Bette Davis Movies

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is...

A respected but struggling interior decorator from a wealthy background moves in with some of her clients in order to meet their specific needs. In...

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab...

Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect the fractures in the American image of women....

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.

In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his...

In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can...

A short documentary about the Bette Davis film, The Star from 1952.

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.

A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies of the '70s. Features a chain of your divas...

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of sound and color changed movies.

On February 22, 1986, Bette Davis received an honorary César award – and presented one to the Cinémathèque...