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CrankyOldBroad
01/08/09

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Best repartee of any movie EVER. And Bette was stunningly beautiful.
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SisterMaryMartha
01/08/09

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MILDRED PIERCE.
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SisterMaryMartha
01/08/09

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You should also watch Anne Baxter in I Confess and Bette Davis IN EVERYTHING SHE EVER STARRED IN.

Also, Now Voyager is a really good one.
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SisterMaryMartha
01/08/09

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THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES EVER EVER EVER. I AM RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED ABOUT THE MENTIONING OF IT.

SO GOOD

I HAVE LOVED IT SINCE I WAS 12.
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Ascendo_tuum
01/08/09

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Love, love, love this movie.
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Raspberry Swirly
01/08/09

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My mother's name was Bettye Davis. Because of the actress. Is that not awesome? Her entire life, people thought she was using a fake name.
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A-girl
01/08/09

@Raspberry Swirl: Dance Party Coordinator: with the extra e? If so, maybe that's why they thought it was fake!
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Raspberry Swirly
01/08/09

@A-girl: Well, the actress is Bette. My mom had a y thrown in. Why? Couldn't tell you. She had no clue either. But it was cool.
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kitsune
01/08/09

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Speak of the devil, I just watched this for the first time last night! It was great - top notch dialogue. But the theme, repeated over and over, is that a woman's life means nothing without a man. And if she chooses to have a career instead, she ends up a screaming harpie.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@kitsune: Well, think about when they made it. How could they have let it off the lot with any other message?

And since things like Vaughn and Aniston's "Break Up" do seem to be carrying a hideously similar message, well, then, I'd just as soon watch La Holm and La Davis rip up the scenery with their bicuspids.
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apocalypse-nowish
01/08/09

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The first half of that movie bored the shit out of me, but the last half had me riveted. I know, I know, I'm going to hell.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@apocalypse-nowish: You get half a pass because it starts in flashback, which can confuse the mind.

Now sit down, darling, with a martini, please, very dry, and watch it again.
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A-girl
01/08/09

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Whenever I see Bette Davis in anything (I watch a lot of old films) I think of something I read about her by Edith Head (the costume designer). EH dished on celeb body flaws and gossip in _The Dress Doctor_ in that late 50's ladymag way complaining that Bette Davis never wore a bra! (Or a corset for that matter).

EH headed the Paramount Costume Dept. forever and was loaned out for certain stars (such as Bette Davis and all Hitchcock Films).
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@A-girl: Trivia: Brad Bird is quoted as having modeled Edna Mode from the incredible "The Incredibles" on her.
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A-girl
01/08/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Yup. She's awesome.
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Topsyjane
01/09/09

@A-girl: I think the story was that Bette's dark dress for the party scene was too tight, so with no time to make alterations, she pulled the straps down to her arms and made it an off the shoulder dress. It's better that way than if the dress fit perfectly, since it matches Margo's nervous discomfort at the party.
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GayRobotsRUS
01/08/09

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This is one of my favorite movies. Why don't I own this?
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exelizabeth
01/08/09

@Min-T: I own it on VHS but I don't own a VCR anymore!
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emilyanne
01/08/09

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Oh this is my favourite film of all. When I was a little girl I wanted to grow up to be Addison de Witt - I think this might say something about me, but I'm not sure what.
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hatepaperdoll
01/08/09

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I can't believe I have to go into a meeting rather than discuss my FAVORITE MOVIE on Jezebel.

I stopped and rewound the scene where where Bette Davis says "A milkshake?" about a hundred times. It's hilarious and bitchy and vulnerable and all contained in two words. And Addison DeWitt...bish plz!
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Political Party Girl
01/08/09

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Lloyd: That bitter cynicism of yours is something you've acquired since you left Radcliffe.
Karen: The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@Political Party Girl: Lloyd SOOOO needed to hear that.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
01/08/09

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I love it because it shows the full range of what these women could do...they didn't just play girlfriend, mother or wife...they were coy, belligerent, ambitious, meek, duplicitous, witty, rude, funny, kind, intelligent, deceptive.... they do it ALL.
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JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
01/08/09

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OMG I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING. Marilyn Monroe's character says "Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?" Was MM the first to point out the phenomenon of diapproving bunnies?!
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