#Bette Davis

[cosmonautroger]

Bette Davis

#bette davis

[ferventrabbit]

Listen I’m not proud of this okay

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[emeraldexplorer2]

Bette Davis

#beauty #vintage #smoking #smoking cigarette #sexy smoking #cigarette #sexy smoker #actress #hollywood #bette davis

[misagenda]

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[jeannemoreau]

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ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#iconic #bette davis #anne baxter #all about eve #1950s #cinema #old hollywood #quotes #joseph l. mankiewicz #my gifs

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Bette Davis (All About Eve, Now Voyager, Jezebel)—She is a bitch and I like her so much. Also: unf. She does it all: rage, vulnerability, romantic passion, hauteur that invites beholders to say "step on me" under their breath. Her work in the 1930s, from melodramas to romantic comedies, is excellent, but I've mentioned 1940s films above because I feel that she really was at her best once the studio allowed her star image to get edgier. Also her decades-long platonic friendships with male co-stars (e.g. Paul Henreid, Claude Rains) are very important to me. Anyway: bow down before Bette Davis, HBIC.

Gloria Swanson (Don't Change Your Husband, Queen Kelly, Sadie Thompson, Sunset Boulevard)—the absolute BALLS this woman had! an icon of the 1920s, her career had simmered down, decent living in radio, deciding you know what? you know what i'll do? I'll star as the haggard old aging decrepit horror icon in Sunset Boulevard, that's what I'll do. Nobody else in Hollywood would take the part (every other actress didn't want to be framed as a has-been)—gloria said, fuck that, I'll eat this role alive and serve cunt the whole time. she was still so gorgeous when they made Sunset Boulevard they had to intentionally make her up/costume her to make her look older than she was. mad respect for the screen legend who says yeah, i am a screen legend, i was always that bitch and here I am again to prove it

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Bette Davis:

"The absolute GOAT of vintage cinema. An icon. Her EYES. Any time you see Bette on screen you know she's about to steal the spotlight. Her range is incredible, she can play coy, shy, mischevious, innocent, evil, hideous, beautiful, cunning, and wise all with the same self assurance and talent. I live in awe of her ability. And, of course, she's gorgeous. I think she peaked in 1950 with "All About Eve", at the age of 42- she was in full control of her craft, she's a milf, and her scratchy voice makes me nervous in a good way."

"She’s Bette fuckin’ Davis! She had a great sense of humor and a lovely pair of eyes! She was a camp icon and fuckin’ knew it. And she wasn’t afraid to make fun of herself!"

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"shes got a whole song of saying how hot someone is bc they look like her"

"She's got Bette Davis eyes! Incredible character actress, charming, witty as all hell. Her favourite accessory was a lit cigarette."

Gloria Swanson:

She was THE idea of a 1920s sex comedy star, and was a hot (and totally unhinged) older woman in Sunset Boulevard. Hot as a young woman and as an older woman? Yes plz

I feel like she would slay in alternative fashion

her performance as Norma Desmond in sunset boulevard makes me insane. I love her

#gloria swanson #bette davis #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 3 #Youtube

[jastrups]

#Bette Davis

[s0uvlakii]

the eyes of the old hollywood ladies

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[todocine]

Bette Davis in an early publicity portrait after signing her first Hollywood contract with Universal in 1930. Photo by Jack Freulich.

#bette davis #universal #old hollywood

[slayerbuffy]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) dir. Robert Aldrich

#* #what ever happened to baby jane? #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #classicfilmsource #usersavana #userlenie #tusercamille #userkat #userraffa #userpavlova #usersnat #userbetts #userzo #bette davis #joan crawford #1k

[davisbette]

Davis's control in The Letter is only in part a matter of repression. She plays Leslie Crosbie as a bored, stifled housewife forced to expend her libido in the creation of a crocheted white coverlet. Still, her Leslie is also a sociopath, a calculating killer and remorseless liar, ceaselessly putting on acts for those around her because authentic emotions — other than murderous rage, that is — are not part of her psychological makeup. Even as Leslie fires the gun repeatedly at Hammond's dead body in the opening moments of the film, her face is stonelike, her feelings impossible to penetrate, and it's this ambiguity that makes it possible for audiences to question Leslie's motives from the beginning, even while we give her some benefit of the doubt. (Ed Sikov, Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis)

BETTE DAVIS as LESLIE CROSBY in THE LETTER (1940)

— dir. William Wyler

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[gena-rowlands]

BETTE DAVIS as MARGO CHANNING | All About Eve (1950)

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[screengoddess]

Bette Davis, photo by Jack Freulich

#vintage #classic hollywood #1930's #actress #vintage hollywood #bette davis

[retro-only-darling]

Bette Davis with her knitting buddies circa 1941

#bette davis #classic hollywood #knitting #birds #1940s cinema

[citizenscreen]

Bette Davis congratulates Julie Andrews after the New York premiere of THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

#julie andrews #bette davis #old hollywood

[womansfilm]

Bette Davis, President of the Tailwagger Guide Dog Institute, presents dogs to two blind men, July 10, 1939

#bette davis #newsreels #a #m #<3