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Actor: Bette Davis

Bette Davis fought Warner Bros. in court over her contract, lost, and came back with the strongest run of any actress of the studio era. Three of her films are reviewed here: All About Eve at 9 out of 10, Now, Voyager at 8 and Death on the Nile at 7. The Academy Award statuette is nicknamed Oscar partly because of her.

Bette Davis in a scene from All About Eve, looking over her shoulder with dramatic intensity in a classic Hollywood setting.

All About Eve (1950) Review

All About Eve (1950) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The best script ever written about ambition, in a film where everybody is intelligent and nobody has to be dim for the schemer to win. Fourteen nominations,…

Bette Davis in a white gown and cropped hair on a cruise ship deck, transformed from her earlier dowdy appearance.

Now, Voyager (1942) Review

Now, Voyager (1942) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A woman boards a cruise as her mother's property and comes back a person. The most famous cigarette in cinema, and a last line that refuses the ending…

Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot stands on the deck of a paddle steamer, the Nile River and Egyptian landscape visible behind

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Death on the Nile (1978) Review

Death on the Nile (1978) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Christie on a paddle steamer with a closed passenger list and a cast of stars. The correct way to film a detective novel, and the only…