https://jinxy7.tumblr.com/post/181045950893/mudwerks-bette-davis-by-oscar-da-costa-british

http://mizworldofrandom.tumblr.com/post/180116774933/satan-met-a-lady-1936

http://mizworldofrandom.tumblr.com/post/179380683663/the-cabin-in-the-cotton-1932

http://tcm.tumblr.com/post/172623341156/petrasvonkant-bette-davis-in-dead-ringer-1964

Merry Christmas!

Bette Davis in Dark Victory  (Edmund Goulding, 1939)

“One does not go to see them act, but to watch them be.” - James Baldwin on the iconic movie stars John Wayne, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart.

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Rest in peace

Actress, Comedian Jan Hooks Dies At 57

To this day I quote her extensively from her Bette Davis sketch from SNL

https://screen.yahoo.com/video-000000540.html

Little Italy

  "Permeated by the passionate, vengeful Neapolitan spirit, despite a pleasing lack of half-intelligible broken English."

- The New York Times

New York, 1902. "Scene from Little Italy showing Minnie Maddern Fiske on bed, Frederic De Belleville kneeling, Claus Bogel seated with head bowed, and group of people in doorway." Little Italy, a "one-act tragedy of the East Side" by Horace Fry first performed in 1898, was revived on Broadway in 1902 for a 24-performance run at the Manhattan Theatre. Joseph Byron photo. View full size via SHORPY

Not an Italian name in the cast, I bet not even among the extras.  On a side note, in addition to the stage, Minnie Madden Fiske  also appeared in two silent films, "Tess of the D'Urburvilles" (1913) and "Vanity Fair" (1915). The acting style of a bygone era is referenced in "All About Eve" when Eve Harrington flings open the door and demands that Addison DeWitt get out, to which he blithely replies, "You're too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske."

How I left retail

And NOBODY could make a waffle like Bert Lahr!

see: https://screen.yahoo.com/video-000000540.html

It looks as if she's already dressed for a better event

 And pretty soon Joan will take her bottle of Pepsi and go.