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Tag Archives: Bette Davis
The Letter (1940) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Read More »
Jezebel (1938) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent

In one of her most renowned roles, Bette Davis portrays Julie Marsden Read More »
Wicked Stepmother (1989) Larry Cohen, Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp

A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family’s home and cause havoc Read More »
Hell’s House (1932) Howard Higgin, Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Junior Durkin

Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is dating Peggy. Read More »
The Little Foxes (1941) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Read More »
Fashions of 1934 (1934) William Dieterle, William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh

Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. Read More »
Fog Over Frisco (1934) William Dieterle, Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay

Arlene Bradford is the quintessential high society bad girl. Read More »
Now, Voyager (1942) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

Overweight Boston spinster Charlotte is a repressed, self-esteemless woman completely dominated by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Read More »
The Scapegoat (1959) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey

On a vacation in France from his nondescript job and life, John Barratt encounters a titled but impoverished French nobleman who looks exactly like him. Read More »
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) William Keighley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley

Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice on his way into the home of a prominent Ohio family. Read More »
The Old Maid (1939) Edmund Goulding, Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent

After a two-year absence, Clem Spender returns home on the very day that his former fiancée, Delia, is marrying another man. Read More »
Murder with Mirrors (1985) Dick Lowry, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills

Christian Gilbranson, Miss Marple’s lawyer, persuades her to visit the baronial estate of his step-mother Read More »
The Watcher in the Woods (1980) John Hough, Vincent McEveety, Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards

When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange Read More »
June Bride (1948) Bretaigne Windust, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter

Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a “women’s” magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Read More »