bette davis

+ fan of old hollywood films and its stars That's the way it crumbles, cookie wise.

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Oh, Maggie, that wifely tone. Do you count his cigarettes, too?

Bette Davis & Mary Astor The Great Lie (1941), directed by Edmund Goulding

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Bette Davis.

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IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER (1937) — Dir. Archie Mayo

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Bette Davis going over her script on the set of The Little Foxes, 1941

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A STOLEN LIFE (1946) — dir. Curtis Bernhardt

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"It's better to be hated for who you are, than liked for someone you're not."

Happy Birthday Bette Davis

(April 5, 1908- October 6, 1989)

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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols

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Gloria Swanson in Stage Struck (1925)

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Joan Crawford in Possessed (1931)

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A STOLEN LIFE (1946) — dir. Curtis Bernhardt

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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) — Billy Wilder

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Young Barbara Stanwyck

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Barbara Stanwyck by John Florea at home, 1942

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Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer signing the guestbook at the premiere of Marie Antoinette (1938)

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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

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Little Women (1949)

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Little Women (1949)