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| Author | : Kevin Lane Dearinger |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2022-03-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476646600 |
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.
| Author | : Kevin Lane Dearinger |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2022-04-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476688133 |
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.
| Author | : Peter McNally |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2008-02-29 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786434996 |
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.
| Author | : Bette Davis |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2017-04-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316441295 |
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.
| Author | : Julia A. Stern |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2022-01-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 022681386X |
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.
| Author | : Charlotte Chandler |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 2008-12-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1847396984 |
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.
| Author | : Kathryn Sermak |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018-09-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780316507868 |
Miss D & Me is a story of two powerful women--one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning--and how they changed each other forever. As Bette Davis aged, she was looking for an assistant, but she found something more than that in Kathryn Sermak: a loyal and loving confidante, a co-conspirator in her jokes and schemes, and a competent worker whom she trained to never miss a detail. For ten years, Kathryn was at Miss D's side--first as an employee and then as her closest friend. Throughout their time together, Kathryn had a front-row seat to Davis's late-career renaissance, as well as to the humiliating public betrayal that nearly killed her beloved boss and benefactor. Miss D & Me is an intimate account of the last years of the unique and formidable Bette Davis--a tale of extreme kindness, unfailing loyalty, breathtaking style, and the beautiful friendship that endured through it all.
| Author | : Ed Sikov |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2007-10-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1429921951 |
The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatness She was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart once remarked, "Unless you're very big she can knock you down." Bette Davis was a force of nature—an idiosyncratic talent who nevertheless defined the words "movie star" for more than half a century and who created an extraordinary body of work filled with unforgettable performances. In Dark Victory, the noted film critic and biographer Ed Sikov paints the most detailed picture ever delivered of this intelligent, opinionated, and unusual woman who was—in the words of a close friend—"one of the major events of the twentieth century." Drawing on new interviews with friends, directors, and admirers, as well as archival research and a fresh look at the films, this stylish, intimate biography reveals Davis's personal as well as professional life in a way that is both revealing and sympathetic. With his wise and well-informed take on the production and accomplishments of such movie milestones as Jezebel, All About Eve, and Now, Voyager, as well as the turbulent life and complicated personality of the actress who made them, Sikov's Dark Victory brings to life the two-time Academy Award–winning actress's unmistakable screen style, and shows the reader how Davis's art was her own dark victory.
| Author | : Bette Davis |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2017-04-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316441260 |
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.
| Author | : ChatStick Team |
| Publisher | : ChatStick Team |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2024-03-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
🌟🎥 Bette Davis: Eyes on Hollywood - Unveiling the Legend: The Journey, Triumphs, and Legacy of a Hollywood Icon 🎥🌟 Step into the spotlight with Bette Davis, as the ChatStick Team presents an extraordinary exploration of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable stars. "Bette Davis: Eyes on Hollywood" delves deep into the life of the woman whose gaze captivated millions, from her early struggles to her ascent as an indomitable force in the golden age of cinema. 📚 What's Inside? A Glimpse into Greatness: Follow Davis's journey from aspiring actress to silver screen legend. Iconic Moments: Relive the breakthrough performances that made her a star. Behind the Scenes: Discover the off-screen persona of a woman known for her fiery spirit and sharp wit. A Legacy Unmatched: Understand the impact Davis had on future generations and the film industry at large. 🎬 Why Read? For the Fans: A treasure trove of insights for anyone who admires the classic era of Hollywood. For the Dreamers: An inspiring tale of perseverance, talent, and the pursuit of greatness. For the Curious: A deep dive into the life of a complex woman who was much more than just an actress. 🌈 Special Features: Exclusive Photos & Anecdotes: Rare images and stories from Davis's life and career. Detailed Filmography: A comprehensive guide to her body of work. 🛒 Grab Your Copy Today! Dive into the pages of "Bette Davis: Eyes on Hollywood" and be inspired by the story of a woman whose legacy will forever light up the screen. Perfect for fans of classic cinema, biography enthusiasts, and anyone who loves a story of determination and success against all odds.
