April 5 movie: Stardust: the Bette Davis Story. It's Bette Davis' 100th birthday today, and they're showing her movies all day on TCM. Including this documentary from a couple of years ago. Lots of great clips, including one of my favorites from The Cabin in the Cotton: "I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair!"
It was interesting to compare this to the Davis biography I read a couple of months ago. Davis' oldest daughter comes off particularly badly here. The daughter apparently wrote a nasty Mommie Dearest style biography then became a premillenial dispensationalist. And told a reporter, after Bette died, that she didn't care because her mother hadn't been part of her life anyway. That's Christian compassion for you.
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I think my favorite Bette Davis movie is The Nanny. It's almost a monster movie, and in the end, when it all makes sense, it's heart-rending.
I haven't seen The Nanny! I'll keep an eye out for it.