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...She was Bette Davis, Joseph L Mankiewicz and Darryl F Zanuck rolled into one. But it may be a key aspect of her staying power....
...But the best lines come from this loony bliss-out of a backstage theatre drama written and directed in 1950 by Joseph L Mankiewicz....
...The first time, she had just become a colourist after years as Bette Midler’s assistant, and now she tends to the tresses of every major actress and pop star....
...Bette Davis may have uttered one of the most memorable lines in romantic cinema, but the sentiment’s a little out of date. These days, for watch lovers at least, there’s no need to choose between them....
...And I have two from his first own-label couture line, furiously fought over by customers and department stores, with aprons of taffeta and fichus worn à l’Arlésienne, like 19th-century portraits....
...Now I was cast as lady-in-waiting when he partnered Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.”...
...Somerset Maugham’s play about a crime of passion in steamy colonial Malaysia, The Letter will be more readily identified with William Wyler’s 1940 film version starring Bette Davis....
...“If it hadn’t been for the increase in human-produced greenhouse gases, summer temperatures in the Arctic should have cooled gradually over the last century,” says Bette Otto-Bliesner of the US National...
...France’s L’Autre is more long-distance in its weirdness....
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