KALTBLUT-HONK! 03 The Divas

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TRIBUTE TO A GODESS
I was the
Marlon Brando
of my generation.
Joan Crawford fell in love with Bette. However, Davis
rejected it. In revenge, Mrs. Crwaford got married to
Franchot Tone, he has thrown himself an eye on Bette
at that time. Legendary is the black humor of the diva
and her devotedly maintained enmity with her rival
Joan Crawford, she used to say. “One should not say
anything bad about the death, but good Joan Crawford
is dead good!” or better yet “I would not even piss on
her if she were on fire. “
She argued, however, not only with Joan Crawford, on
the set everyone knew to work with Bette is not easy.
Often she found the scripts are bad, the directors and
fellow actors for untalented and said this is also loud.
Even though she had a negative image and played
unsympathetic characters, their movie, Davis was very
very popular and she had many advocate and friends
in the industry.
She worked until her death. She was the star in more
than a hundred films. Her career had a period of 60
years , which was for a Hollywood actress, a rather
unusual life. Davis’s own aging has perceived as “massacre”.
She once said: “Growing old is not for sissies.
“ At the age of 75, she suffered a heart attack, later
diagnosed with breast cancer. A few days after the operation
she had a stroke. Their last major appearance
was in 1986 in Lindsay Anderson’s “Whales of August
“. In October 1989 at the San Sebastian Film Festival
she accepting her last award, she was so weak that she
could not return home. She died on 6. October 1989 in
Paris. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
(Hollywood Hills), in addition to her mother Ruthie
and her sister, Bobby. On her grave stone is written,
“She did it the hard way” and that was true, because
the only thing that Bette Davis did not choose, was an
easy way to go.
Besides the wonderful movies, Bette Davis leaves a
legacy that says : Faith in yourself and strength of character
certainly can move mountains!