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Bette DavisBarbara Leaming
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Bette Davis

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"By turns moving and chillling, Leaming's fascinating life story of Davis consistently transcends the 'star' genre to establish itself as serious biography." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From Barbara Leaming, the critically acclaimed biographer of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth.In this extraordinary biography, fans and film historians will discover a different, darker side of Bette Davis: a woman beset with scarring personal and professional doubts, a daughter whose mother was devoted to her success, and a mother who loved her own daughter to distraction. Obsessive and compulsive Davis was happy…

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Editions

6 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 1995
    Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786107025
  • Paperback · English · 1993
    Ballantine Books · 9780345382726
  • Other · English · 2003
    Cooper Square Press · 375 pages · 9780815412861
  • Other · English · 1993
    Penguin · 327 pages · 9780140138764
  • Other · English · 1992
    Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 327 pages · 9780297810889
  • Other · English · 1992
    Simon & Schuster · 397 pages · 9780671709556
Motion picture actors and actressesBiographieBiographyDavis, bette, 1908-1989