Ebook: Fasten your seat belts: the story of Bette Davis
Author: Davis Bette, Quirk Lawrence J
- Tags: Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture actors and actresses--United States, Biographies, Biography, Davis Bette -- 1908-1989, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography, United States
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
- epub
The illuminating, comprehensive biography of Bette Davis, one of the most electrifying Hollywood stars ever to grace the silver screen.
With a career spanning six decades and more than eighty films, Bette Davis is synonymous with Hollywood legend. From her incandescent performance as Margo Channing in All About Eve, to her terrifying, psychopathic Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Davis generated electricity wherever she appeared, whatever she did—and not just on the silver screen. Her personal life was as passionate as her career and was so fiery that it eventually consumed her.
In this landmark biography, Lawrence J. Quirk takes us behind the scenes of all of Davis's movies, from her early unpromising roles, to her commanding presence at the pinnacle of stardom, to her degrading exploitation in horror films at the end of her career. Quirk delves into Davis's four unhappy marriages, as well as her frosty, manipulative...