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Bette Davis
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  • Owen said that the symptoms of Bette Davis's terminal tumor were familiar to him.†   (source)
  • "WELL, SOMETIMES MY VISION DIMS—JUST LIKE BETTE DAVIS'S!"†   (source)
  • "Anyone would have his hands full as Bette Davis's husband," Dan observed.†   (source)
  • Bad lines out of old Bette Davis movies.†   (source)
  • We see Bette Davis accepting her fate gracefully; she moves to Vermont with George Brent and takes up gardening—cheerfully living with the fact that one day, suddenly, darkness will come.†   (source)
  • Owen thought it was cruel that Bette Davis had to find out she was dying all by herself; but Dark Victory is one of those movies that presumes to be instructive on the subject of how to die.†   (source)
  • Dan Needham said that he wouldn't give George Brent a part in a production of The Gravesend Players; Owen added that Mr. Fish would have been a more convincing doctor to Bette Davis, but Grandmother argued that "Mr.†   (source)
  • But if a movie as stupid as The Ten Commandments could make Owen Meany murder toads by throwing them at Mary Magdalene, a performance as compelling as Bette Davis's in Dark Victory could convince Owen that he, too, had a brain tumor.†   (source)
  • Dan Needham said that he wouldn't give George Brent a part in a production of The Gravesend Players; Owen added that Mr. Fish would have been a more convincing doctor to Bette Davis, but Grandmother argued that "Mr. Fish would have his hands full as Bette Davis's husband"—her doctor eventually gets to be her husband, too.†   (source)
  • Imitates Bette Davis): What a dump.†   (source)
  • Bette Davis gets peritonitis in the end …. she's got this big black fright wig she wears all through the picture and she gets peritonitis, and she's married to Joseph Cotten or something.†   (source)
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