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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 13:18:41 GMT
I think most people automatically jump to All About Eve when thinking of Davis, but I am very partial to The Little Foxes and Now, Voyager myself. How about you?
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Post by pupdurcs on Jul 21, 2020 13:20:13 GMT
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 21, 2020 13:27:26 GMT
The Nanny (1965) - not kidding......a Hammer horror dovetailing with the psychological explosion of the era - it's short, sharp and kind of nasty. I could literally watch it once a week......Baby Jane is close but there's something so perverse in her casting in The Nanny it's kind of lurid. The fact that not as many people know it makes it sort of more enticing even.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Jul 21, 2020 15:23:43 GMT
The Letter
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 21, 2020 15:42:59 GMT
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? Maybe I prefer that one a bit more than All About Eve.
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 21, 2020 20:31:48 GMT
Three-way tie,
Baby Jane The Nanny The Letter
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Post by countjohn on Jul 22, 2020 3:48:01 GMT
All About Eve for both movie and performance for me. HM's to Baby Jane and Now Voyager.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 22, 2020 6:25:59 GMT
I sooooo need to see her earlier output, but for now it's definitely All About Eve with Baby Jane and Sweet Charlotte in tow.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Jul 22, 2020 6:41:30 GMT
Dark Victory
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jul 22, 2020 9:34:39 GMT
Oh honey, Now Voyager. For me, this is one of her best, toned down performances.
Her acting style grates on me: It is really histrionic and hasn't really dated very well. I hate the way she often spits out her dialogue.
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Post by LaraQ on Jul 22, 2020 12:38:53 GMT
Jezebel.
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Post by demille on Jul 22, 2020 13:22:26 GMT
All About Eve Baby Jane The Little Foxes Now Voyager
Those are her 4 best films imo and probably in that order (it's close), but I kinda lean towards The Little Foxes as my favourite.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 16:06:28 GMT
For me, this was the film where she was the most beautiful - she was always unique and sexy, but never conventionally pretty, until here. She also makes a great Elizabeth I in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex - I think only Glenda Jackson has ever matched her in the role.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 16:09:13 GMT
This was Davis' personal favorite, too. I think the ending is just beautiful...
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 22, 2020 18:24:57 GMT
Oh! Almost forgot another fav In This Our Life (1942) - which improved a lot for me on a rewatch - with a timeless grinning-cruel Bette Davis perf (“I’d rather do anything than keep still") and a timely topic of a black man used as a scapegoat for a crime. Very deft second feature from John Huston. And there's a real criss cross of conflicts (familial, societal, racial, sexual) written out smartly by Howard Koch.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 23, 2020 8:53:22 GMT
I think I'll go with Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte just ahead of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? HM also to Watch on the Rhine, All About Eve. Jezebel and Dark Victory I like a lot as well. Still have a lot to see though.
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Post by cheesecake on Jul 24, 2020 7:02:17 GMT
Now, Voyager.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 2:02:07 GMT
The two greatest American actresses of all time? Highly recommend this if you haven't seen it - it is, of course, a masterclass in acting.
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Post by Longtallsally on Jul 27, 2020 9:49:02 GMT
Besides the already mentioned All About Eve and Now, Voyager
Of Human Bondage The Petrified Forest
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jul 27, 2020 12:22:48 GMT
The two greatest American actresses of all time? Highly recommend this if you haven't seen it - it is, of course, a masterclass in acting. Oh honey, I haven't seen this but I'd watch Gena in anything. In the TCM documentary about Bette, Stardust, she was one of the few people who had nice things to say about Davis, but acknowledged that she was a very difficult person. I think they stayed in touch after making this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 13:11:17 GMT
The two greatest American actresses of all time? Highly recommend this if you haven't seen it - it is, of course, a masterclass in acting. Oh honey, I haven't seen this but I'd watch Gena in anything. In the TCM documentary about Bette, Stardust, she was one of the few people who had nice things to say about Davis, but acknowledged that she was a very difficult person. I think they stayed in touch after making this. Really?! That's surprising to me - who said what, honey?
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jul 27, 2020 20:41:30 GMT
Oh honey, I haven't seen this but I'd watch Gena in anything. In the TCM documentary about Bette, Stardust, she was one of the few people who had nice things to say about Davis, but acknowledged that she was a very difficult person. I think they stayed in touch after making this. Really?! That's surprising to me - who said what, honey? Oh honey, I don't really want to trash her... you should watch it. Normally the TCM documentaries are very favorable and do a lovely white washing job but with Davis clearly the stains just wouldn't come out. She's also one of the trinity of actresses whose daughters revealed to the world in books what monstrous people they were offscreen... Oh honey, I'm never having children!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2020 3:49:17 GMT
Really?! That's surprising to me - who said what, honey? Oh honey, I don't really want to trash her... you should watch it. Normally the TCM documentaries are very favorable and do a lovely white washing job but with Davis clearly the stains just wouldn't come out. She's also one of the trinity of actresses whose daughters revealed to the world in books what monstrous people they were offscreen... Oh honey, I'm never having children! Well, honey, I watched it... What a horror show. I need Ava on the cover of French Elle as a palate cleanser.
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Post by speeders on Jul 31, 2020 23:58:24 GMT
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 9, 2020 3:32:11 GMT
The Little Foxes
Nobody does evil better than Bette Davis.
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