Bette Davis on TCM: THE OLD MAID, NOW, VOYAGER, THE WORKING MAN – Alt Film Guide (blog) is a post from: News 2 You
Bette Davis on TCM: THE OLD MAID, NOW, VOYAGER, THE WORKING MAN – Alt Film Guide (blog) is a post from: News 2 You
Miriam Hopkins, Bette Davis, The Old Maid
Bette Davis, Warner Bros.’ top female box-office attraction from the mid-’30s to the late ’40s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” performer-of-the-day this Wednesday, August 3. TCM will be presenting 12 Bette Davis movies, in addition to the 2005 documentary Stardust: The Bette Davis Story. [Bette Davis Movie Schedule.]
Unfortunately, none of TCM’s Bette Davis movies is a local premiere. So, don’t expect anything rare like The Bad Sister, Seed, The Menace, or Way Back Home. Or, for that matter, Connecting Rooms, Bunny O’Hare, The Scientific Cardplayer, or Wicked Stepmother. (Luigi Comencini’s The Scientific Cardplayer, co-starring Alberto Sordi, Joseph Cotten, and Silvana Mangano, is an interesting film; hopefully TCM will get a hold of it… Read the rest