Bette Davis : larger than life / Richard Schickel and George Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schickel, Richard.

Perry, George, 1935- author.

Contributor:

Newland, Sonya, managing editor.

Palazzo Editions Ltd., producer.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davis, Bette, 1908-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Davis, Bette.

Davis, Bette, 1908-1989.

Genre:

collective biographies.

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm

Distribution:

London : Running Press,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Running Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One. A Star is Born (1908-30)

Part Two. Hollywood Ingénue (1931-36) The Bad Sister; Seed; Waterloo Bridge; Way Back Home; The Menace; Hell's House; The Man Who Played God; So Big!; The Rich Are Always With Us; The Dark Horse; The Cabin in the Cotton; Three on a Match; 20,000 Years in Sing Sing; Parachute Jumper; The Working Man; Ex-Lady; Bureau of Missing Persons; The Big Shakedown; Fashions of 1934; Jimmy the Gent; Fog Over Frisco; Of Human Bondage; Housewife; Bordertown; The Girl from 10th Avenue; Front Page Woman; Special Agent; Dangerous; The Petrified Forest; The Golden Arrow; Satan Met a Lady

Part Three. Sweeping to the Top (1937-45) Marked Woman; Kid Galahad; That Certain Woman; It's Love I'm After; Jezebel; The Sisters; Dark Victory; Juarez; The Old Maid; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; All This, and Heaven Too; The Letter; The Great Lie; The Bride Came C.O.D.; The Little Foxes; The Man Who Came to Dinner; In This Our Life; Now, Voyager; Watch on the Rhine; Old Acquaintance; Thank Your Lucky Stars; Mr. Skeffington; Hollywood Canteen; The Corn is Green

Free at Last (1946-51) A Stolen Life; Deception; Winter Meeting; June Bride; Beyond the Forest; All About Eve; Payment on Demand

Beyond the Peak (1952-89) Another Man's Poison; Phone Call from a Stranger; The Star; The Virgin Queen; The Catered Affair; Storm Center; John Paul Jones; The Scapegoat; Pockeful of Miracles; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Noia, La; Dead Ringer; Where Love Has Gone; Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte; The Nanny; The Anniversary; Connecting Rooms; Bunny O'Hare; Madame Sin; La Scopone Scientifico; Burnt Offerings; Return to Witch Mountain; Death on the Nile; The Watcher in the Woods; The Whales of August; Wicked Stepmother

Television Films

Envoi.

Notes:

"Created and produced by Palazzo Editions Ltd., 2 Wood Street, Bath, BA1 2JQ"--Title page verso.

"Publisher: Colin Webb. Art director: Bernard Higton. Cover art and design: Frank Sipala. Managing editor: Sonya Newland."--Title page verso.

Contains biographical sections in each part in addition to articles on Martha Graham, George Arliss, Orry-Kelly, Jack Warner, William Wyler, Bette's War Effort, Bette's Husbands, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis's Children.

Includes bibliographical references (page 260) and index.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy is "1" printing.

ISBN:

9780762436880

0762436883

OCLC:

451624278