Showing posts with label Bette Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bette Davis. Show all posts
Monday, 17 April 2017

For a dull bank holiday .....

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While we wait for FEUD here in the UK .... (thanks to Dan-O-Rama).
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Monday, 3 April 2017

FEUD ?

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WHEN is this going to be screened here in the UK? The word is good and it looks super, with Susan Sarandon an effective Bette Davis and ...
Monday, 23 January 2017

Feud: Bette and Joan

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Here's one to look forward, a new tele-docu drama airing in March. It should be a prime slice of enjoyable trash as it portrays Bette...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Bette is Madame Sin

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Here's a delicious doozy for a dull winter afternoon. Bette Davis as MADAME SIN , a 1972 release, originally meant as a pilot for a tv...
Thursday, 1 September 2016

Summer re-views: for the RVT boys

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The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, one of London's oldest gay pubs, is a Grade II listed entertainment venue, which has been catering to confir...
Monday, 29 August 2016

Summer re-views: Bette's Charlotte Vale

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Its on television now, as I write - on the BBC: the 1942 NOW VOYAGER - its so seldom the BBC show a 1940s classic now, that its almost one...
Friday, 26 August 2016

Summer re-views, briefly

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WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED . Gilliam Armstrong's 2014 documentary on Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly, which we have mentioned her...
Friday, 29 July 2016

Orry, Ingrid, Tab documentaries .....

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Documentaries on movies and movie-makers don't seem to turn up here in the UK. We first mentioned Australian director Gillian Armstro...
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Thursday, 28 July 2016

Bette as Jezebel, 1938

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While movie fans were abuzz over who might play Scarlett O’Hara in the upcoming GONE WITH THE WIND , Bette Davis got another Southern bel...
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Sunday, 10 April 2016

Bette Davis classics: Old Acquaintance, 1943

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Do camp classics get any camper than OLD ACQUAINTANCE ? Do ‘Bette Davis Classics’ get any Bette-ier than OLD ACQUAINTANCE ? Probably NOW...
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Thursday, 31 March 2016

Bad Movies We Love

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Here is a Trash Classic indeed. Rebello and Marguilies' 1995 tome on those bad movies we love, with a foreword by Sharon Stone, who ...
Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Bette and Dirk / Dirk and Bette

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People We Like, continued. Dirk Bogarde (the man who knew everyone) didn't get to meet Bette Davis until late in both their careers and...
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Bette goes beyond the forest ...

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Is BEYOND THE FOREST a camp stinker, a Trash Classic or an undervalued late Forties melodrama proving Bette Davis with one of her great r...
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Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Bette and Bette share a stolen life

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A STOLEN LIFE comes at the end of Bette Davis's great run of hits in the 1940s. This 1946 romantic drama though seems under-appreciat...
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Sunday, 14 February 2016

Bette, dressed by Orry

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Bette Davis's 3 films with William Wyler are undoubted classics ( JEZEBEL , THE LETTER , THE LITTLE FOXES ) where she was dressed by ...
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