“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade.”
List of Films
(in chronological order):
- The Bad Sister (1931, Hobart Henley)
- Waterloo Bridge (1931, James Whale)
- Way Back Home (1931, William A. Seiter)
- Hell’s House (1932, Howard Higgin)
- The Man Who Played God (1932, John G. Adolfi)
- So Big! (1932, William A. Wellman)
- The Rich Are Always with Us (1932, Alfred E. Green)
- The Dark Horse (1932, Alfred E. Green)
- The Cabin in the Cotton (1932, Michael Curtiz)
- Three on a Match (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932, Michael Curtiz)
- Parachute Jumper (1933, Alfred E. Green)
- The Working Man (1933, John G. Adolfi)
- Ex-Lady (1933, Robert Florey)
- Bureau of Missing Persons (1933, Roy Del Ruth)
- Fashions (of 1934) (1934, William Dieterle)
- The Big Shakedown (1934, John Francis Dillon)
- Jimmy the Gent (1934, Michael Curtiz)
- Fog Over Frisco (1934, William Dieterle)
- Housewife (1934, Alfred E. Green)
- Of Human Bondage (1934, John Cromwell)
- Bordertown (1935, Archie Mayo)
- The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935, Alfred E. Green)
- Front Page Woman (1935, Michael Curtiz)
- Special Agent (1935, William Keighley)
- Dangerous (1935, Alfred E. Green)
- The Petrified Forest (1936, Archie Mayo)
- The Golden Arrow (1936, Alfred E. Green)
- Satan Met A Lady (1936, William Dieterle)
- Marked Woman (1937, Lloyd Bacon)
- Kid Galahad (1937, Michael Curtiz)
- That Certain Woman (1937, Edmund Goulding)
- It’s Love I’m After (1937, Archie Mayo)
- Jezebel (1938, William Wyler)
- The Sisters (1938, Anatole Litvak)
- Dark Victory (1939, Edmund Goulding)
- Juárez (1939, William Dieterle)
- The Old Maid (1939, Edmund Goulding)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, Michael Curtiz)
- All This, and Heaven Too (1940, Anatole Litvak)
- The Letter (1940, William Wyler)
- The Great Lie (1941, Edmund Goulding)
- The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941, William Keighley)
- The Little Foxes (1941, William Wyler)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942, William Keighley)
- In This Our Life (1942, John Huston)
- Now, Voyager (1942, Irving Rapper)
- Watch on the Rhine (1943, Herman Shumlin)
- Old Acquaintance (1943, Vincent Sherman)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943, David Butler)
- Mr. Skeffington (1944, Vincent Sherman)
- Hollywood Canteen (1944, Delmer Daves)
- The Corn is Green (1945, Irving Rapper)
- A Stolen Life (1946, Curtis Bernhardt)
- Deception (1946, Irving Rapper)
- Winter Meeting (1948, Bretaigne Windust)
- June Bride (1948, Bretaigne Windust)
- Beyond the Forest (1949, King Vidor)
- All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- Payment on Demand (1951, Curtis Bernhardt)
- Another Man’s Poison (1951, Irving Rapper)
- Phone Call from a Stranger (1952, Jean Negulesco)
- The Star (1952, Stuart Heisler)
- The Virgin Queen (1955, Henry Koster)
- The Catered Affair (1956, Richard Brooks)
- Storm Center (1956, Daniel Taradash)
- John Paul Jones (1959, John Farrow)
- The Scapegoat (1959, Robert Hamer)
- Pocketful of Miracles (1961, Frank Capra)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, Robert Aldrich)
- The Empty Canvas (1963, Damiano Damiani)
- Dead Ringer (1964, Paul Henreid)
- Where Love Has Gone (1964, Edward Dmytryk)
- Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964, Robert Aldrich)
- The Nanny (1965, Seth Holt)
- The Anniversary (1968, Roy Ward Baker)
- Connecting Rooms (1970, Franklin Gollings)
- Bunny O’Hare (1971, Gerd Oswald)
- Madame Sin (TV) (1972, David Greene)
- The Judge and Jake Wyler (TV) (1972, David Lowell Rich)
- The Scientific Cardplayer (1972, Luigi Comencini)
- Scream, Pretty Peggy (TV) (1973, Gordon Hesser)
- Burnt Offerings (1976, Dan Curtis)
- The Disappearance of Aimee (TV) (1976, Anthony Harvey)
- Return from Witch Mountain (1978, John Hough)
- The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV) (1978, Leo Penn)
- Death on the Nile (1978, John Guillermin)
- Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (TV) (1979, Milton Katselas)
- The Watcher in the Woods (1980, John Hough)
- Little Gloria… Happy at Last (TV) (1982, Waris Hussein)
Damned impressive.
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What a talent and a trailblazer.
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Eric this seems the place to be for the info I need but first you gonna hate me LOL. Somehow I’ve managed to go through life without seeing hardly any Bette Davis films! Yeah I know 😦 But on a positive note, that means I have tons to watch for the very first time. I’ve seen “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte” and she popped up in Alec Guinness’s “The Scapegoat” but apart from them that’s it. I have “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” ready to go soon and I have “The Nanny” to see. Thing is I read it’s her older stuff she really shines in and you sound the knowledgeable guy to point me in the right direction. Thanks and all the best. Mikey
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Baby and The Nanny are fantastic! Very clever thrillers. BTW, If you like thrillers, The Petrified Forest, The Letter and Deception are tons of fun.
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Thanks Eric. I’ve been waiting to watch Petrified Forest for while now, especially as I’m working my way through Bogies films. You know what I never realised Bette was in this until a fellow blogger posted about it. So I will be ticking two actors off in one go on that one….. Can’t wait to see the others you mention, The Letter and Deception are added to the list. Got some fun hours ahead of of me. Thanks
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So many I haven’t seen
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You need to! Take a little break from your writing … BTW, I finished your book, and enjoyed it immensely! — I have recommended it my friends! 🙂
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