Intimate Portrait Bette Davis (1996)

Margo Channings famous line Fasten your seatbelts Its going to be a bumpy night characterizes well the actress who played her in All About Evethe inimitable Bette Davis In fact Daviss son comments in Lifetimes Intimate Portrait Bette Davis that watching Margo Channing is much like watching Bette Davis Daviss film career spanned six decades in which she starred in 112 films receiving 10 Academy Award nominations and 2 Oscars Yet her life was not always the charmed one of a starlet from a broken home herself three times divorced once widowed betrayed by her own daughters scathing biography Davis found solace in her work which didnt always come easy for her When she first approached Hollywood in 1930 the studios didnt know what to do with such an odd beauty This portrait of the actress covers a lot of ground and leaves you wanting more