Status Update

[Name Redacted] is 65% done

VERY glad I picked up Leaming's biography. Most of the others are straight hagiographies or salacious exploitation material -- Leaming just gives you thoroughly-researched, exhaustively-documented facts. And the fact is that Davis was a deeply troubled woman who suffered from the consequences of a tumultuous childhood with an absentee father + a manipulative, suffocating mother...& took it out on EVERYONE around her.

— Jul 17, 2020 01:18AM

Like flag

[Name Redacted]’s Previous Updates

[Name Redacted] is finished

— Jul 18, 2020 12:42AM

[Name Redacted] is 45% done

— Jul 15, 2020 05:14PM

[Name Redacted] is 29% done

This is painful. Every other bio of Bette Davis I've read, including the one about her rivalry with Joan Crawford, takes Davis' public word as gospel...except it turns out that what Davis publicly said often contradicted the facts AND what she wrote/said in private. We have the receipts. This is no hagiography, just an unflinching look at who she was. It's not pretty, just sad.

— Jul 14, 2020 12:56AM

[Name Redacted] is 29% done

— Jul 13, 2020 07:44PM

[Name Redacted] is 5% done

— Jul 11, 2020 11:39AM

[Name Redacted] is 2% done

— Jul 09, 2020 04:54PM

Post a comment »
Comments Showing 1-2 of 2 (2 new)

date

newest »

message 1: by Reader (new)

Jul 17, 2020 02:08AM

I've seen her daughter on YouTube. Her daughter claims she was a witch.

reply | flag

message 2: by [Name Redacted] (last edited Jul 17, 2020 02:59AM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Jul 17, 2020 02:56AM

Yyyyyyup.

The irony is that she deeply resented her father for cheating on her mother, leaving them, then neglecting them... So of course she cheated on each of her husbands, left them, then neglected their kids.

reply | flag

[Name Redacted]’s Reviews > Bette Davis: A Biography > Status Update

[Name Redacted]’s Previous Updates

Post a comment »Comments Showing 1-2 of 2 (2 new)

Post a comment »
Comments Showing 1-2 of 2 (2 new)