Bette Davis

Miriam Hopkins interview with biographer Allan Ellenberger: Talented + mercurial actress was ‘Hollywood Rebel’ or ‘Magnificent Bitch’?

4th of July Movies: From our dystopian present to John Paul Jones + Benedict Arnold and other complex American Revolutionary War figures.

John Nash gay life erased + passionate James Dean bromance + never-ending war pitting ‘Westerners’ vs dark-skinned natives: TCM Oscar Movies.

Joan Leslie Dead at 90: Underappreciated Actress Fought Jack Warner off screen and Danced with Fred Astaire and James Cagney on.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movies: From Toyboy to Drug Smuggler in pre-Production Code movies such as Parachute Jumper and Little Caesar.

Joan Crawford Movies: The Women 1939, Controversial Christian-Themed Drama (banned in parts of the U.S.) and going berserk for love.

Olivia de Havilland Movies: ‘Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte’ as Favor to Bette Davis as two-time Oscar winner not ‘thrilled with the script.’

Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History for her work in The Little Foxes, Mrs Miniver and The Pride of the Yankees – feat still unmatched.

Joan Lorring in ‘Three Strangers’ Joan Lorring dead at 88: ‘The Corn Is Green’ performer was one of the earliest surviving Academy Award nominees in the acting categories Best Supporting …

Bette Davis’ eyes keep Watch on the Rhine. Bette Davis’ eyes are watching everything and everyone on Turner Classic Movies this evening, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the …

Paul Henreid. Paul Henreid: Actor was ‘dependable’ leading man to Hollywood actresses Paul Henreid, best known as the man who wins Ingrid Bergman’s body but not her heart in Casablanca, …

Patti Page: “Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte” singer – but not in Robert Aldrich’s 1964 box office hit starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Joseph Cotten. Patti Page movies: ‘Elmer Gantry’ …

Bette Davis sings “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” About two decades later, Davis herself would be the subject of a song: Kim Carnes sings “Bette Davis’ Eyes.” Bette Davis …

William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, …

James Farentino, best remembered for the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty, died at age 73 on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn native (born on …

Sex addiction movie Shame with Michael Fassbender. Shame, writer-director Steve McQueen’s follow-up effort to his acclaimed IRA drama Hunger, has been getting all-around excellent notices for the film itself, for …

The daughter of silent film actress Anna Lehr and director Edward McKim, Ann Dvorak began her film career at the dawn of the sound era. The pretty, wide-eyed Dvorak was …

Bette Davis: Actress in The Old Maid with off-screen “rival” Miriam Hopkins. Bette Davis, Warner Bros.’ top female box office attraction from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s, is Turner …

Bette Davis vs. Oscars: Davis received widespread praise but no Academy Award nomination for her work in John Cromwell’s Of Human Bondage. The outrage was such that the Academy changed …

Christmas Movies: The Good the bad and the bizarre from Gary Cooper + Bette Davis to holiday season serial killer + Santa Claus sing-along horror.

Fade Out Fade In: Flaring racial tensions and decaying Hollywood Mansions + right-wing pro-war propaganda with iconic all-American hero.

The Whales of August with Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, and Ann Sothern. According to my math, the careers of the three leading ladies – Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, …

Constance Bennett. At one point in the early 1930s, Constance Bennett was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. (In her early Warner Bros. movies, Bette Davis was clearly modeled after Bennett.) …

Marilyn Monroe in Roy Ward Baker’s 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), opposite …