Bette was for many years cast in roles she found unacceptable. When the casting continued to displease her, she took off to England'until Jack Warner (of Warner Bros.) sued her for breach of contract. She was forced to return to honor the remainder of her contract, but at the same time, began getting much finer roles.
Bette Davis married four times, bore one child and adopted two more, and wrote three books, autobiographies that lean on each other as chronologies and/or updates of each other.
And Bette Davis had her rivalries'specifically those with fellow star, Joan Crawford. Behind the scenes of the filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, for instance, Bette so disliked Joan (then widow to Pepsi Cola president and CEO Alfred Steele) that she commissioned a Coca Cola machine to be brought to the set. In turn, Joan, also at odds with Bette, weighted her pockets for scenes in which Bette's character had to lift and drag Joan's.
If you have seen 'Baby Jane, you have seen that beyond the stunning performance was a palatable disdain that fed or carried the character acting. And if you have seen any of Bette's other films, you have seen the best in pain, repression, suppression, elation, and liberation'in Bette Davis' acting and, yes, in Bette Davis' eyes.
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