From: Riese, page 188:
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One of Hollywood's greatest movie icons for more than half a century, Bette Davis had become, in popular fantasy, a creature of pure style -- an egg-eyed phantom bitch-goddess from a shadowy world of lies, betrayal, ambition, tragedy. And cigarette smoke.
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Classic melodrama from the golden age of Hollywood stars Bette Davis as a socialite whose life quickly unravels after she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. After falling for handsome surgeon George Brent, she becomes determined to make a full recovery--although fate has other plans. With Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, and Henry Travers. 104 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; theatrical trailer; audio commentary; featurette.
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