KALTBLUT-HONK! 03 The Divas

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BETTE DAVIS
TRIBUTE
TO
A
GODESS
by Nina Kharytonova
They are robbing respiratory beautiful, they are loved, admired
and hated.
They are glamorous and unattainable as a goddess (because
that is the linguistic interpretation of “Diva”). We are talking
about the Hollywood dynasty of 1940-years. Elizabeth Taylor,
Eva Gardner, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn
Monroe just to name a few names here.
They have used the term diva reinvented, embossed and
they gave us some unforgettable moments in cinema.
The one that particularly stands out is Bette Davis.
Especially because she was not a typical diva. Which
was not alone on her choice of roles - she never hesitated
to play ugly and nasty unerotic women but
also their entire presence, charisma, and not least
unusual in their appearance. Bette Davis did not
match precisely to the ideal of beauty of at that time
in Hollywood. Everything about her face was a bit
too big: the nose, the mouth, but above all her fascinating
eyes. And yes she has managed it, especially
from those flaws to create a brand, because they
exuded a kind of beauty to you that it was difficult
for someone to believe something else.
Her childhood was not always golden. Bette was born
in 04/05/1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts(USA). A
year later, then her sister Harriet Barbara (Bobby)
was born. Trapped in an unhappy marriage with
unwanted children her father recite in 1915 the small
family and left the three women to their own fate. This
event coined especially his daughters very much. Ruth
(her mother) has always preferred Bette. She tried to
survive with photography, her favorite subject was
always their first-born child.
The desire to become an actress Bette expressed the
first time in 1921 (when her family moved to New