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Article: Screen legend reveals herself Bette Davis bio flows with star's own words.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2006
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Byline: Cathie Beck, Special to the News
It's impossible to read Charlotte Chandler's biography of Bette Davis without dog-earing dozens of pages, in order to revisit the commanding and compelling statements Davis made to Chandler over their years of interviews.
Everything from sex to the habits early poverty instilled in her (she often cleaned her own house) to her lifelong sense of loneliness and, yes, even to movies, is laid bare in this work. Her story reads vividly and leaves readers with an endearing and intimate account of the forces that fed the life of a woman whom many consider the greatest American actress in movie history.
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