Had the privilege of meeting Bette many years ago at Heathrow when she was en route to Cairo for the filming of "Death on the Nile". As BA staff we were forbidden to go into the VIP lounge and even more, to ask for autographs! But I didn't care, when I approached her she was charm personified, and invited me to sit with her for a chat. I knew that she could be awkward, but she was anything but.............will never forget this experience.........still have the autographed photo...and worked for BA for another 30 years. I watch her films frequently....if I have a favourite.....perhaps "Now Voyager".
She could BE any character from Apple Annie to Queen Elizabeth, from a deceptive, murderess to a adult child living in the past. From a transformed recluse to a redeemed Southern temptress..Oh how I believe her!!!! EVERY TIME... EVERY ROLE!!! I am drawn into every character she portrays Because her TALENT is so skilled!
She still mesmerizes me, every time. I can't imagine that any man, upon meeting her, wouldn't have fallen in love with her ferocious spirit and her glorious diamond-dazzling eyes that looked through to the soul. And her intelligence and wit and poise -- she is a spitfire in every interview w/her whip-smart wit. Very few, if any, actresses have that quality today. Now, Voyager -- Bette Davis was just marvelous with Paul Henreid -- they have absolutely smoking screen chemistry in that film.
I still love that black dress she wore for her 'bumpy night'. The collar was messed up by a seamstress (too big) and Bette just pulled it down to show her shoulders. Edith Head designed the dress out of heavy brown silk because it films so lushly in black and white and look closely at the oh so chic ermine trim all around.
My own favourite is Now, Voyager. Bette is superb, looks her most alluring and the role allows her to go from psycologically damaged mess to an emerging butterfly to a super-confident thrillingly modern women. She sparks off both splendid Paul Henreid and electrifying Gladys Cooper and everything else in the movie from bit parts to musical score to lighting to costumes is firing on all cylinders. Is it better than Eve or so many others? No, but it's just the one that resonates the most with me.
Very well said. I have the same opinion as your. It's that Now Voyager is sparkling with great momens, memorable lines and a dazzling chemistry between Bette Davis and Paul Henreid.
Even when she was deathly ill due to cancer, her appearances on talk shows was always riveting. I believe Dick Cavett conducted some very informative interviews, where Bette spoke eloquently and frankly about her experiences in life, as well as in her profession. She was always appreciative when audiences applauded, but very quick to chastise when they reacted inappropriately. She demanded, and got, the respect she earned. I would love to have met her at any point in her life. I truly admire her.
Mr. Skeffington is my #1. Hers too or so I have heard. Great cast great story, ending with an unbearably tragic and beautiful twist What an incredible talent!
What about Of Human Bondage, Davis' breakthrough role and surely one of her best performances? Also memorable were her performances in Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Nanny, and Payment on Demand. I also liked Winter Meeting, a film not too well known, and the crazy The Anniversary, among others.
And “The Old Maid,” where she plays the same character as a sweet, affable young lady and then later as a desiccated, embittered middle aged woman, when she herself was just 31 at the time the film was made. Staggering work.
We will never have an actress like Bette Davis again. Stanwyck second and Crawford. although a great actress is 3rd runner up. I'm reading The Devine Feud and they are both bad little kids. Davis should have been spanked a few times. Down right nasty and mean not only with Joan but with other cast members. Betty your no lady during filming.
Leslie: We used to meet each other constantly once or twice a week. Not a soul had the smallest suspicion. Every time I met him, I hated myself. Yet I'd live for the moment that I'd see him again. It was horrible. There was never an hour when I was at peace and I wasn't reproaching myself. I was like a person who was sick with some loathsome disease and doesn't want to get well. Even my agony was a kind of joy.
1 Dangerous (1935) 2 Jezebel (1938)3 the Letter (1940) 4 All About Eve (1950)5 the Little Foxes (1941)6 Of Human bondage (1934) 7 Now,Voyager (1942) 8 MR Skeffington (1944)9 That Certian Women (1937)10 the Star (1952)
My favorite Bette Davis movies are 1# (All About Eve 1950) 2# (what ever happened to baby jane 1962) 3# (Thelittle Foxes 1941) 4# (Hush Hush sweet Charlotte) 5# (Jezebel 1938) 6# (made for television drama called "Strangers A story or a mother and daughter"1978) 7# The whales of August 1988) 8# The Nanny 1965) 9# Where love has gone 1964) 10# Dark victory 1939)
Excellent work editing all this together. Well chosen clips and plenty of facts too. I have to confess I've only seen 3 of the top 10 you've listed here, Baby Jane, Jezebel and my favorite - All About Eve. Your video has me wanting to check out some of the others. Voted Up.
Just done watching Mr. Skeffington. Oh my, such a wonderful movie. Beautiful ending and Bette Davis in her element; once again a very talented , epic, an icon . I always watch her movies.
All About Eve was on TV just now. No sex, no explosions, no violence or nudity. The cast and script were superb. Shame they don’t make them like that any more.
she was my favourite actress, and in doing my family Tree ,I found an aunt I'd not seen for around 60 years, turned out she had run clubs in London, and Bette used to visit, oh if only I'd known I could have met her.
Good choices! Another film to checkout is The Catered Affair with Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds. Davis plays a seemingly cold wife and mother, but she’s really got a heart of gold. (PS, those info bars are REALLY distracting, but I understand the effort).
Yes and she was screwed out of two more Oscars. All About Eve, because Ann Baxter insisted on Best Actress (not Best Supporting) category. Baby Jane, because of Joan Crawford's vindictiveness and campaign against her. Stupid on Joan's part because a Bette Oscar would have improved the box office receipts.
Bette Davis promoted WEHTBJ like it was a one woman show. Friendly reminder that Joan Crawford suggested that Robert Aldrich adapt Henry Farrell's novel into a movie, and suggested that Bette play Baby Jane. Bette Davis, even with the flashier role, does not make the whole film, and in my opinion, both actresses deserved Oscars. Despite the fact that Bette basically reprised her characterizations from Beyond The Forest and The Star and swapped out b*tchy for demented. I'm sorry to be a keyboard warrior, and you can leap to Bette's defense, I don't mind. That's just my opinion. I prefer Joan Crawford, and I thought she gave the better, more subdued, and more convincing performance.
Nicely done. The Old Maid is a personal favorite of mine. I would have ranked Whatever Happened To Baby Jane higher, but overall your rankings are well justified.
You fools. “The Old Maid” is far and away her best performance, and why the film is so forgotten is baffling, considering it was a major hit at the time of its theatrical run.
Thank you for this!....Showcasing the worlds best movie star!.......No actress will ever top her!......(although Merryll Streep could play anything convincingly enough!).......But....Bette Davis is just what acting is all about......
Bette was delicious and at her conniving best in "In this our life" as stanley, written origiinall fro two men it was changed to Bette and Olivia..she has some great scenes in that movie
My favorite "The Great Lie" hands down. With a close second of Now Voyager. I loved it so much I had my hair cut like hers! So few actresses now days of that caliber.
I'm so surprised that the movie "Dangerous" didn't make the list. This movie she earned her first Oscar. She received more Oscars than her rival Joan Crawford.
I am glad you mentioned All This And Heaven Too which is one of my favourites with Now Voyager and … Pocket Full Of Miracles : amazing poor tramp Apple Annie turning into a Lady !
Baby Jane!!!! Wow! You cannt miss that movie!!!! She's so bad, she's good. You must see it! Also The Fox is really great too. .... She had several really great movies.
Can someone help? I'm looking for a film (black-white i guess) with her, but not sure if she was in at all. It was about a woman, who never left the House or her room, always close-drawn curtains. In one scene some family member walked in and opened them. I thought it was Hush..Hush Charlotte but it wasn't.
I’m surprised Elizabeth and Essex rates so far down the list, it’s a wonderful sumptuous colour picture, it has Errol Flynn opposite Bette, Olivia De Havilland to boot, and Bette is terrific as Elizabeth, well, of course she is. My own favourite - and I believe hers - is Now Voyager, she’s (eventually) at her most beautiful, sophisticated and stylish and her electric scenes with Gladys Cooper got them both nominated for Oscars, plus there’s the score too, and Claude Rains, in fact everyone in it is perfect. I also love The Letter, one of the best openings of a movie ever directed. And All About Eve, here I think Bette is superb because it’s really an ensemble piece and while she gives maybe her greatest and most memorable performance, the sign of a truly great actor is she never diminishes or upstages any other member of one of the best casts ever assembled.
I'm still not all hyped up on All About Eve. Bette is the best thing about it, but the script sort of forgets about her character in the final act, the pacing drags a bit, and the story seems a bit flabby, like it needed more focus. I think Joe Mank got carried away with his witty dialogue, he had to stuff it all in there.
Yes, it's overrated, for sure. However, I'd sit through Bette delivering a seminar on home insurance. Especially the Bette of *Jezebel* days. She was at the very peak of her unusual beauty then ♥️
Another one which I don't think was mentioned is The Corn is Green. All the characters in that movie are superb, as well as the story itself. There was a TV remake starring Katharine Hepburn, filmed on location, but Bette Davis is superior in all respects.
Para mi parecer las mejores actuaciones de Bette Davis fue en la Extraña Pasajera, y en la adultera asesina de La Carta. Aunque estuvo expectacular en Amarga Victoria y Jezabel.
My favourite Bettie Davis movies out of the ones I've seen are: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte Jezebel Another Man's Poison - (This really needed to be in the top ten!)
Hey Toby....she had such an awesome career.....some great movies did not make our Top 10 ....statistically speaking. I will have to track down Another Man's Poison...as I have not seen it. Thanks for the visit.
listen , Jane , all this and heaven too , and a couple of the others have to be taken out - and - of human bondage , the petrified Forest , Marked woman , The catered affair , the private lives of Elizabeth and Essex , Juarez , and a couple of others have to somehow be added in , AND ' THE LETTER ' HAS TO BE NUMBER ONE - IT IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL BETTY DAVIS MOVIE ! with Bette Davis you have to make the list at least 20 !
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I'd trade every active actress today for Bette Davis once more.
Yes, me too!
Sure..
I see your comment was three years ago. Well it's November 2020 and I'll drink to that too. Cheers!
Right you are! My fave is "Dark Victory"
YES! YES! YES!
Had the privilege of meeting Bette many years ago at Heathrow when she was en route to Cairo for the filming of "Death on the Nile". As BA staff we were forbidden to go into the VIP lounge and even more, to ask for autographs! But I didn't care, when I approached her she was charm personified, and invited me to sit with her for a chat. I knew that she could be awkward, but she was anything but.............will never forget this experience.........still have the autographed photo...and worked for BA for another 30 years. I watch her films frequently....if I have a favourite.....perhaps "Now Voyager".
Amazing!
You're so lucky!
Robin Middleton ❤️She adored her fans! I have never watched an interview, a movie, or a talk show appearance that I didn’t love! ❤️
My favorite film of hers was Dark Victory. She said she thought that film was her best work.
Wow you are so lucky...thumbs up!
Bette Davis will always be the queen of all film actresses.
"Jerry, don't let ask for the moon--We have the stars!"
Fasten your seatbelts it's going to be a bumpy night
My favorite actress of all time!
Mine too.
"Fasten your seat belts....it's going to be a bumpy night" 😆
She could BE any character from Apple Annie to Queen Elizabeth, from a deceptive, murderess to a adult child living in the past. From a transformed recluse to a redeemed Southern temptress..Oh how I believe her!!!! EVERY TIME... EVERY ROLE!!! I am drawn into every character she portrays Because her TALENT is so skilled!
She still mesmerizes me, every time. I can't imagine that any man, upon meeting her, wouldn't have fallen in love with her ferocious spirit and her glorious diamond-dazzling eyes that looked through to the soul. And her intelligence and wit and poise -- she is a spitfire in every interview w/her whip-smart wit. Very few, if any, actresses have that quality today. Now, Voyager -- Bette Davis was just marvelous with Paul Henreid -- they have absolutely smoking screen chemistry in that film.
Now voyager, one of the best movies of all time, Bette at her peak
@@doughodges5212 I also liked her in Deception, another film with Paul Henreid and Claude Rains.
The Little Foxes - she was SO amazing in that film!
LOved it--the greatest actress ever.
the little foxes was great
Again one my favorite Bette Davis movies still remain in the dark. DEAD RINGER (1964), my favorite cult classic film.
My favorite cult movie too.
68 years later All About Eve still plays as fresh and perfect as ever! Best movie ever made!
I still love that black dress she wore for her 'bumpy night'. The collar was messed up by a seamstress (too big) and Bette just pulled it down to show her shoulders. Edith Head designed the dress out of heavy brown silk because it films so lushly in black and white and look closely at the oh so chic ermine trim all around.
My own favourite is Now, Voyager. Bette is superb, looks her most alluring and the role allows her to go from psycologically damaged mess to an emerging butterfly to a super-confident thrillingly modern women. She sparks off both splendid Paul Henreid and electrifying Gladys Cooper and everything else in the movie from bit parts to musical score to lighting to costumes is firing on all cylinders. Is it better than Eve or so many others? No, but it's just the one that resonates the most with me.
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Very well said. I have the same opinion as your. It's that Now Voyager is sparkling with great momens, memorable lines and a dazzling chemistry between Bette Davis and Paul Henreid.
My much-younger husband asked me, during a showing of "Now, Voyager," "So, the shrink is telling Bette Davis to get laid?" Well... I had to say yes.
Even when she was deathly ill due to cancer, her appearances on talk shows was always riveting. I believe Dick Cavett conducted some very informative interviews, where Bette spoke eloquently and frankly about her experiences in life, as well as in her profession. She was always appreciative when audiences applauded, but very quick to chastise when they reacted inappropriately. She demanded, and got, the respect she earned. I would love to have met her at any point in her life. I truly admire her.
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I'm happy about 'All About Eve' being no. 1. It's one of my all time favourite movies, from my all time favourite movie star!
Can i ask what your actual all time favourite movie is? :-D
@@Support4MySingers I think mine is Jaws if I had to pick one.
I would agree but how about Judy garland and obviously Bette davis'and friend the bosom Joan
I still love her. She has always been my favorite❤️🥰
Mr. Skeffington is my #1. Hers too or so I have heard. Great cast great story, ending with an unbearably tragic and beautiful twist What an incredible talent!
Loved all of them , she was fantastic in the old maid .
in my opinion, Bette Davis was simply superb.. I wish she could have gone on on--in her prime--making film after film.
What about Of Human Bondage, Davis' breakthrough role and surely one of her best performances? Also memorable were her performances in Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Nanny, and Payment on Demand. I also liked Winter Meeting, a film not too well known, and the crazy The Anniversary, among others.
meltzerboy I agree and don’t forget “A Stolen Life” and “Dead Ringer”!
And “The Old Maid,” where she plays the same character as a sweet, affable young lady and then later as a desiccated, embittered middle aged woman, when she herself was just 31 at the time the film was made. Staggering work.
'Dead Ringer' low-budget, trashy perfection.
And what avout Burnt offerings? Even a supporting role is worth to watch.
Now that is what you call a career!
Bette Davis is my favourite Actress.
As of 10/27/2016 the one person who dislikes this must be a Joan Crawford fan!
We will never have an actress like Bette Davis again. Stanwyck second and Crawford. although a great actress is 3rd runner up. I'm reading The Devine Feud and they are both bad little kids. Davis should have been spanked a few times. Down right nasty and mean not only with Joan but with other cast members. Betty your no lady during filming.
Hi! Crawford fan here, but I didn't dislike it. Despite my personal bias, I can admit that Bette had talent- but Joan had just as much. 👍
My favorite is "The Letter".
stevie68a My absolute favorite too! Even today, the opening scene can’t be touched!
that be private mail now sorry my eyes go wet at the now voyager music 😣
Leslie: We used to meet each other constantly once or twice a week. Not a soul had the smallest suspicion. Every time I met him, I hated myself. Yet I'd live for the moment that I'd see him again. It was horrible. There was never an hour when I was at peace and I wasn't reproaching myself. I was like a person who was sick with some loathsome disease and doesn't want to get well. Even my agony was a kind of joy.
I loved and admired her. She had spirit, and did not take any crap from men. She is my hero.
1 Dangerous (1935)
2 Jezebel (1938)3 the Letter (1940)
4 All About Eve (1950)5 the Little Foxes (1941)6 Of Human bondage (1934)
7 Now,Voyager (1942)
8 MR Skeffington (1944)9 That Certian Women (1937)10 the Star (1952)
Of Human Bondage was great, she gave a fantastic performance; Mrs. Skeffington was terrific--I cannot think of Davis movie that didn't stir my heart!
Of Human Bondage was the movie that really boosted her into "star" category. Should have been in top ten in my opinion.
Bette Davis is the greatest film actress in history.
Or actor!
My favorite Bette Davis movies are
1# (All About Eve 1950)
2# (what ever happened to baby jane 1962)
3# (Thelittle Foxes 1941)
4# (Hush Hush sweet Charlotte)
5# (Jezebel 1938)
6# (made for television drama called "Strangers A story or a mother and daughter"1978)
7# The whales of August 1988)
8# The Nanny 1965)
9# Where love has gone 1964)
10# Dark victory 1939)
Watch the man who came to dinner every Christmas 😂❤
Excellent work editing all this together. Well chosen clips and plenty of facts too. I have to confess I've only seen 3 of the top 10 you've listed here, Baby Jane, Jezebel and my favorite - All About Eve. Your video has me wanting to check out some of the others. Voted Up.
Just done watching Mr. Skeffington. Oh my, such a wonderful movie. Beautiful ending and Bette Davis in her element; once again a very talented , epic, an icon . I always watch her movies.
All About Eve is probably my all time favorite movie of 1950. Brilliant.
All About Eve was on TV just now. No sex, no explosions, no violence or nudity. The cast and script were superb. Shame they don’t make them like that any more.
no doubt for me - one of Hollywoods best actresses ...
I loved Another Man's Poison as well
she was my favourite actress, and in doing my family Tree ,I found an aunt I'd not seen for around 60 years, turned out she had run clubs in London, and Bette used to visit, oh if only I'd known I could have met her.
1) All About Eve
2) Now Voyager
3) Of Human Bondage
4) Jezebel
5)Baby Jane
6)Elizabeth and Essex
7)Skeffington
Good choices! Another film to checkout is The Catered Affair with Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds. Davis plays a seemingly cold wife and mother, but she’s really got a heart of gold. (PS, those info bars are REALLY distracting, but I understand the effort).
Mr. Skeffington the best picture of her.
1. Dark Victory
My favorite movie is "hush hush sweet Charlotte"
this is so absorbing! I loved it--really analyzed Bette's work and success! Thanks so much!!
so many great facts--for example I didn't know she had the record for consequitive Oscar nominations.
Yes and she was screwed out of two more Oscars. All About Eve, because Ann Baxter insisted on Best Actress (not Best Supporting) category. Baby Jane, because of Joan Crawford's vindictiveness and campaign against her. Stupid on Joan's part because a Bette Oscar would have improved the box office receipts.
Bette Davis promoted WEHTBJ like it was a one woman show.
Friendly reminder that Joan Crawford suggested that Robert Aldrich adapt Henry Farrell's novel into a movie, and suggested that Bette play Baby Jane. Bette Davis, even with the flashier role, does not make the whole film, and in my opinion, both actresses deserved Oscars.
Despite the fact that Bette basically reprised her characterizations from Beyond The Forest and The Star and swapped out b*tchy for demented.
I'm sorry to be a keyboard warrior, and you can leap to Bette's defense, I don't mind.
That's just my opinion. I prefer Joan Crawford, and I thought she gave the better, more subdued, and more convincing performance.
For me : the 3 BEST Bette Davis Movies : 1.) The Letter (1940) . 2.) All About Eve (1950). 3.) Now, Voyager (1942)..........These are the 3 best
Nicely done. The Old Maid is a personal favorite of mine. I would have ranked Whatever Happened To Baby Jane higher, but overall your rankings are well justified.
What the background of the song playing from the beginning thanks
You fools. “The Old Maid” is far and away her best performance, and why the film is so forgotten is baffling, considering it was a major hit at the time of its theatrical run.
Now Voyager is magnificent
I really liked Dead Ringer
Beatrice Petersen It is truly one of my favorite films of hers.
Me too
Great Bette for ever !!!!!!
You can't miss ! All memorable performances.
Thank you for this!....Showcasing the worlds best movie star!.......No actress will ever top her!......(although Merryll Streep could play anything convincingly enough!).......But....Bette Davis is just what acting is all about......
I've seen 👀many of these films and others which are not on this list. She was the best‼AND, oh how we miss Her❤. Thank you Bette Davis⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Bette was delicious and at her conniving best in "In this our life" as stanley, written origiinall fro two men it was changed to Bette and Olivia..she has some great scenes in that movie
I always loved Dark Victory ,no other movie she made had such a dramatic and sad ending !
In This Our Life is a book by Ellen Glasgow. The story is about two sisters not brothers but the film adaptation kept the men's names as in the book.
I love Jezebel. That's one of my favorites of her films. Bette Davis was one of the greats!
This is the way, i want movies to be, clothes on, no cursing, just plain morally clean, whether someone was killed in them or not.
So you want only Disney movies?
Yes, no degrading sensationalism. I only watch very old movies like these-the BEST!
My favorite "The Great Lie" hands down. With a close second of Now Voyager.
I loved it so much I had my hair cut like hers! So few actresses now days of
that caliber.
Her final scene in Strangers on a Plane was outstanding.
My absolute favourite actress.
I still think Of Human Bondage and Beyond the Forest are two of her absolute best roles even if they didn't make this list.
amazing im going to watch each one while on lockdown
There is no lockdown
I rank The Petrified Forest as #1...Leslie Howard is brilliant
Thanks so much. This is great.
I'm so surprised that the movie "Dangerous" didn't make the list. This movie she earned her first Oscar. She received more Oscars than her rival Joan Crawford.
Great post..
I am glad you mentioned All This And Heaven Too which is one of my favourites with Now Voyager and … Pocket Full Of Miracles : amazing poor tramp Apple Annie turning into a Lady !
I was looking for "In This Our Life" to be #1 or #2
& "The Nanny" was no where to be found😐
Baby Jane!!!! Wow! You cannt miss that movie!!!! She's so bad, she's good. You must see it! Also The Fox is really great too. .... She had several really great movies.
"Another Man's Poison" is a great Bette movie and also stars her husband Gary Merrill.
What about Dead Ringer? That was a great movie with Karl Malden and Peter Lawford.
I like dead ringer she did a good job playing her evil twin sister.
Can someone help?
I'm looking for a film (black-white i guess) with her, but not sure if she was in at all.
It was about a woman, who never left the House or her room, always close-drawn curtains.
In one scene some family member walked in and opened them.
I thought it was Hush..Hush Charlotte but it wasn't.
Could you be thinking of the Miss Haversham character in GREAT EXPECTATIONS? It's a great film but Bette Davis wasn't in it.
His name is Ronald Reagan-- he was a USA prez-as if you didn't know--you twerk!
ud2hb4 it's called NOW VOYAGER ONE OF MY FAVS
Thx I will check it out ;-)
ud2hb4 it sounds like a Barbara stanwyk movie where she is convinced someone is going to kill her. sorry wrong number, is the films name, brilliant!
All my favourite Bettie Davis movies... I also like Dead Ringer” , The Old Maid” and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte 😊
bette was the hit, not only her movies. she was an original and there will never be one like her again.
I’m surprised Elizabeth and Essex rates so far down the list, it’s a wonderful sumptuous colour picture, it has Errol Flynn opposite Bette, Olivia De Havilland to boot, and Bette is terrific as Elizabeth, well, of course she is. My own favourite - and I believe hers - is Now Voyager, she’s (eventually) at her most beautiful, sophisticated and stylish and her electric scenes with Gladys Cooper got them both nominated for Oscars, plus there’s the score too, and Claude Rains, in fact everyone in it is perfect. I also love The Letter, one of the best openings of a movie ever directed. And All About Eve, here I think Bette is superb because it’s really an ensemble piece and while she gives maybe her greatest and most memorable performance, the sign of a truly great actor is she never diminishes or upstages any other member of one of the best casts ever assembled.
When she is transformed and makes her appearance starting with her shoes, legs, and then all of her with that long lovely neck of hers.
Loved your comments of Eve. Per eptive spot on!!!
My all time favorite actress.
Three BD movies I love that didn't make this top ten: The Old Maid, Marked Woman, and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
Thank you. This was excellent.
In This Our Life, The Corn is Green, Three on a Match...I love everything.
TheCoffeeAddictedWriter Absolutely love “In This Our Life”!
@TheCoffeeAddict, I'm glad that you mention Corn on the Green. That definitely should have been on the list.
I'm still not all hyped up on All About Eve. Bette is the best thing about it, but the script sort of forgets about her character in the final act, the pacing drags a bit, and the story seems a bit flabby, like it needed more focus. I think Joe Mank got carried away with his witty dialogue, he had to stuff it all in there.
Yes, it's overrated, for sure. However, I'd sit through Bette delivering a seminar on home insurance. Especially the Bette of *Jezebel* days. She was at the very peak of her unusual beauty then ♥️
Another one which I don't think was mentioned is The Corn is Green. All the characters in that movie are superb, as well as the story itself. There was a TV remake starring Katharine Hepburn, filmed on location, but Bette Davis is superior in all respects.
The Corn is Green or Watch on the Rhine?
I love Old Aquaintance. Its my favorite and Bette says she played it just like her normal self. Its non actressy
I’m watching All About Eve right now. She’s perfection.
The Old Maid and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex are missing
the 30s and 40s are definitely her Era!!!
Old Acquaintance adapted and made into another movie RICH & FAMOUS with Candice Bergen & Jacqueline Bisset - both great!
Wonderful actress! I visited his grave at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Holliwood Hills!
Love her,great actress.
No Marked Woman NO June Bride this list sucks
But where's Mr. Skeffington? I'd put that ahead of Old Acquaintance
Para mi parecer las mejores actuaciones de Bette Davis fue en la Extraña Pasajera, y en la adultera asesina de La Carta. Aunque estuvo expectacular en Amarga Victoria y Jezabel.
My favourite Bettie Davis movies out of the ones I've seen are:
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Jezebel
Another Man's Poison - (This really needed to be in the top ten!)
Hey Toby....she had such an awesome career.....some great movies did not make our Top 10 ....statistically speaking. I will have to track down Another Man's Poison...as I have not seen it. Thanks for the visit.
OMG Bette Davis is the ultimate star.
The BO numbers seem off to me.
All about eve Betty Davis won the New York film critics award for best actress of 1950 6:05
No excuse for her not having more wins than Kate Hepburn...Bette was the far better actor with the broader range!
All about eve defintely in top ten of best movies of all time.
Add in "The Nanny" (1965)
& "Burnt Offerings" (1976)
& make it an even dozen!
All great movies.
listen , Jane , all this and heaven too , and a couple of the others have to be taken out - and - of human bondage , the petrified Forest , Marked woman , The catered affair , the private lives of Elizabeth and Essex , Juarez , and a couple of others have to somehow be added in , AND ' THE LETTER ' HAS TO BE NUMBER ONE - IT IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL BETTY DAVIS MOVIE ! with Bette Davis you have to make the list at least 20 !
3:14 hahaha true
Should be at least 15 to 20 best Davis movies!
I'd hoped that 'The Corn is Green' would have been on the list.