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Bette Davis

Bette Davis is perhaps best known for playing unsympathetic characters, but I always thought her to be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, despite the fact Jack warner of Warner Bros famously declared her 'not beautiful' and Bette Davis herself stated she had forged a successful career without the benefit of beauty, I again assert she was a stunner. She used her big eyes to tremendous effect. Her eyes are utterly seductive and so intensely expressive. She could turn on a dreamy come-to-bed glance or spear you with a challenge to dare her. In her career she received 10 academy award nominations. A perfectionist, Bette Davis had many a battle with her studio heads, producers and directors. The list of Bette Davis's films is long and she consitently played women with very strong characters. I'm not sure how many of those characters were originally written to be strong, but that appears to be something Davis brought to every role. Shy and demure roles were not for Bette Davis. Her presence on the screen was and continues to be extraordinary. Bette Davis happened to have been an actor, yet one feels that whatever career choice she had made it would have been a success and her forceful personality was always destined to be famous. Greatness was something she grasped with both hands and she would have dared you to take it from her. Yet, on her tombstone is the epitaph: She did it the hard way.

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