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<blockquote data-quote="Barbara Fan" data-source="post: 393734" data-attributes="member: 21">Happy Birthday to my mums favourite actress - Bette Davis, From Follies of God Bette Davis was born near Salem, Massachusetts, and she entered the world like a witch: “A bolt of lightning hit a tree in front of the house the moment I was born,” she told a writer.Davis was intense, excessive, camp even. Many critics consider her one of the greatest actresses of all time; others accuse her of overacting. When critic James Agee wrote that in “Mr. Skeffington”Davis “demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic scale,” he could be equally referring to her life and career as much as her character portrayal.“I think it’s why women loved her,” Jane Fonda said in a TCM tribute, “because they knew that she was willing to go way out on a ledge, in terms of how she looked. She never played it safe.” She continued, “Just watching Bette Davis on the screen was empowering to women. It was like, this is what’s possible, this is the range and depth that is possible for a woman. Enough already with these one-dimensional women. She expanded our range of possibilities.”“Indestructible,” was how Davis described herself in an interview with The New York Times in the year of her death. “That’s the word that’s often used. To describe me. Which applies to—what? I suppose it means that I just overcame everything. And I had presented to me quite a few things to overcome. But without things to overcome, you don’t become much of a person. Do you?”[ATTACH=full]52047[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]52048[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barbara Fan, post: 393734, member: 21"] Happy Birthday to my mums favourite actress - Bette Davis, From Follies of God Bette Davis was born near Salem, Massachusetts, and she entered the world like a witch: “A bolt of lightning hit a tree in front of the house the moment I was born,” she told a writer. Davis was intense, excessive, camp even. Many critics consider her one of the greatest actresses of all time; others accuse her of overacting. When critic James Agee wrote that in “Mr. Skeffington”Davis “demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic scale,” he could be equally referring to her life and career as much as her character portrayal. “I think it’s why women loved her,” Jane Fonda said in a TCM tribute, “because they knew that she was willing to go way out on a ledge, in terms of how she looked. She never played it safe.” She continued, “Just watching Bette Davis on the screen was empowering to women. It was like, this is what’s possible, this is the range and depth that is possible for a woman. Enough already with these one-dimensional women. She expanded our range of possibilities.” “Indestructible,” was how Davis described herself in an interview with The New York Times in the year of her death. “That’s the word that’s often used. To describe me. Which applies to—what? I suppose it means that I just overcame everything. And I had presented to me quite a few things to overcome. But without things to overcome, you don’t become much of a person. Do you?” [ATTACH type="full" width="502px"]52047[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="561px"]52048[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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