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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Bette Davis</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/bette-davis/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE LETTER (1929) Review: Jeanne Eagels Sole Extant Talking Performance</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-letter-1929-review-jeanne-eagels-academy-award/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-letter-1929-review-jeanne-eagels-academy-award/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:33:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36947</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1929) Review Pt.1. [Photo: Jeanne Eagels as jealous murderess Leslie Crosbie.] Low-key, however, is hardly the appropriate manner to describe Jeanne Eagels' bombastic talkie début in a role played in London by Gladys Cooper and on Broadway by Katharine Cornell. Eagels, a sensation on stage as Sadie Thompson in W. Somerset Maugham's Rain and the star of a handful of silent films (e.g., [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-letter-1929-review-jeanne-eagels-academy-award/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LETTER (1929) Review: Jeanne Eagels d: Jean de Limur</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1929) Direction: Jean de Limur Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne, Lady Tsen Mei, Tamaki Yoshiwara Screenplay: Garrett Fort; from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, itself based on a Maugham story found in the 1924 collection The Casuarina Tree Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Jeanne Eagels, Herbert Marshall, The Letter Having watched William Wyler's masterful 1940 film adaptation of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-jeanne-eagels-limur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE WHALES OF AUGUST Review: d: Lindsay Anderson Powerful and Compelling Drama</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-whales-of-august-ann-sothern-vincent-price/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-whales-of-august-ann-sothern-vincent-price/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:28:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26843</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lillian Gish, Bette Davis in Lindsay Anderson's The Whales of August THE WHALES OF AUGUST Review Pt.1 Libby is also possessive of her sister, resenting the relationship between Sarah and Mr. Maranov. When Sarah invites the man to dinner, Libby scowls, &#34;I will not eat his fish!&#34; More cutting dialogue continues over dinner, during which Libby is rude to the point of insulting their guest. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-whales-of-august-ann-sothern-vincent-price/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE WHALES OF AUGUST Review: Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-whales-of-august-lillian-gish-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-whales-of-august-lillian-gish-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:26:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26842</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE WHALES OF AUGUST (1987) Direction: Lindsay Anderson Cast: Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern, Harry Carey Jr, Mary Steenburgen, Frank Grimes, Margaret Ladd, Tisha Sterling Screenplay: David Berry; from his own play Oscar Movies, Highly Recommended Bette Davis, Vincent Price, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern, The Whales of August According to my math, the careers of the three leading ladies &#8212; Lillian Gish, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-whales-of-august-lillian-gish-bette-davis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hollywood Chinese Theatre Handprints/Footprints: From Norma Talmadge to Marilyn Monroe</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-chinese-theatre-marilyn-monroe-jane-russell/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-chinese-theatre-marilyn-monroe-jane-russell/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:09:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35512</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Hollywood Chinese Theatre Why Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Deserve Chinese Theatre Cement Honor The list below (and the one on the next page) features those who have left their handprints and footprints at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. Curiously, during the studio era, most of the stars and directors who took part in the ceremony were employed by one of three [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-chinese-theatre-marilyn-monroe-jane-russell/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AFI Life Achievement Award Winners: From John Ford to Shirley MacLaine</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25312</guid> <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles in Welles' own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler's Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees' age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sean Young Pulls a Bette Davis: Publicly Begs for Movie Work (on David Letterman)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sean-young-begs-for-work-david-letterman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sean-young-begs-for-work-david-letterman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:31:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35427</guid> <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I saw Sean Young at a Santa Monica restaurant. She looked really good. Fast forward to Sean Young on The David Letterman Show, where Young literally &#8212; and I mean literally &#8212; begs for work. Tacky? Daring? Both? Young, who'll turn 52 next November, went from James Ivory's Jane Austen in Manhattan to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner to David Lynch's Dune [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sean-young-begs-for-work-david-letterman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BFI Fellowship Recipients: From Bette Davis to Bernardo Bertolucci</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bfi-fellowship-bette-davis-bernardo-bertolucci/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bfi-fellowship-bette-davis-bernardo-bertolucci/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:02:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35381</guid> <description><![CDATA[David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes to Become BFI Fellows. [Right: Bette Davis.] The list of those who have received a British Film Institute Fellowship since it was first handed out in 1983 is quite extensive. [See below.] BFI Fellows include not only Britishers, but also numerous foreigners who have somehow or other been associated with either the film world or the BFI itself, among them directors [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bfi-fellowship-bette-davis-bernardo-bertolucci/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ann Dvorak Pt.4: Warner Bros. Co-Stars, THREE ON A MATCH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:42:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27556</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ann Dvorak, Paul Muni, Dr. Socrates Ann Dvorak Pt.3: SCARFACE, Warner Bros. Leading Lady, But Never a Star Ann Dvorak played opposite most big names at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. In addition to the aforementioned Joan Blondell and Bette Davis, there were Warren William, Paul Muni, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., James Cagney, Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, and Richard Barthelmess, among others. How did she get [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-three-on-match-pre-code-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ann Dvorak Movie Schedule: THREE ON A MATCH, OUR VERY OWN, COLLEGE COACH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-movie-three-on-a-match-sweet-music/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-movie-three-on-a-match-sweet-music/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:47:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27549</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Three on a Match Ann Dvorak on TCM Part I: SCARFACE, I WAS AN AMERICAN SPY Another cool Ann Dvorak performance is her drug addict in Mervyn LeRoy's Three on a Match (1932), which features a great cast that includes Warren William, Joan Blondell, and a pre-stardom Bette Davis. Never, ever light three cigarettes using the same match, or [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ann-dvorak-movie-three-on-a-match-sweet-music/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis Movie Schedule: THE CORN IS GREEN, JUAREZ, THE LETTER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-movie-the-corn-is-green-juarez/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-movie-the-corn-is-green-juarez/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:19:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27506</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis on TCM: THE OLD MAID, NOW, VOYAGER, THE WORKING MAN Bette Davis has a cameo in John Paul Jones (1959), which happens to be an insufferable bore despite the presence of Robert Stack in the title role, and she plays second banana to Spencer Tracy in the run-of-the-Warners-mill prison drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), but she is at the center of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-movie-the-corn-is-green-juarez/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis on TCM: THE OLD MAID; NOW, VOYAGER; THE WORKING MAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:18:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27505</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins, Bette Davis, The Old Maid Bette Davis, Warner Bros.' top female box-office attraction from the mid-'30s to the late '40s, is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; performer-of-the-day this Wednesday, August 3. TCM will be presenting 12 Bette Davis movies, in addition to the 2005 documentary Stardust: The Bette Davis Story. [Bette Davis Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, none of TCM's Bette Davis movies [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>William Wyler&#039;s Oscar-Nominated Actors: Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Barbra Streisand</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:41:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16678</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Wyler 36 Acting Nominations (s), supporting category (*) Academy Award winner William Wyler: Record-Setting Oscar Director for Actors &#160; 1936 Walter Huston (above, with Ruth Chatterton), Dodsworth * Walter Brennan (s), Come and Get It (Wyler replaced Howard Hawks, who received co-directing credit) Bonita Granville (s), These Three Maria Ouspenskaya (s), Dodsworth &#160; 1937 Claire Trevor (s), Dead End &#160; 1938 * Bette Davis, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LITTLE FOXES Review &#8211; Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright d: William Wyler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:34:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LITTLE FOXES (1941) Direction: William Wyler Screenplay: Lillian Hellman; from her play Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid, John Marriott, Jessie Grayson, Russell Hicks Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Herbert Marshall, Bette Davis, The Little Foxes THE HANDS THAT BILKED AMERICA To not choose the revolutionary Citizen Kane as the Best Motion Picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Greer Garson: Multiple Oscar Nominee on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greer-garson-oscar-nominations-mrs-miniver-mrs-parkington/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greer-garson-oscar-nominations-mrs-miniver-mrs-parkington/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:55:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26248</guid> <description><![CDATA[Greer Garson (top); Garson and Teresa Wright in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (bottom) Greer Garson received no less than six Best Actress Academy Award nominations during a seven-year span (1939-1945). The Oscar record of MGM's First Lady of the 1940s is only matched by that of Warner Bros.' First Lady of the 1940s (and of the late 1930s), Bette Davis, who also earned six Best [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greer-garson-oscar-nominations-mrs-miniver-mrs-parkington/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LETTER Review – Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson d: William Wyler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:56:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1940) Direction: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard, Frieda Inescort, Sen Yung Screenplay: Howard Koch; from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, itself based on a Maugham story found in the 1924 collection The Casuarina Tree Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Bette Davis, The Letter Directed by William Wyler and adapted by Howard Koch from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis Snub Changed Academy Rules: Biggest Oscar Snubs #1 (Part II)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-oscar-snub-academy-rules-80917/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-oscar-snub-academy-rules-80917/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:13:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22408</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis, OF HUMAN BONDAGE &#8211; Part I: Biggest Oscar Snubs #1 &#34;The air was thick with rumors,&#34; Bette Davis later recalled in her memoirs. &#34;It seemed inevitable that I would receive the coveted award. The press, the public and the members of the Academy who did the voting were sure I would win! Surer than I!&#34; According to Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-oscar-snub-academy-rules-80917/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis &#8211; OF HUMAN BONDAGE: Biggest Oscar Snubs #1</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-of-human-bondage-oscar-snubs-44888/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-of-human-bondage-oscar-snubs-44888/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22406</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis in John Cromwell's Of Human Bondage Steven Spielberg &#8211; THE COLOR PURPLE: Biggest Oscar Snubs #2 Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Leonardo DiCaprio, Audrey Hepburn, Gordon Willis, Christopher Nolan The Director, and James Cameron The Screenwriter have all faced major Oscar &#34;snubs,&#34; but those have been nothing compared to what took place in early 1935. Even if James Cameron The Director had been snubbed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-of-human-bondage-oscar-snubs-44888/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christmas Movie Recommendations: BLACK CHRISTMAS, SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christmas-movie-recommendations-black-christmas-santa-claus-conquers-the-martians/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christmas-movie-recommendations-black-christmas-santa-claus-conquers-the-martians/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:54:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25770</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis, at 3 a.m. in Vincent Sherman's Mr. Skeffington Forget Judy Garland and Van Johnson (and Spring Byington and three-year-old Liza Minnelli) in Robert Z. Leonard's In the Good Old Summertime. Forget Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum in Don Hartman's Holiday Affair. Forget June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rossano Brazzi in Mervyn LeRoy's Little Women. It's too late to watch any of those Turner [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christmas-movie-recommendations-black-christmas-santa-claus-conquers-the-martians/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Yul Brynner on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-bette-davis-yul-brynner-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-bette-davis-yul-brynner-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:05:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25731</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Moguls &#38; Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: Fade Out, Fade In is the next chapter in Turner Classic Movies' weekly documentary miniseries Moguls &#38; Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood. We're now in the 1960s, a time of radical change in the American film industry. Most of the old moguls are [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-bette-davis-yul-brynner-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis, Anne Bancroft, Richard Attenborough, Rosalind Russell: Columbia Classics&#039; On-Demand DVDs</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-anne-bancroft-columbia-classics-on-demand-dvds/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-anne-bancroft-columbia-classics-on-demand-dvds/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:44:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25383</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis outdoes Joan Crawford in the slapping department in the 1956 drama Storm Center, in which Davis plays a librarian concerned about civil liberties Following the lead of Time Warner, Sony Pictures has started the distribution of on-demand DVDs of rare (or somewhat rare) classics and not-so-classics found in its library. Columbia Classics has yet to offer Bette Davis in The Menace, Jean Arthur [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-anne-bancroft-columbia-classics-on-demand-dvds/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roy Ward Baker Dies: Directed Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Titanic Movie A NIGHT TO REMEMBER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/roy-ward-baker-a-night-to-remember-hammer-horror/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/roy-ward-baker-a-night-to-remember-hammer-horror/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:12:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25267</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe, Don't Bother to Knock Roy Ward Baker, best known for directing Marilyn Monroe in her first dramatic lead, Don’t Bother to Knock (1952), for the 1958 Titanic drama A Night to Remember, and for handling an eyepatched Bette Davis in The Anniversary (1968), died on Oct. 5. Ward Baker (born on Dec. 16, 1914, in London) was 93. Among the filmmaker's other efforts [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/roy-ward-baker-a-night-to-remember-hammer-horror/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis&#039; Oscar for JEZEBEL, 2010 Best Actor Oscar: Meet the Oscars, Chicago</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-oscar-jezebel-chicago-878718/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-oscar-jezebel-chicago-878718/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:03:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22290</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bette Davis' Oscar for Jezebel (right, with Fay Bainter) and the 2010 Best Actor statuette will be on display at “Meet the Oscars, Chicago,” presented by Kodak, at The Shops at North Bridge on Michigan Avenue. The exhibition opens Thursday, February 25, and runs through Sunday, March 7. Hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bette-davis-oscar-jezebel-chicago-878718/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>GONE WITH THE WIND vs. MELODY RANCH: The Unreliability of Box Office Polls</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/clark-gable-mickey-rooney-gene-autry-998/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/clark-gable-mickey-rooney-gene-autry-998/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:08:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20547</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind Sandra Bullock: Top Box Office Star Gone with the Wind opened in late December 1939. Boom Town became one of the biggest hits of 1940.Both movies starred Clark Gable, who kept himself quite busy by also starring in Comrade X and Strange Cargo. The biggest box-office star of 1940, according to Quigley's exhibitors' poll? Mickey Rooney. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/clark-gable-mickey-rooney-gene-autry-998/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis, Barbara Steele, ALIEN: Library of Congress Packard Campus&#039; Fall Series</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/bette-davis-alien-packard-campus/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/bette-davis-alien-packard-campus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:42:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16916</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Oscar winners, horror movies, and silent shorts are all part of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation's fall film series in Culpeper, Va., starting Oct. 8. Among the Oscar winners is best actress Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938), William Wyler's classic romantic melodrama that was Warner Bros.' answer to Gone with the Wind. (The film was based on a flop [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/bette-davis-alien-packard-campus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claude Rains on TCM: HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, DECEPTION</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-here-comes-mr-jordan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-here-comes-mr-jordan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:50:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15830</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claude Rains returns this Wednesday, Sept. 9, in more films featuring Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month. Every single one of the titles listed below is worth watching if only because of Rains' presence. That said, a couple of them actually have considerably more to offer: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Deception (1946). Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a witty, romantic comedy about [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-here-comes-mr-jordan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claude Rains on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-movies-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-movies-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:54:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15768</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claude Rains, one of the greatest actors of the studio era &#8212; in fact, one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century &#8212; is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of September. What would I recommend? Well, whether on TCM or on DVD or on VHS or in some hidden vault somewhere, I'd say check him out in The Invisible Man and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-movies-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-movies-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15156</guid> <description><![CDATA[An early photo of Miriam Hopkins. Photos in this article: courtesy of Allan Ellenberger Miriam Hopkins, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era, will have her &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Thursday, Aug. 20. Turner Classic Movies will present fourteen Miriam Hopkins films, including one TCM premiere &#8212; the Samuel Goldwyn production of Barbary Coast &#8212; and three of Hopkins' saucy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-movies-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-movies-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:23:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15030</guid> <description><![CDATA[No rare Bette Davis flicks on her Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day, Saturday, Aug. 8. That's too bad, as TCM now has access to Columbia's film library. They could have unearthed Davis' early Columbia flick The Menace (1931), which isn't very good, but it's rare and it's Bette Davis. Also, there's the little-seen, Columbia-distributed, political drama Storm Center (1956), in which Davis [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hollywood’s Greatest Year in New York City</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:47:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13266</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, &#34;Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939,&#34; on Saturday, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis&#039; DARK VICTORY Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dark-victory-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dark-victory-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:34:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13250</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Beginning at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fifth [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dark-victory-bette-davis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11103</guid> <description><![CDATA[Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jane Bryan</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jane-bryan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jane-bryan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:12:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10041</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jane Bryan, who played ingenues in several Warner Bros. productions of the late 1930s, died on April 8 at her home in Pebble Beach, California, following a long illness. She was 90. The Los Angeles-born (on June 11, 1918) Jane O'Brien had her name changed to Jane Bryan after landing a Warners contract in the mid '30s. Bryan's most notable role at the studio was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jane-bryan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1941</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4332</guid> <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles in Citizen Kane FILM Cheers for Miss Bishop d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron Citizen Kane d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles The Devil and Miss Jones d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna Dumbo d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others The Great Lie d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee Here Comes Mr. Jordan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1940</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L'Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins IV: Hollywood Blacklist, Bette Davis</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-hollywood-blacklist-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-hollywood-blacklist-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:01:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16298</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins III: BECKY SHARP Miriam Hopkins blacklisted during the post-war anti-Red hysteria? Why? And how come that fact &#8212; to the best of my knowledge &#8212; has never been discussed anywhere? During the late '30s and throughout the '40s, Hopkins was involved with several political and social groups that were considered fronts for the Communist Party. These groups included the Motion Picture Democratic Committee [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-hollywood-blacklist-bette-davis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Q&amp;A with Allan Ellenberger, Part II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:59:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6893</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview Part I I understand that Miriam Hopkins turned down a large number of parts. Could you name a few of those? And was there anything she felt sorry she missed out on &#8212; any part she rejected but then came to regret her decision, or any part she wanted to play but lost out to someone else? [Photo: One role [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview I</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:56:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16288</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins in All of Me Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview Intro First of all, why Miriam Hopkins? The films she made with Bette Davis &#8212; The Old Maid (1939) and Old Acquaintance (1943) &#8212; first attracted me to Miriam Hopkins. Also, the stories of their purported feud and Davis’ virulent comments that she spouted forth during her last days piqued my interest. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6881</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins in a publicity shot for Becky Sharp Miriam Hopkins. If mentioned at all today, Miriam Hopkins' name pops up in the media for two reasons: One of her movies is being shown on cable or at some retrospective or other, and someone says or writes that Old Hollywood's Miriam Hopkins was a selfish, self-centered, megalomaniacal, scene-stealing, temperamental, fire-spitting Bitch from Hell who made [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, John Garfield: Warner Bros. Bloopers</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/davis-bacall-blondell-warner-bloopers/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/davis-bacall-blondell-warner-bloopers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:00:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4110</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Among those featured in this compilation of 1930s-1940s Warner Bros. outtakes are Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Rosalind Russell and James Stewart (two MGM stars in the 1940 WB production No Time for Comedy), John Garfield, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ronald Reagan, and Pat O'Brien. Clip posted by tnpopkid.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/davis-bacall-blondell-warner-bloopers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Michael York Photos: Bette Davis Centennial Tribute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-centennial-tribute-photos-part-ii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-centennial-tribute-photos-part-ii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:33:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2612</guid> <description><![CDATA[Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / &#169;A.M.P.A.S. (Joan Leslie and Olivia de Havilland photos), Matt Petit / &#169;A.M.P.A.S. (all other photos) Click on the photos to enlarge them Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis Photos &#8211; Part I The Little Foxes original poster and, to the right, Bette Davis memorabilia Joan Leslie Robert Osborne, Joan Leslie Michael York and wife Pat York, Robert Osborne Olivia de Havilland Robert [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-centennial-tribute-photos-part-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bette Davis Sings &quot;What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?&quot;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-sings-what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-sings-what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:04:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-sings-what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Bette Davis would have turned 100 today. This clip, in which Bette Davis sings &#34;What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,&#34; is from the December 20, 1962, episode of The Andy Williams Show. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was released that year, earning Davis her tenth &#8212; and last &#8212; Academy Award nomination. She won two Oscars, for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938). The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bette-davis-sings-what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Glasgow Film Festival 2008</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/glasgow-film-festival-2008/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/glasgow-film-festival-2008/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:02:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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