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Bette Davis
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  • She became Bette Davis at once, and shouted at the top of her voice, "Are you threatening me?"†  (source)
  • I had the scholarship of Philomena Guinea, a wealthy novelist who went to my college in the early nineteen hundreds and had her first novel made into a silent film with Bette Davis as well as a radio serial that was still running, and it turned out she was alive and lived in a large mansion not far from my grandfather's country club.†  (source)
  • "Please, have a seat," she said, attempting the same tones and gestures she'd seen Bette Davis use on the late movies.†  (source)
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  • When Bailey and I read poems together, he sounded like a fierce Basil Rathbone and I like a maddened Bette Davis.†  (source)
  • I remember seeing Migeres de Fuego with Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, and Joan Blondell.†  (source)
  • This picture ....Bette Davis comes home from a hard day at the grocery store .... GEORGE: She works in a grocery store?†  (source)
  • "Anyone would have his hands full as Bette Davis's husband," Dan observed.†  (source)
  • Imitates Bette Davis): What a dump.†  (source)
  • Owen said that the symptoms of Bette Davis's terminal tumor were familiar to him.†  (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...... GEORGE: ....Somebody .... MARTHA: ....somebody ...and she wants to go to Chicago all the time, 'cause she's in love with that actor with the scar......But she gets sick, and she sits down in front of her dressing table...... GEORGE: What actor?†  (source)
  • WELL, SOMETIMES MY VISION DIMS—JUST LIKE BETTE DAVIS'S!†  (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)
  • 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)
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