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All This and Heaven Too (1940) starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer

All This and Heaven Too

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All This and Heaven Too (1940) starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer

Synopsis of All This and Heaven Too

All This and Heaven Too: In 1840’s France, a governess falls in love with a duke. This leads to disaster for her when the wife dies, and she becomes a suspect. In addition, the death turns out to have major political impact for the entire country.

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The Petrified Forest

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The Petrified Forest (1936) starring Leslie Howard , Bette Davis , Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis of The Petrified Forest

In The Petrified Forest, Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart stars as Duke Mantee, an escaped convict who holds customers hostage at a remote desert diner.

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All About Eve

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All About Eve (1950) starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill

All About Eve: Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride. This is the story of an aging actress, undone by a young, ambitious fan. Sophisticated performances by Davis, Sanders and Baxter shine in this scathing look at the world of the theater.

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They’re Either Too Young or Too Old [song lyrics]

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Song lyrics to They’re Either Too Young or Too Old (1943). Music by Arthur Schwartz, Lyrics by Frank Loesser. Performed by Bette Davis in Thank Your Lucky Stars

They’re either too young, or too old
They’re either too gray or too grassy green
The pickings are poor and the crop is lean
What’s good is in the army
What’s left will never harm me

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Marked Woman

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Marked Woman (1937) starring Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis

Young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict gang of racketeers, its czar and his underlings. But when the gangster suspects her, she becomes a Marked Woman.

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The Whales of August

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The Whales of August (1987) starring Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern

Synopsis of The Whales of August

The Whales of August – Summer in Maine: things are changing. Two elderly widowed sister share a seaside home there.  Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth.  A home where they’ve summered for 50 years. Libby is blind, contrary, and seemingly getting ready to die. Sarah is attentive to her sister, worried about continuing to care for her, and half interested in an old Russian aristocrat who fishes from their shore. It’s the eve of Sarah’s 46th wedding anniversary. The Russian offers some fish he’s caught, Sarah invites him to dinner, and Libby gets her back up. Sarah wonders if it isn’t time to sell the place and find a home for Libby. What alternatives do old people have?

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Thank Your Lucky Stars

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) starring C.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall, Edward Everett Horton, Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie

Synopsis of Thank Your Lucky Stars

In Thank Your Lucky Stars, theater producers (Horton and Sakall) are staging a wartime charity program.  However, the production is taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).

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Mr. Skeffington

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Mr. Skeffington (1944), starring Bette Davis, Claude Rains

Product Description of Mr. Skeffington

 Bette Davis stars as a beautiful but vain society woman who, to pay her brother’s gambling debts, marries a financier she does not love — Mr. Skeffington. The marriage does not last, and the former Mrs. Skeffington flits from beau to beau casually leaving a trail of broken hearts. But when she contracts a near-fatal case of diphtheria, her beauty is destroyed by the terrible scars left by the disease. Now middle-aged, scarred and unable to win men’s hearts with her beauty, she finally finds love with the now-blind man she had wed years before–Mr. Skeffington

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