BETTE DAVIS Lights A Cigarette For...BETTE DAVIS!

NOW ON DVD EXCLUSIVELY FROM WARNERARCHIVE.COM IN A REMASTERED EDITION!!

THE single most classic scene from 1946s A STOLEN LIFE, the enormously successful noir-flavored melodrama in which Miss Bette Davis plays feuding New England twins in love with the same man (Glenn Ford).

Directed by the great Curtis Bernhardt, who would later direct Joan Crawford to an Academy Award nomination in 1947s POSSESSED and Bette Davis once more in the gem PAYMENT ON DEMAND, A STOLEN LIFE was the last bona fide box-office blockbuster of Bette Daviss reign as the Queen of Warner Bros. It is also notable as the only film that she ever produced, for her Warner Bros. production company B.D. Inc, and would have been the first of five planned productions had fate not had a different future in store for Miss Daviss film career. Although it failed to earn her a deserved Academy Award nomination at the time and remains unreleased on DVD, A STOLEN LIFE is one of the most essential and thoroughly entertaining of all Bette Davis films and proof positive that her creative genius would have taken viewers to wonderful new places if she had continued to evolve as a producer.
I hope you will enjoy this highlight from a bona fide 1940s classic and one of Bette Davis's most delicious cinematic treats.

VIVA LA BETTE!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bette
• Davis
• Bette Davis
• A Stolen Life
• Stolen Life
• 1946
• Warner Bros
• Old Hollywood
• Glenn Ford
• melodrama
• noir
• film noir
• love story
• WWII
• post-war
• wartime
• Curtis Bernhardt
• not on DVD

[chotzrary]

Simply terriffic, great acting by Bette Davis in one of her underatted films. Not to mention the flawless effects, how did they manage the cigarette exchange?

[bg11215]

Her hair is so full and bouncy.

[booboo64ish]

Brilliant how did they do that no green screen in those days!

[patriciaisaias54]

excelente película . no soy contemporánea a la época en que Bette Davis filmo pero me encanta ver buenas películas antiguas. y esta actriz fue una de las mejores de su época quien sabe como puedo conseguir la película ???

[paulj0557]

Oh' my, how did they do that? The bed scene you can see a bit, but I can't tell if the real shot is of on the right or left ( facing the screen). Is this film anywhere to be seen online ( even if a torrent??).

[WalterLiddy]

Technically brilliant - seamless. The ONLY sort-of problem is that it's so busy that you find yourself admiring the shots and forgetting to listen to the dialogue.

[24fans4life]

LOL the title of this video just made my life

[17evergreen]

I cannot understand why this film is so under rated by critics and the general public, it is one of her finest films, it hasn't even had a full DVD release, the version that is available is very limited and is only a DVD-R and they are made to order.

[scotnick59]

God! what an AMAZING actress Bette was!!!

[mooooogrl]

Thats incredible!