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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781419812729
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1419812726
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Running Time: 553 minutes
Sales Rank: 40890
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 1940
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The Bette Davis Collection includes 3 new-to-DVD classics, featuring Davis in multiple Emmy-nominated performances as a captivating adulteress, a manipulative beauty, and a former Oscar-winning actress recovering from the end of her career.
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Even in the 21st century, very few film stars create and define their own genre--and certainly not in the complete way Bette Davis did. The Bette Davis Collection gives an exceptionally good survey of essential Bette, with four of the five films absolute knock-down classics from her long reign at Warner Bros. Davis's personality was so strong that she tended to overpower her directors, but William Wyler was one of the few to maintain his own distinctive style with her, and The Letter (1940) is a triumph for both of them. At a humid Malaysian plantation, Davis kills a man in the brilliant opening sequence, and the remainder is a darkly suggestive unraveling of the complicated explanation.
Dark Victory (1939) and Now, Voyager (1942) would be on anybody's list of most representative Davis pictures. In the former, she's a doomed heiress nobly losing her eyesight, a multiple-handkerchief situation that proved one of her biggest hits. Voyager allows Davis one of her favored techniques (appearing frumpy for at least part of her performance) as a mother-dominated spinster who comes out of her shell. Her match with Paul Henreid--and the music of Max Steiner--turns this into one luscious melodrama.
If Mr. Skeffington (1944) is not as celebrated as those films, it is nevertheless a characteristic Warners work-out. Davis wasn't shy about playing unsympathetic roles, and Fanny Skeffington--vain, selfish, married for practicality--is an exasperating tour de force. She gets good support from Claude Rains as the sensible, adoring husband. The Star (1952) is no classic, but its Pirandellian aspects will appeal to the actress's fans: Bette plays a washed-up Oscar-winning star desperate to get herself back in the public eye (think if it as a less witty postscript to All About Eve). There's some hint the main character is modeled more on Joan Crawford than Bette herself, in which case Davis must have loved playing it.
Extras are modest, with short featurettes giving background on three of the discs, and director Vincent Sherman providing commentary for Mr. Skeffington. But the films themselves, and their neurotically intense star, are quite capable of standing alone. --Robert Horton
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These five films were some of Bette's best work for Warner Bros. For each, she garnered an Academy Award nomination (earning ten nominations in her prolific career, and two well-deserved wins.)
In "The Star" Bette is an aging actress who can't face that she is past her prime. In an iconic moment, she grabs her Academy Award statue (a prop of Bette's own) and slurs, "Come on Oscar, let's you and me go get drunk!"
"Mr. Skeffington" stars Davis and her dear friend Claude ... Read More
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WOW WHAT A BEAUIIFUL DVD BOXSET A MUST HAVE FOR ANY BETTE DAVIS FAN OR FOR ANY LOOKING TO GET TO KNOW HER MOVIES.
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All in all a good collection for those fans of "old" classics. I am not an expert nor a serious Bette Davis fan but my interest was piqued when I happened to see "All about Eve" on a transatlantic flight. In my own view, the "Now Voyager", "The Letter" and "The Star" are true classics that transcend the generations. "Mr Skeffington" and "Dark Victory" are a bit dated and, in my opinion show a side of Bette Davis's performance techniques driven more by the times than her true talent. An enjoyable ... Read More
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From the outer box artwork to the bonus features, a lot of care and attention has clearly been spent on assembling this five-disc set, showcasing Bette Davis in some of her greatest movie roles. Each movie is housed in it's own sturdy plastic Amaray case.
NOW, VOYAGER - Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. Charlotte Vale (Davis) flees her mother's suffocating grip and finds romance with a handsome divorcee (Paul Henreid). Co-starring Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper. Extra features: ... Read More
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As my tagline indicates I am mad about musicals, and I vowed I would never add dramas to my collection because with musicals, you can play the numbers over and over again, like a record, and enjoy. You can never tire of songs, dance and spectacle. But dramas? Once seen, to be put away for years, otherwise you become too familiar with the plot and the initial impact weakens. I revised my thinking with the release of the Bette Davis Collections because I realised that - in keeping with my love of musicals ... Read More
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