Documentary

Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis

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Margo Channing's famous line, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," characterizes well the actress who played her in All About Eve--the inimitable Bette Davis. In fact, Davis's son comments in Lifetime's Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis that watching Margo Channing is much like watching Bette Davis. Davis's film career spanned six decades, in which she starred in 112 films, receiving 10 Academy Award nominations and 2 Oscars. Yet her life was not always the charmed one of a starlet; from a broken home, herself three times divorced, once widowed, betrayed by her own daughter's scathing biography, Davis found solace in her work, which didn't always come easy for her. When she first approached Hollywood in 1930, the studios didn't know what to do with such an odd beauty. This portrait of the actress covers a lot of ground, and leaves you wanting more.

Release Date : 1996-09-26

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Status : Released

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Bette Davis

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Bette Davis

Gender : Female

Susan Granger

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Original Name : Susan Granger

Gender : Male

Lauren Hutton

Character Name : Narrator (Voice)

Original Name : Lauren Hutton

Gender : Female

Michael Merrill

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Original Name : Michael Merrill

Gender : Male

Karen Valentine

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Original Name : Karen Valentine

Gender : Female

Robert Wagner

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Original Name : Robert Wagner

Gender : Male

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