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Bette Davis, a Personal Biography
by Charlotte Chandler
Drawing on extensive conversations with Bette Davis during the last decade of her life, Charlotte Chandler gives us a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. (It was she who suggested that Chandler write this book.) ..... a brilliant portrait of an enduring icon from Hollywood's golden age and an unforgettable biography of the real woman behind the star.
"Davis is alternately imperious, catty, generous and self-dramatizing.... and Chandler complicates her version of events with commentary by colleagues, lovers and enemies. Still, artifice is the soul of Tinseltown, and in Davis's memoirs one hears the authentic, engrossing, gloriously manipulative voice of Old Hollywood." - PW.
"Readers will enjoy finding that her famously bombastic personality is allowed to shine through. " - Booklist.
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