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Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]
The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Director Robert Aldrich’s […]
Double Oscar-winner Bette Davis stars in one of her most famous roles as plain, over-weight Boston spinster Charlotte Vale, repressed and dominated by her wealthy mother Mrs Henry Vale (Gladys Cooper). Paying the proverbial ugly […]
An incredibly sprightly 94-year-old Lillian Gish (who held the record as the oldest actor in a leading role), Bette Davis (aged 79) and Vincent Price (76) are wonderful in this exquisitely lovely, beautifully moving 1987 […]
‘Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’ – Margo Channing. Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 American drama film All About Eve stars Bette Davis as aging Broadway star Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as ambitious […]
Joan Crawford: ‘You wouldn’t be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this [wheel]chair.’ Bette Davis: ‘Butcha ARE, Blanche, ya ARE !’ Finally together on screen, lifetime Hollywood arch-rivals […]