Bette Davis Biography

Chart a true legend's rise to fame - Bette Davis: More Than a Woman by James Spanda

Revealing a life replete with scandal, sex, violence, courage and sacrifice, Bette Davis: More Than A Woman is the fruit of three years of painstaking research, including in-depth interviews with Davis' relatives, colleagues and friends. It is a portrait of one of the most complex and misrepresented women in Hollywood history, and details many of the trials and traumas that were to shape her troubled life: her strangely close relationship with her mother; her ambivalent attitude towards sex; her possible role in the brain damage of her adopted daughter and her stormy, roller- coaster marriages.

Bette the devil you know - Bette Davis 100th Birthday DVD Box Set

To quote Claude Reins in Deception, Bette Davis is "all eyes and talent," and both burn bright in these six vintage films she made for Warner Bros. between 1939-46. Lesser known than her certified classics, these are are nevertheless marvelously entertaining and a representative showcase for one of Hollywood’s most enduring leading ladies. Few actresses portrayed characters who suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune so grandly, so regally, so tragically, or so deservedly.