The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 [7 Discs]The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 [7 Discs]

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DVD FEATURES:
  • Number of Discs: 7
  • Audio: Dolby Digital
  • Screen: Black and White, Color
  • Subtitle: French, Spanish, English
  • Features:
    • cc
    • Expert commentaries
    • New and vintage documentary profiles, including Stardust: The Bette Davis Story and All About Bette
    • New / vintage featurettes
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Won Best Black and White Costume Design - 1962 (Norma Koch)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1938 (Bette Davis)
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress - 1938 (Fay Bainter)
  •     Nominated Best Actress - 1962 (Bette Davis)
  •     Nominated Best Black and White Cinematography - 1962 (Ernest Haller)
  •     Nominated Best Sound - 1962 (Joseph Kelly)
  •     Nominated Best Supporting Actor - 1962 (Victor Buono)
  •     Nominated Best Cinematography - 1938 (Ernest Haller)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 1938
  •     Nominated Best Score - 1938 (Max Steiner)
  • Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  •     Nominated Best Nonfiction Special - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Writing for Nonfiction Programming - 2006 (Peter Jones)
  • Directors Guild of America
  •     Nominated Best Director - 1962 (Robert Aldrich)
  • Film Daily
  •     Won 10 Best Films - 1941
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pictu - 1962 (Victor Buono)
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - 1962 (Bette Davis)
  • National Board of Review
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 1938
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEWS:
  • Feisty director Robert Aldrich paired up two of Hollywood's greatest ice queens, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a campy, gothic exercise in psychological terror. The public status of both actresses was in severe decline in real life, lending their characters an added element of eerie realism. The duo's hostility is palpable, and their reported on-set animosity only fuels the picture's shock value. As the crippled former star, Crawford basically plays it straight; it is Davis' scenery chewing that makes the picture worth seeing. Her demented, Academy Award-nominated performance is unforgettably courageous. Aldrich handles the eccentric material well, mixing the creepy with the humorous for an overall peculiar tone. Though Baby Jane has become a cult classic, it is still a skillfully made, well-performed nail-biter. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi
  • Jezebel, which wrapped up as Gone With the Wind was entering pre-production, was either Bette Davis' feature-length screen test for Scarlett O'Hara or a consolation prize for not getting the part. Regardless, she handles the title role with the catty, manipulative cruelty that characterized many of her best performances. As her beau, Henry Fonda appears a little uncomfortable in the period piece. Ultimately, the film's success is wrapped around Davis' steely performance and the elegant production values: it is filmed in evocative black-and-white, and the cinematography uses light and shadow to build texture and mood and to help us forget that Davis' scandalous red dress is left up to our imaginations. Composer Max Steiner's music (he also composed the score for Gone With the Wind) is atmospherically effective. The film's study of the conventions and gender roles of the antebellum South occasionally makes the film feel more like a socio-historical document than a drama. Jezebel was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning for Davis and for Fay Bainter as her aunt. ~ Dan Jardine, Rovi
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner is one of the screen's brightest comedies, with identical twin-brother screenwriters Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein giving the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart stage classic a smooth transition to the screen. This is a prime example of an "insider" comedy that is enjoyable out of the context in which it was created. Viewers who choose to do so may enjoy reading any of several available commentaries on the film that detail the numerous inside jokes and references. Because Bette Davis was a top-billed star, her role is considerably expanded from the play. This is one of her best comic performances, as she adroitly handles even the most improbable story turns and punchy dialogue. The film, though, largely belongs to Monty Woolley as Sheridan Whiteside, the title character. His blustering, pompous manner gives the film its comic edge and yet allows those around him to have their moments to shine. ~ Richard Gilliam, Rovi
  • One of the more striking melodramas of the '30s, it's loosely based on Thomas E. Dewey's sensational prosecution of Lucky Luciano's New York prostitution rackets, with the profession of the women changed to "nightclub hostess" in conformity with the Hays Code. Scripted by Robert Rossen, the film remains surprisingly forceful in its depiction of the brutal treatment meted out to the women who buck the system in any way, betraying its Warner's provenance in the social conscience that seeps in through the gangster movie conventions. Indeed, in Charles Eckert's influential essay "Anatomy of a Proletarian Film: Warner's Marked Woman," he goes so far as to posit the film's wealthy gangsters as the ideologically acceptable objects of the Depression audience's displaced hatred for the affluent. Rossen has always evinced sympathy for those on the lower rungs of the social ladder, and a keen awareness of their fragility in their dependence upon physical attributes and skills to survive, with the mutilation of Davis paralleling the temporary crippling of Paul Newman's pool shark in The Hustler. The film remains tough-minded about the fate of these women even in its conclusion, and the image of the forgotten "hostesses" walking off into the fog as Humphrey Bogart's D.A. chatters away to the press, resonates hauntingly. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi

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