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Bette Davis was one of the greatest acting talents the screen has ever known. She was ... one who aroused controversy: her legal battles with Warner Brothers; her four husbands; the shocking book written by her daughter.
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When call girl Bette Davis threatens to testify in court against the city's gang boss, her sister is murdered and her own face slashed. Gritty Warner Bros. crime drama, based in part on the trial of Lucky Luciano... stars Humphrey Bogart as a crusading D.A. With Eduardo Ciannelli, Jane Bryan, Mayo Methot (the third Mrs. Bogart). 96 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; featurette; bonus shorts "Porky's Hero Agency" (1937), "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter" (1937); theatrical trailer.
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Bette Davis, as the dust jacket on her 1962 autobiography The Lonely Life suggests, needs no introduction. She was a Star. The Fourth Warner Brother. She chose her own epitaph - "She did it the hard way." Bette never let the stroke she suffered a few years prior to her death stop her. When she did die, it was from breast cancer, in Paris on October 6, 1989.
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For ABC in 1974, Bette Davis cohosted (with George Segal) a ninety-minute televised salute to Warner Bros. fiftieth anniversary and she sat down for ninety minutes of funny and frank discussion with Dick Cavett in prime-time on September 19th. Following a final disastrous Broadway attempt in 1975 (Miss Moffat), Davis discovered her success in the TV movie realm gave her a much needed boost in the film industry, leading to theatrical releases like Burnt Offerings, Return to Witch Mountain, the star-laden Death on the Nile, and another suspense movie, Watcher in the Woods, all opening between 1976 and 1980.
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[Y]et, no matter how many different films may have displayed her name above the title, Bette Davis remains bigger than any of them. The name irresistably conjures up silhouetted images from fatalistic black and white Warner Bros.' melodramas of the '30s and '40s -- pictures like The Petrified Forest, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Dark Victory, Now, Voyager, Jezebel.
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The Barbara Walters Specials are continuously the top-rated specials of the year and have included such entertainment legends as Sir Laurence Olivier, Bing Crosby, John Wayne, Bette Davis and Audrey Hepburn. More recent interviews of superstars have included George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey, Mariah Carey, Julianne Moore, and Renee Zellweger. Walters' The 10 Most Fascinating People special broadcast, launched in 1993, offers a year-end review of the most prominent newsmakers of the year.
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