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  1. #BehindTheScenes
    #TheLittleFoxes (1941)
    The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.

    #BetteDavis and makeup artist Perc Westmore.

  2. Movie TV Tech Geeks #MusicFeatures #Music #BetteDavis #Rock The Biggest Song of the 1980s Spent 9 Straight Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dlvr.it/TPThMx

  3. "Lullaby of Broadway" is a #popular #song with music written by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #AlDubin, published in 1935. The lyrics salute the #nightlife of #Broadway and its denizens, who "don't sleep tight until the dawn." The song was introduced by #WiniShaw in the #musicalFilm #GoldDiggersOf1935, and, in an unusual move, it was used as background music in a sequence in the #BetteDavis film #SpecialAgent that same year. Furthermore, again that year.
    youtube.com/watch?v=E9nu_0oco68

  4. Menacing Southern Gothic - 1960s style.
    Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland in Robert Aldrich’s Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

    Do NOT annoy Olivia de Havilland while she's driving!
    Classic--menacing film noir. Happy Halloween.

    #happyhalloween #hushhushsweetcharlotte #classicmovie #movieclips #bettedavis #southerngothic #filmnoir

  5. “The Letter” (1940, dir. William Wyler), starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, and Frieda Inescort.
    Belgian bilingual film poster (Flemish and French).

    TAGS: #TheLetter #WilliamWyler #BetteDavis #WarnerBros #WarnerBrothers #FilmTalk #FilmHistory #MovieHistory #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema

  6. "Lullaby of Broadway" is a #popular #song with music written by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #AlDubin, published in 1935. The lyrics salute the #nightlife of #Broadway and its denizens, who "don't sleep tight until the dawn." The song was introduced by #WiniShaw in the #musicalFilm #GoldDiggersOf1935, and, in an unusual move, it was used as background music in a sequence in the #BetteDavis film #SpecialAgent that same year. Furthermore, again that year.
    youtube.com/watch?v=X1FSnkmYmEs

  7. Bette Davis Eyes

    Actress Bette Davis discusses the song Bette Davis Eyes with Gloria Hunniford in a 1987 interview.

    The song, performed by Kim Carnes in 1985 reached #1 on the Billboard charts for a 5 week run. It was written by Donna Weiss + Jackie DeShannon

    Bette Davis passed away in 1989

    #bettedavis #bettedaviseyes #musichistorycorner #musicworld #music #gloriahunniford #jackiedeshannon

  8. 3 things about Robert Aldrich’s WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? [1962]

    1. A perfectly ordinary lambchop.
    2. “You mean all this time we could have been friends?”
    3. Seeing her reflection in the mirror, she breaks down sobbing. Then Blanche starts buzzing again and again.

    #3things #horrormovies #bettedavis #joancrawford #camp #cinema #robertaldrich #movies

  9. #ClassicMovies #BetteDavis #LeslieHoward

    Wondering how I'd never seen this before today. Sheesh. Davis's character was a real piece of work.

    Given that it was released in 1934, the melodrama must have seemed very fresh and real.

    Um, not so much today, but it was a good movie!

    imdb.com/title/tt0025586/