Bette Davis Roles
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Fun Facts About Bette Davis Roles
- Bette Davis' breakthrough role as the cruel, manipulative Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934) was widely considered the best performance by an actress that year, yet she was not nominated for an Academy Award. It sparked a massive write-in campaign by her fans.
- In 1935 Davis played an unglamorous, self-destructive alcoholic actress in Dangerous, which won her a first Best Actress Oscar. She later felt it was a consolation prize for her snub from the previous year.
- Davis masterfully played dual roles as twin sisters in two different films: Kate and Pat Bosworth in the tragic A Stolen Life (1946), and Edith and Margaret in the thriller Dead Ringer (1963).
- Her portrayal of the headstrong Southern belle Julie Marsden in Jezebel (1938) earned Bette Davis a second Best Actress Oscar and highlighted her willingness to play defiant, unsympathetic women who shatter social conventions.
- In the screwball comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Davis was cast against type. She played Maggie, a sharp-tongued secretary amid a chaotic ensemble which included actors Jimmy Durante and Billie Burke.
- Her role as the domineering, manipulative mother in The Little Foxes (1941) is widely regarded as so convincingly evil that it remains a benchmark for complex female antagonists in classic cinema.
- In Now, Voyager (1942), Charlotte Vale transformed from a repressed Boston spinster into a glamorous, confident woman. This is one of Bette Davis' most beloved romantic roles, complete with the memorable line about not asking for the moon when "we have the stars."
- Davis's Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) is ranked among the greatest screen performances ever. The story focuses on the wit, vanity and insecurity of an aging Broadway star, which Davis flawlessly blends together in a performance of a lifetime.
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Did you know?
All About Eve (1950) is remembered as the film that staged the spectacular comeback of Hollywood icon Bette Davis. By the late-1940s, Davis had long been cast in ingénue roles, where she played an endearingly innocent young woman, and audiences were now demanding something different. The role of Margo Channing seemed a perfect fit and she arguably stole the show from her fellow Oscar nominee, Anne Baxter, who played the titular role of Eve.
But the role of Margo was actually meant to be played by Claudette Colbert, the leading lady in It Happened One Night (1934). Apparently producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz felt Colbert was the best fit, style-wise. Yet as fate would have it, Colbert suffered a severe back injury on the set of Three Came Home (1950). This forced Colbert to drop out of the project. Davis was then brought on for what many argue was her career best performance.
However, this role wasn't Davis' personal favorite. According to biographer Charlotte Chandler, when Bette Davis reflected back on her long career, she cited playing the character of Judith Traherne in the film Dark Victory (1939) as her best performance.
