Bette Davis
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All About Eve
(1950)Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs this classic award-winning drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Eve Harrington (Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing (Davis)'s biggest fan. When, by chance, she gets to meet the great lady, she quickly ingratiates herself into her life.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1941)After an accident, a literary critic recovers at the home of the family he was visiting, but his unplanned stay turns their lives upside down.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)Two aging sisters—both former celebrities—are bound together in a psychopathic relationship by their mutual dependency, jealousy, and hatred.

Mr. Skeffington
(1944)Oscar-winners Bette Davis ("The Letter") and Claude Rains ("Casablanca") star in this drama about a flighty beauty who marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.

All This, and Heaven Too
(1940)Bette Davis stars in this gripping Oscar-nominated film based on Rachel Field's best seller about a married nobleman whose love affair with his children's governess results in both of them being suspected of killing his wife.

In This Our Life
(1942)Spoiled heiress Stanley Timerlake seduces and steals her sister's husband, driving him to alcoholism and suicide. Returning home, she kills a mother and daughter in a hit-and-run, then blames the crime on an innocent servant while feeling no remorse.

The Whales of August
(1987)Libby and Sarah are two elderly widowed siblings who have arrived at an impasse. Can they rediscover the powerful bonds of memory, family, and love?

The Great Lie
(1941)Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby. Starring Bette Davis, Mary Astor and George Brent.

Watch on the Rhine
(1943)Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.

Old Acquaintance
(1943)Academy Award winner Bette Davis stars as the well-respected author Kitty Marlowe, who returns to her small town birthplace where her life becomes embroiled with a now-jealous Old Acquaintance. Despite Millie Drake's (Miriam Hopkins) life as a happy wife and mother, she becomes envious of Kitty's success -- and writes a trashy novel that is published with huge success. As Millie's fame soars an...

Marked Woman
(1937)A prosecutor has a clip-joint hostess and her four co-workers testify against their boss.

Deception
(1946)A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.

The Corn Is Green
(1945)A schoolteacher faces resistance when she arrives in a Welsh mining town determined to educate the locals. A promising writer inspires her to persist.

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(1939)Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.

June Bride
(1948)Magazine editor Linda Gilman sends her aide and former fiancé Carey Jackson to cover a wedding for the June issue. She meddles to create a better story, while Jackson urges the couple to elope. Amid their clash, Gilman realizes she still loves him.

Payment on Demand
(1951)David (Barry Sullivan) gives his wife, Joyce (Bette Davis), an unexpected -- and unpleasant -- surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily (Jane Cowl), an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
(1964)A decaying plantation is the setting for this macabre tale of two spinsters and a 37-year-old axe murder.

Storm Center
(1956)A widowed librarian becomes the center of a censorship controversy during the 1950s when she refuses to remove a book off the shelves.

Jezebel
(1938)Bette Davis stars in an Academy Award-winning role as the beautiful,charming, ruthless Southern belle who scandalizes New Orleanssociety--destroying the men who love her...

Dark Victory
(1939)Bette Davis stars as a hedonistic socialite who learns to value the simple things in life after being diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor in this three-hanky drama.