I’ve always enjoyed Bette Davis as a film actress. Like a great jazz musician, her artistry was superb but she never quite fit in with the other actresses signed to studio contracts. As she said in interviews, she simply wasn’t pretty enough. [Photo above of Bette Davis courtesy of Corbis / Getty]
Davis had the looks of Betty Boop and the confidence and …
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