Bette Davis

All Movies of Bette Davis

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  8.8
  El último adiós de Bette Davis
  A documentary that reconstructs legendary actress Bette Davis' visit to the San Sebastian Festival to receive the Donostia Award in 1989. One of the great legends in the Festival's history. A documentary that reconstructs the actr...
  Character: Herself

   2014

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  5.3
  Puppet Master 4
  A young scientist working on an artificial intelligence project is the target of strange gremlin-like creatures, who are out to kill him and thus terminate his research. By coincidence, in one of the rooms he uses, there's a myste...
   1993

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  Wicked Stepmother
  A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private de...
   1989

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  7.0
  The Whales of August
  Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters who have a seaside home where they've summered for 50 years. Libby is blind, contrar...
  Character: Libby Strong

   1987

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  As Summers Die (TV)
  The plot centers around a large area of land owned by an old black lady, Elvira Backus. It had been given to her by her one time employer and secret father of her two children, a southern patriarch. Discovering oil on the afore me...
   1986

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  Little Gloria... Happy at Last (TV)
  The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
  Character:  Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt 2 episodes, 1982

   1982

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  Skyward (TV)
  An aging Bette Davis is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Davis teaches her to fly with some specia...
   1980

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  White Mama (TV)
  A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the...
   1980

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  The Horror Show (TV)
  Character: (archive footage)

   1979

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  Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (TV)
  A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies.
   1979

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  6.7
  Death on the Nile
  A deluxe version of Agatha Christie's favorite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her Murder on the Orient Express. Set aboard a steamship cruising down the Nile, an extremely unpopular heiress is murder...
   1978

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  6.8
  Burnt Offerings
  Ben and Marian Roth find a large old rundown country house being offered incredibly cheaply and take a summer lease. But once they move in Ben finds himself prone to strange outbursts of violence while Marian spends all her time u...
  Character: Aunt Elizabeth

   1976

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  8.5
  The Scientific Cardplayer
  Pepino and Antonia, two Italian proles are waiting every summer, for "the old lady", a wealthy and disabled American in order to fleece her. How? By playing cards with her in a game called "lo scopino scientifico = ...
   1972

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  The Anniversary
  On the celebration of the anniversary of Mrs. Taggart, her three dominated sons come to her house for the party. Terry, Henry and Tom Taggart work in construction, in a business that belonged to their father and is presently manag...
   1968

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  7.0
  Dead Ringer
  The twin sister of a callous wealthy woman murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman.
   1964

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  6.8
  Where Love Has Gone?
  After his teenage daughter Danny (Joey Heatherton) is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller (Michael Connors) recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden (Susan Hayward) and the subsequent events which led...
  Character: Mrs. Gerald Hayden

   1964

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  8.4
  Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
  Charlotte Hollis, wealthy southern spinster, is shunned by her community for the grisly murder some 40 years prior of her intended, John Mayhew. Even though her guilt in the matter was never proven, the townspeople liken her to a ...
  Character: Charlotte Hollis

   1964

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  Hollywood: The Great Stars
  Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
  Character: Margaret Elliot (archive footage)

   1963

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  5.0
  The Empty Canvas
  The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up with man-crazy nymphet Cecilia, who refuses to marr...
   1963

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  8.2
  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
  Character: Baby Jane Hudson

   1962

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  7.2
  Pocketful of Miracles
  Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...
  Character: Apple Annie

   1961

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  7.0
  John Paul Jones
  The sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, and he v...
   1959

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  6.0
  Suspicion (TV Series)
  TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
  Character:  Mrs. Wilfred Ellis 1 episode, 1958

   1957

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  The Catered Affair
  At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph ca...
   1956

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  Storm Center
  A small-town librarian is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves.
   1956

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  6.9
  The Virgin Queen
  Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Rale...
  Character: Queen Elizabeth I

   1955

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  General Electric Theater (TV Series)
  TV Series (1953-1962). 10 seasons. 300 episodes. General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and varitey music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following the Toast of the Town/E...
  Character:  Christine Marlowe / ... 2 episodes, 1957-1958

   1953

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  Phone Call from a Stranger
  David Trask, the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the various victims. He is quite surprised at who he finds: the wife and son of a troubled doctor; a domineering mother-in-law o...
   1952

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  7.6
  The Star
  Margaret Elliot is a bankrupted washed-up Hollywood Oscar winning star living in the past and not accepting the reality. After another great deception trying to get her career back, she gets drunken and is jailed. She is bailed ou...
  Character: Margaret Elliot

   1952

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  9.0
  All About Eve
  Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve’s humble background and eager innocence fools all while sh...
   1950

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  7.5
  Beyond the Forest
  Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago; her husband's patience ...
  Character: Rosa Moline

   1949

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  7.5
  A Stolen Life
  Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Martha's Vineyard lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. Bill goes to Chile; Kate and Patricia go sailing...
  Character: Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth

   1946

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  7.3
  Deception
  Music teacher Christine Radcliffe thought Karel Novak to have been killed in the war. She loves him more than ever and insists they marry. At their reception her benefactor and former lover offers Karel the chance to solo his new ...
  Character: Christine Radcliffe

   1946

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  7.3
  The Corn Is Green
  Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will ...
  Character: Miss Lilly Moffat

   1945

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  7.3
  Mr. Skeffington
  Whose face ravaged, grotesque is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even
  Character: Fanny Trellis Skeffington

   1944

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  6.9
  Hollywood Canteen
  Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in the Pa...
   1944

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  Old Acquaintance
  Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins--a pair of actresses who hated each other--re-mix their chemistry from The Old Maid in Old Acquaintance, an entertaining adaptation of John Van Druten's play. The action begins with Davis, a semi-fam...
   1943

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  7.0
  Thank Your Lucky Stars
  Eddie Cantor insists upon being chairman of the Cavalcade of Stars benefit show, in return for the use of his vocalist, Dinah Shore. Cantor disrupts the producers' plans with his own egocentric ideas. When they discover a talented...
  Character: Bette Davis

   1943

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  7.2
  Watch on the Rhine
  Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends ...
  Character: Sara Muller

   1943

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  7.0
  The Man Who Came to Dinner
  A pompous writer and critic forced to stay with a midwestern family during the winter thoroughly disrupts their well-ordered lives. Original play (1939) by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
   1942

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  7.0
  In This Our Life
  Selfish Stanley Timberlake abruptly breaks up with her fiancé and seduces her sister's husband, who runs away with her. After the wayward spouse gets divorced, he marries the wicked woman, but her lying, cheating ways soon drive ...
   1942

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  7.7
  Now, Voyager
  Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her to visit his sanitarium where she is transformed from frump to elegant, independent lady. When she goes off on a South American cru...
   1942

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  7.0
  The Great Lie
  Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South America where his plane crashes. Maggie pays Sand...
   1941

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  8.0
  The Little Foxes
  An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth. In the deep South at the turn of the 20th century, shrewish Regina Giddens readies her household in anticipation of a dinner to honor Wil...
   1941

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  7.1
  The Bride Came C.O.D.
  Charter pilot Steve Collins is able to stay one step ahead of girlfriends who want to marry him and the bill collector who wants to repossess his plane. His latest charter is Joan Winfield, a madcap heiress who is eloping to Las V...
  Character: Joan Winfield

   1941

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  7.0
  The Letter
  The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearly everyone who meets her. Her husband is certainly without doubt; so is the dist...
   1940

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  8.0
  All This, and Heaven Too
  Bette Davis stars as the lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy in the film version of Rachel Field's epic historical romance novel ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. Charles Boyer is charming and ultimately heartbreaking as the deb...
   1940

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  The Old Maid
  Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg leaving Charlotte an unwed mother. She and her daughter ...
   1939

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  6.7
  The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
  A romantic drama film based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I (played by Bette Davis) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (played by Errol Flynn).
   1939

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  6.5
  Juarez
   1939

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  7.1
  Dark Victory
  The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons (Henry Travers), convinces her to go with her best friend Ann King (Geraldine...
  Character: Judith Traherne

   1939

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  7.5
  Jezebel
  Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herse...
  Character: Julie Marsden

   1938

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  7.2
  Marked Woman
  Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated clea...
  Character: Mary

   1937

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  8.0
  Kid Galahad
  Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
   1937

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  6.5
  That Certain Woman
  <spoiler> Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers. A client's son Jack elopes with her, but his father tracks them down and has the marriage ann...
  Character: Mary Donnell

   1937

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  The Petrified Forest
  This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board after appearing in the successful stage play b...
   1936

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  The Golden Arrow
  A cafeteria cashier is hired by a cosmetic firm's publicity agent to live the life of Daisy Appleby, heiress to a fortune. Gossip about her will keep the Appleby name in the forefront. She proposes a marriage of convenience to rep...
   1936

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  7.7
  Dangerous
  Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce i...
   1935

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  6.6
  Jimmy the Gent
  Unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney) runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin...
  Character: Joan Martin

   1934

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  6.8
  Of Human Bondage
  The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films. Fortunately for this 1934 version of Of Human Bondage (the first of three), the introve...
  Character: Mildred Rogers

   1934

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  The Working Man
  Shoe manufacturer John Reeves turns his business over to his conceited nephew when his rival dies. On vacation, he runs into his rivals heirs who are living it up on their dead father's money. Reeves gets hired by them and uses th...
   1933

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  Bureau of Missing Persons
   1933

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  The Menace
   1932

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  6.7
  The Man Who Played God
  Montgomery Royale. He returns to New York with this sister, friend Mildred and fiancée Grace. He becomes philanthropic, using binoculars and lip reading to decide what anonymous gifts to bestow on strangers. He sees Grace tell he...
  Character: Grace Blair

   1932

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  7.1
  The Cabin in the Cotton
  A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
   1932