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Bette Davis: A Biography

Bette Davis: A Biography

by Barbara Leaming (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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    Hardcover 1992

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Synopsis

Bette Davis was one of the greatest acting talents the screen has ever known. She was also one who aroused controversy: her legal battles with Warner Brothers; her four husbands; the shocking book written by her daughter. In this fascinating, in-depth biography Barbara Leaming has had numerous conversations with those closest to Bette Davis - her friends, lovers, associates and family members (including her daughter) - and has also drawn on Davis's personal diaries, scrapbooks and unpublished letters. The result is a fascinating portrait that redefines one of Hollywood's most misunderstood legends.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 07 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0752827170
ISBN 13: 9780752827179
Book Overview: Published alongside Barbara Leaming's highly acclaimed biography of Marilyn Monroe Barbara Leaming is an extremely talented, and respected, biographer whose previous bestsellers include biographies of Orson Welles and Katharine Hepburn 'Barbara Leaming's definitive study goes significantly beyond a sensitive portrait of the star and her career, as it expands into a penetrating analytical probe of the tragically self-destructive course of her life' Backstage 'Fascinating ... an important work' Variety 'A strong, poignant biography that has truth-telling power' LA Times.

Author Bio
Barbara Leaming is one of America's premier biographers. With the help of Orson Welles she was the first to write a serious biography of this noted director and actor. Her other subjects include Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy. She is married and lives in Connecticut.