Want to know the best Bette Davis movies? How about the worst Bette Davis movies? Curious about Bette Davis’s box office grosses or which Bette Davis movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Bette Davis movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which one got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Bette Davis (1908-1989), a two time Oscar® winning actress. She was voted as the second greatest actress of all-time according to the American Film Institute. Her movie career started in 1931 and ended only months before her death in 1989. According to IMDB, she had 122 television and movie credits over her career.
Her IMDb page shows 123 acting credits from 1931-1989. This page ranks Bette Davis movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, some early 1930 Davis movies and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Bette Davis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
79 Bette Davis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | All About Eve (1950) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actress Nom |
George Sanders & Marilyn Monroe |
8.90 | 198.9 | 282.3 | 9 | 92 | 14 / 06 | 100.0 | |
| 2 | The Little Foxes (1941) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actress Nom |
Teresa Wright & Directed by William Wyler |
4.40 | 168.5 | 274.0 | 39 | 87 | 09 / 00 | 98.9 | |
| 3 | Now, Voyager (1942) AA Best Actress Nom |
Claude Rains & Paul Henreid |
6.10 | 226.2 | 443.6 | 25 | 84 | 03 / 01 | 98.7 | |
| 4 | Jezebel (1938) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actress Win |
Henry Fonda & Donald Crisp |
4.30 | 170.2 | 233.2 | 36 | 84 | 05 / 02 | 98.6 | |
| 5 | Dark Victory (1939) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actress Nom |
Humphrey Bogart | 4.70 | 179.4 | 262.3 | 41 | 80 | 03 / 00 | 97.8 | |
| 6 | Watch on the Rhine (1943) AA Best Picture Nom |
Paul Lukas | 6.10 | 220.6 | 348.2 | 41 | 69 | 04 / 01 | 97.3 | |
| 7 | The Old Maid (1939) | Miriam Hopkins | 5.70 | 220.5 | 310.3 | 24 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 96.6 | |
| 8 | Old Acquaintance (1943) | Miriam Hopkins | 6.50 | 234.0 | 373.6 | 35 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.4 | |
| 10 | All This, and Heaven Too (1940) AA Best Picture Nom |
Barbara O'Neil | 4.20 | 161.3 | 271.4 | 29 | 78 | 03 / 00 | 96.3 | |
| 9 | The Letter (1940) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actress Nom |
Directed by William Wyler | 3.50 | 133.1 | 211.6 | 42 | 84 | 07 / 00 | 96.2 | |
| 12 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) AA Best Actress Nom |
Joan Crawford | 10.20 | 147.3 | 212.2 | 20 | 84 | 05 / 01 | 95.9 | |
| 11 | A Stolen Life (1946) | Glenn Ford | 8.70 | 268.2 | 398.3 | 29 | 72 | 01 / 00 | 95.8 | |
| 13 | The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942) | Monty Woolley | 4.80 | 176.9 | 272.4 | 52 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 95.3 | |
| 14 | The Corn Is Green (1945) | John Dall & Joan Lorring |
6.10 | 193.9 | 321.4 | 53 | 70 | 02 / 00 | 95.1 | |
| 15 | Mr. Skeffington (1944) AA Best Actress Nom |
Claude Rains | 7.90 | 266.9 | 415.2 | 24 | 66 | 02 / 00 | 94.6 | |
| 16 | In This Our Life (1942) | Olivia de Havilland & Directed by John Huston |
4.70 | 175.3 | 296.7 | 54 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 93.7 | |
| 17 | Deception (1946) | Claude Rains & Paul Henreid |
5.80 | 177.5 | 271.5 | 60 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 92.9 | |
| 18 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) | Olivia de Havilland & Agnes Moorehead |
10.70 | 122.9 | 122.9 | 24 | 80 | 07 / 00 | 92.7 | |
| 19 | The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) | James Cagney | 4.70 | 180.8 | 265.4 | 33 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 92.4 | |
| 20 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) | Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland |
3.80 | 147.1 | 248.4 | 50 | 71 | 05 / 00 | 91.8 | |
| 21 | Juarez (1939) | John Garfield | 4.70 | 180.0 | 251.3 | 39 | 61 | 02 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 22 | The Great Lie (1941) | Mary Astor | 3.90 | 150.4 | 248.6 | 54 | 69 | 01 / 01 | 90.7 | |
| 23 | Kid Galahad (1937) | Humphrey Bogart & Edward G. Robinson |
4.10 | 172.0 | 251.6 | 38 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 90.7 | |
| 24 | Marked Woman (1937) | Humphrey Bogart | 3.10 | 128.4 | 190.9 | 70 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 87.9 | |
| 25 | The Petrified Forest (1936) | Humphrey Bogart & Leslie Howard |
1.90 | 83.8 | 119.3 | 102 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 87.3 | |
| 26 | It's Love I'm After (1937) | Olivia de Havilland | 2.30 | 95.9 | 156.9 | 101 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 86.4 | |
| 27 | The Sisters (1938) | Errol Flynn | 3.70 | 147.1 | 214.8 | 46 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 85.6 | |
| 28 | Pocketful of Miracles (1961) | Glenn Ford & Directed by Frank Capra |
7.00 | 101.9 | 101.9 | 33 | 67 | 03 / 00 | 84.6 | |
| 30 | June Bride (1948) | Robert Montgomery | 5.00 | 133.5 | 172.6 | 71 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 84.0 | |
| 29 | Dead Ringer (1964) | Karl Malden & Peter Lawford |
5.70 | 65.5 | 95.0 | 52 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 83.7 | |
| 31 | Of Human Bondage (1934) AA Best Actress Nom |
Leslie Howard | 1.50 | 72.3 | 90.7 | 73 | 75 | 01 / 00 | 82.9 | |
| 32 | Beyond the Forest (1949) | Joseph Cotten | 3.70 | 92.7 | 121.0 | 95 | 68 | 01 / 00 | 82.9 | |
| 33 | Seed (1931) | Zasu Pitts | 1.70 | 89.3 | 89.3 | 69 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 82.1 | |
| 34 | Death on the Nile (1978) | Peter Ustinov & Mia Farrow |
14.60 | 67.1 | 67.1 | 49 | 72 | 01 / 01 | 81.0 | |
| 35 | Phone Call From a Stranger (1952) | Shelley Winters | 3.80 | 73.5 | 73.5 | 92 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 79.0 | |
| 36 | Fashions of 1934 (1934) | William Powell | 1.60 | 76.3 | 129.2 | 70 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 78.3 | |
| 37 | The Nanny (1965) | Wendy Craig | 3.50 | 37.1 | 37.1 | 72 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 76.9 | |
| 38 | Dangerous (1935) AA Best Actress Win |
Franchot Tone | 1.30 | 59.8 | 92.9 | 101 | 68 | 01 / 01 | 76.6 | |
| 39 | That Certain Woman (1937) | Henry Fonda | 3.00 | 124.2 | 165.2 | 73 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 76.6 | |
| 40 | Front Page Woman (1935) | George Brent | 1.00 | 46.1 | 65.2 | 126 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 75.8 | |
| 41 | Jimmy The Gent (1934) | James Cagney | 0.90 | 44.5 | 62.5 | 116 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 74.3 | |
| 42 | Three on a Match (1932) | Humphrey Bogart | 1.00 | 47.3 | 62.2 | 119 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 74.2 | |
| 43 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) | Spencer Tracy | 1.40 | 70.6 | 130.9 | 68 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 73.2 | |
| 44 | The Rich Are Always with Us (1932) | George Brent | 1.10 | 54.9 | 54.9 | 107 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 71.6 | |
| 45 | Another Man's Poison (1951) | Gary Merrill | 2.40 | 52.1 | 52.1 | 140 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 71.1 | |
| 46 | Special Agent (1935) | George Brent | 1.40 | 62.9 | 62.9 | 95 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 71.0 | |
| 47 | Winter Meeting (1948) | Janis Paige | 2.30 | 62.4 | 76.8 | 130 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 70.4 | |
| 50 | Payment on Demand (1951) | Barry Sullivan | 4.40 | 93.9 | 143.2 | 79 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 69.1 | |
| 48 | The Virgin Queen (1955) | Richard Todd & Joan Collins |
2.70 | 56.3 | 56.3 | 119 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 69.1 | |
| 49 | The Man Who Played God (1932) | George Arliss | 1.50 | 75.0 | 116.9 | 56 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 69.0 | |
| 51 | The Anniversary (1968) | Sheila Hancock | 3.90 | 31.8 | 31.8 | 78 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 66.8 | |
| 52 | The Catered Affair (1956) | Ernest Borgnine & Debbie Reynolds |
2.70 | 53.0 | 82.2 | 120 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 66.5 | |
| 53 | Bordertown (1935) | Paul Muni | 2.50 | 114.3 | 158.7 | 49 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 66.2 | |
| 54 | The Bad Sister (1931) | Humphrey Bogart | 0.80 | 42.9 | 42.9 | 161 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 65.5 | |
| 55 | The Golden Arrow (1936) | George Brent | 1.30 | 56.2 | 79.6 | 128 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 63.8 | |
| 56 | Where Love Has Gone (1964) | Susan Hayward | 8.30 | 95.0 | 95.0 | 31 | 45 | 01 / 00 | 61.6 | |
| 57 | Right of Way (1983) HBO Movie |
James Stewart | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 175 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 60.4 | |
| 58 | Parachute Jumper (1933) | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | 0.70 | 31.9 | 52.8 | 147 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 59.4 | |
| 60 | The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) | Richard Barthelmess | 1.20 | 60.1 | 60.1 | 94 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 59.4 | |
| 59 | The Dark Horse (1932) | Warren William | 0.90 | 42.3 | 51.2 | 126 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 59.2 | |
| 61 | Return from Witch Mountain (1978) | Christopher Lee | 16.40 | 75.7 | 75.7 | 42 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 57.7 | |
| 62 | The Working Man (1933) | George Arliss | 1.10 | 53.7 | 110.1 | 80 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 56.9 | |
| 64 | So Big! (1932) | Barbara Stanwyck | 1.10 | 55.2 | 66.2 | 105 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 56.7 | |
| 63 | Housewife (1934) | George Brent | 0.70 | 34.0 | 43.5 | 146 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 56.4 | |
| 65 | Connecting Rooms (1970) | Michael Redgrave | 2.40 | 16.9 | 16.9 | 96 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 55.9 | |
| 66 | The Star (1952) AA Best Actress Nom |
Sterling Hayden | 2.80 | 54.4 | 54.4 | 121 | 52 | 01 / 00 | 51.5 | |
| 67 | The Whales of August (1987) | Lillian Gish & Vincent Price |
1.30 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 158 | 68 | 01 / 00 | 50.1 | |
| 68 | The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935) | Ian Hunter | 0.90 | 41.3 | 54.9 | 141 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 48.2 | |
| 69 | The Empty Canvas (1963) | Horst Buchholz | 1.40 | 17.9 | 17.9 | 112 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 47.7 | |
| 70 | Ex-Lady (1933) | Gene Raymond | 0.70 | 30.5 | 37.9 | 152 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 46.8 | |
| 71 | Fog Over Frisco (1934) | Margaret Lindsay | 0.70 | 34.8 | 52.1 | 142 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 42.6 | |
| 72 | John Paul Jones (1959) | Robert Stack | 2.40 | 43.5 | 91.9 | 95 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 41.8 | |
| 73 | Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) | Lewis Stone | 1.00 | 45.3 | 45.3 | 108 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 39.3 | |
| 74 | Bunny O'Hare (1971) | Ernest Borgnine | 2.60 | 16.7 | 16.7 | 102 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 33.5 | |
| 75 | The Watcher in the Woods (1980) | Lynn-Holly Johnson | 5.00 | 20.7 | 20.7 | 102 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 28.8 | |
| 76 | The Scapegoat (1959) | Alec Guinness | 1.60 | 29.3 | 61.3 | 125 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 28.4 | |
| 77 | The Big Shakedown (1934) | Charles Farrell | 0.60 | 26.0 | 26.0 | 171 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 25.9 | |
| 78 | Satan Met a Lady (1936) | Warren William | 0.90 | 38.2 | 45.1 | 155 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 23.2 | |
| 79 | Burnt Offerings (1976) | Karen Black & Oliver Reed |
4.70 | 23.9 | 23.9 | 85 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 22.3 | |
| 80 | Storm Center (1956) | Brian Keith | 1.50 | 28.8 | 28.8 | 156 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 17.6 | |
| 81 | Wicked Stepmother (1989) | Barbara Carrera | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 231 | 27 | 00 / 00 | 0.4 |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Bette Davis
1. Bette Davis made her movie debut in 1931’s The Bad Sister. The movie also starred another newcomer, Humphrey Bogart. Davis and Bogart would appear in 6 movies together from 1931 to 1939.
2. Bette Davis was nominated 11 times for a Best Actress Oscar®. She won twice…..1935’s Dangerous and 1938’s Jezebel. Only one of her films won the Best Picture Oscar®….1950’s All About Eve.
3. Bette Davis holds the record with Greer Garson for most years in a row to receive an Oscar® nomination…..5 years in a row. Davis was nominated every year from 1938-1942. Garson did the same accomplishment 1941-1945.
4. Bette Davis was married four times in her life. Her marriages to Harmon Nelson (1932-1939) and Arthur Farnsworth (1940-till his death in 1943) produced no children. She had one daughter with her third husband William Sherry(1945-1950) and two adopted children(boy and a girl) with fourth husband Gary Merrill(1950-1960).
5. Roles Bette Davis turned down or was seriously considered for during her career: Cool Hand Luke, The African Queen, Come Back Little Sheba, 1931’s Frankenstein, Mary Poppins and Gone With The Wind. Davis really wanted the Scarlett O’Hara role but her studio would not allow her to work for another studio.
6. Bette Davis and Lucille Ball both attended the John Murray Anderson Dramatic School. Davis was the star of the school, while Ball was sent home because she was too shy to become an actress.
7. Bette Davis was one of the founders of the Hollywood Canteen in 1942. The Hollywood Canteen was a nightclub where soldiers passing through Los Angeles during World War II got to see Hollywood stars perform live on stage. Often Davis would spend all day making a movie and all night performing for soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen. She felt that the Hollywood Canteen was one of her greatest accomplishments.
8. Bette Davis once sold over two million dollars worth of war bonds for the troops during World War II in only two days.
9. In 1981 Kim Carnes released the song “Bette Davis Eyes”. The song would reach number one and earn gold and platinum record status. Bette Davis Eyes helped Davis be discovered by a new generation.
10. One of the best collection of Bette Davis fans can be found on Facebook at Bette Davis Babylon. If you are a Bette Davis you have to join this group….it is easily the best movie group on Facebook that I have come across….and I am in many Facebook movie groups.
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Home from rehearsal – too wound up to sleep. I’ll talk about favourites now.
Note: As much as I love Death on the Nile, there wasn’t a lot of her in this. She joined the film because Bacall got a nomination from Murder on the Orient Express, but Bette’s part wasn’t important enough. (She also hated Ustinov.) Therefore, I will not include this in my top films.
In alphabetical order, here are my 10 favourites in reference to Bette’s roles:
All About Eve
All This And Heaven Too
The Bride Came C.O.D. – I just saw this Sunday night for the first time
Deception
Jezebel
The Letter
Now Voyager
The Petrified Forest
Mr. Skeffington
A Stolen Life
My favourite film overall is The Letter, but my favourite costar of hers is Claude Rains. Notice that all three of their films together are in my top ten. The order of preference of the three films they made together are:
Deception
Mr. Skeffington
Now Voyager
The earliest film of hers I have seen is not on this list, but one of those Universal movies from 1931: Waterloo Bridge.
The most recent film I’ve seen is Death on The Nile in 1978.
The lowest scored movie on the list I have seen is Where Love Is Gone in 54th place from 1964.
Hey Flora….hope rehearsals went well. Let’s see I have seen 5 of the 10 you mentioned. I have also enjoyed the Claude Rains/Bette Davis movies. I thought Rains was especially good in Mr. Skeffington as Davis was playing a witch. The two other Bette Davis movies that stick out to me are The Letter and The Great Lie….Mary Astor won the Best Supporting Actress for The Great Lie.
As all my pages do….they get me motivated to watch more movies by the hub subject. In this case A Stolen Life, Dark Victory, Deception and Petrified Forest are on my list of movies to watch. Thanks for the return visit to my movie page. It is always appreciated.
Bette Davis was arguably one of the most determined women in Hollywood and I think she the standard for a woman who dared to not be defined by her looks/age. All About Eve is an excellent movie and I did like her as Baby Jane too. Great job Cogerson!
And may I ask, is Joan Crawford next? I hope so!
Hey Alecia…after reading many books about her the last week, I agree 100% with your comment about Bette Davis being the most determined woman in Hollywood. Her tombstone says “She did it the hard way”…..which pretty much defines her life and career.
Joan Crawford is coming soon..not sure which order I will do this pages…it will depend on how much time I get to work on the hubs…somebody like Joan Crawford is going to take awhile as she has close 100 movies…while somebody like Mae West only has 11 movies. As always your comments are greatly appreciated.
I take it the Universal films had no data? Which were they? Maybe I have seen them.
I will have to come back at another time to talk about my favourites as well as what I think of the ranking of the movies I’ve seen, or the genres and costars – maybe tomorrow as technically (ha!) I don’t have time to read a hub this length today. I should be resting. Oh, well.
Instead, this post will simply be on what I have seen of her films you list.
Most of the films I have not seen are black and white films airing on TCM during the day -I refuse to watch them then! And who has money to buy films?
Top Ten Box Office: I have seen 7 of these. I have yet to see Old Acquaintance, Watch On The Rhine or The Man Who Came to Dinner. I’m not a Monty Woolly fan, so I have been avoiding TMWCTD.
Top ten Critics list: I have seen 7 of these. I have not seen The Little Foxes, Dark Victory, or Dead Ringer. That’s right. I’ve seen Hush Hush Charlotte.
Top Ten Movie Score: I have seen 7. I’ve mentioned which ones I have not seen.
Overall: I have seen some of her TV appearances. Of the movies you list, I have seen 25 of them and I am shocked at this. This is only 32%. I think it is because I have seen the ones I have seen over and over again that I am surprised. . I have seen films from early and late in her career.
By the way, it is not until I get past the top 30 that my percentage starts to drop significantly.
I have seen 13 or 65 % of her top 20 films (not much less than the top 10). Of the top 30, I have seen 19 of her films, or 63%.
Considering my schedule and not knowing when you would answer this comment , I checked out Bette’s imdb for those Universal films. I have indeed seen one of these: Waterloo Bridge from 1931.
Hey Flora ….well that moves you up to 26 out 84 which is 31% so it actually moves your % down one spot. Still better than Steve and myself.
Hey Flora…let’s see the five I could not find any box office information are: Seed, Waterloo Bridge, Way Back Home, The Menace and Hell’s House.
Well you have both Steve and myself beat in the movie count…I am only up to 10 because when I was watching all of those Oscar winning movies a couple years ago, I noticed there were lots of Oscar winning movies that Davis appeared in….I think one of my favorites was the Great Lie and Now Voyager both outstanding movies.
Well you percentage is outstanding with her Top 30 movies.. 25 total is pretty impressive especially considering how many movies she made in the 1930s…they are much harder to find…especially when they were not big hits.
As long as the page is…I did not include the box rank by year column…because it was filled with so many “unknown” rankings it made the column pretty much useless. Thanks for checking out the page….especially with your schedule being so busy.
Cogerson – re my percentages. Yes I know. sigh.
alecia – going by the top 100 list, the next time Cogerson writes a classic actress page, the actress scheduled is Greta Garbo – if he is going in order. He doesn’t have to do that, of course. He could go by alphabetic order instead.
Hey Flora…well your percentage is low according to your high standards…but I imagine not many people born in the 1970s have seen more Bette Davis movies than you.
As for who is next? Still trying to figure that one out….but I did look at the list tonight…and I saw I have already done Grace Kelly so I am up to 7 completed. Greta Garbo might actually be pretty easy as I was doing some quick research and I was finding all the required information going back to 1926’s Torrent. I know the Henry Fonda page(#6 actor) is going to take some serious amount of time as well.
“Fasten your seatbelts it’s going to be a bumpy night”
Bette Davis most famous movie quote, from All About Eve.
A classy hub on one of the Hollywood greats Cogerson, good work amigo.
Bette was never pretty but she was cute in those early 30’s WB flicks.
And she hated Joan Crawford who she saw as her only rival. There are many quotes, here’s one, Bette on Joan “She’s slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie”
When Crawford died Davis was quoted as saying “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
oof
Lets see, I’ve only seen 17 of the 79 films on your list Bruce, not as many as I thought.
All About Eve is no.1, thats okay, great film bought it on DVD.
I’ve seen 2 from the box office and 5 from the critics chart.
One of the last films on your moviescore is Burnt Offerings, a horror film I saw at the cinema and read the novel too, it’s a haunted house story, quite spooky.
One Bette Davis I’ve seen and it’s not on your list is Madame Sin but that is probably because it was first shown on TV in the US while it was shown in cinemas here in the UK. It wasn’t a good film as I remember.
Voted Up and Interesting, Useful too.
Hey Steve..thanks for sharing the quotes….I just recently saw All About Eve and I would have to agree with Movie Score that it is her best movie. The Joan/Bette feud was very famous….I just could not think of a good place to put the feud into the hub. There was the Coke vending machine and Pepsi vending machine fight they had during the making of What Ever Happened To Baby Jane.
I have seen 5 of the Top Ten Box Office hits….4 of the Top Ten critic hits….and 10 of the 79 movies….barely making double digits. So I am sure I will be last again in the Flora/Steve/Bruce tally war….lol.
But I am catching up with Fred Astaire…as I am now up to 16 of his movies I have seen…and have two more in the house now. As for Madame Sin…it was one of two of her movies that did not get released in North America. Thanks for checking out my latest classic movie page.worst.
This is such a useful way of comparing movies in different ways. My all time favorite Bette Davis movie? No surprise, its ‘All About Eve’. Thumbs up.
Hey gunsock….thanks for stopping by….and a compliment from a classic movie expert like yourself is greatly appreciated. As for All About Eve….all the statistics say it is her number one movie…it has it all you want in a movie…and you even get a very young Marilyn Monroe. I am glad you like the format of my page.