BETTE DAVIS "WHITE MAMA" 1980 (2/11)

In the last years of her life, Bette Davis spoke lovingly of her Emmy-nominated performance in White Mama, a favorite of her latter-day films, and considered it part of her Silver Age of films in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, which included 1979s Emmy-winning performance in Strangers: The Story of a Mother And Daughter opposite Gena Rowlands and 1983s Right of Way, for which she and co-star Jimmy Stewart received Cable ACE Nominations, Miss Davis felt that she was being afforded better scripts than she had been since her Warner Bros. Golden Age. This period produced a small but ever-watchable cluster of films which gave Bette a platform to expand the horizons of womens possibilities on film over the age of seventy while introducing a new generation to her mastery of the acting craft.
In honor of the New Year, New Decade, and this films 30th Anniversary, I hope you will cherish my personal favorite of Miss Daviss last films.

Directed by Jackie Cooper
Written by Robert C. S. Downs
Originally aired on March 5th, 1980
Recommended by The National Education Association
96 minutes

HAPPY 2010 EVERYONE!!
WE LOVE YOU FOREVER MISS DAVIS!!!!!

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