Scenes were filmed showing Charlotte Vale at the hairdresser’s with Lisa, as well as them shopping together. During the editing process, however, producer Hal Wallis decided to cut these scenes and save the audience’s first glimpse of Charlotte’s new look for when she boards the ship.
Margo Channing is a star of the theater. She made her first stage appearance at the age of four in Midsummer Night’s Dream. She played a fairy and entered, quite unexpectedly, stark naked. She has been a star ever since. Margo is a great star, a true star. She never was or will be anything less or anything else.
Bette Davis during a radio performance. (1947-8?)
“I have always been driven by some distant music - a battle hymn no doubt - for I have been at war from the beginning. I rode into the field with sword gleaming and standard flying. I was going to conquer the world.”
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - Forever)
On TCM tomorrow! (Times are EST.)
6:00 AM — THE RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US (1932) A socialite gets a divorce but can’t keep out of her ex-husband’s life.
7:15 AM — SO BIG (1932) A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son.
8:45 AM — HOUSEWIFE (1934) Success could spell divorce for an advertising writer.
10:00 AM — FRONT PAGE WOMAN (1935) Rival reporters try to scoop each other while covering a fire.
11:30 AM — JEZEBEL (1938) A tempestuous Southern belle’s willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
1:15 PM — DARK VICTORY (1939) A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.
3:15 PM — OLD MAID, THE (1939) An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin.
5:00 PM — IN THIS OUR LIFE (1942) A neurotic southerner steals her sister’s husband then vies with her for another man.
6:45 PM — BETTE DAVIS: THE BENEVOLENT VOLCANO (1984) A documentary depicting the life and career of one of America’s premiere actresses.
Because of her contract with Universal Studios, Bette was up for the part of Mina in the 1931 adaptation of “Dracula.” She was dismissed by studio head Carl Laemmle Jr. on the grounds that she didn’t have enough sex appeal.
It’s photos like these that make me wish she had gotten the part.
