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Bridget!s new Bitch
“Bette Davis’ greatest creation was Bette Davis. She was - indeed - a fine actress but she made sure that the world knew it, knew how hard she worked and what opposition she had to overcome to get great acting roles. She wanted to be known as an “actress” and she gritted her teeth, bulged her eyes and succeeded, winning two Oscars, eight nominations and numerous other awards. She became the Queen of Hollywood as surely as Clark Gable became its King.”
/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World’s Great Movie Stars and Their Films by Ken Wlaschin, 1979 /
Born on this day: eternally fierce Miss Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis, 5 April 1908 – 6 October 1989), concisely summarized by film historian John Kobal as “the most starry of actresses and the most actressy of stars.”
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Joan
“She was the perfect image of the movie star and as such largely the creation of her own indomitable will. She had of course very remarkable material to work with: a quick native intelligence, tremendous animal vitality, a lovely figure and above all her face, that extraordinary sculptural construction of line and planes, finely chiseled like the mask of some classical divinity from fifth century Greece. It caught the light superbly, so that you could photograph her from any angle, and her face moved beautifully … The nearer the camera, the more tender and yielding she became – her eyes glistening, her lips avid in ecstatic acceptance. The camera saw, I suspect, a side of her that no flesh-and-blood lover ever saw …”
Director George Cukor’s eulogy for Joan Crawford at her memorial service, 1977.
Died on this day forty-five years ago: mesmerizing fierce-eyed Golden Age Hollywood screen diva, Miss Joan Crawford (23 March 1904 – 10 May 1977).
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