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By Kirtley Baskette
On her last visit to New York, Bette Davis took in a Broadway play one evening with an old girl friend. At intermission time, Bette started for the lobby and a cigarette. The audience popped up, en masse, stretching necks, craning for a look. Bette stared at the rising crowd.
"What is it — the Seventh Inning?" she whispered to her friend. "Why is everybody stretching? What are they looking at?"
Her friend laughed. "Don't you know?"
"No," replied Bette impatiently. "What is it?"
"You, Silly. They're staring at Bette Davis!"
"Why?" asked Bette. "What's wrong with me?"
That may sound incredible, but Bette Davis is an incredible person. Hollywood has never boasted a more universally acclaimed, distinguished dramatic actress. In Bette's Hollywood career she has collected more Academy nominations, critics' kudos and world-wide bows than any other star. She has been swamped with glamour and smothered with success. Millions have envied and copied her. Bette has had enough honors heaped on her ashblond head to set it spinning like a top.
Yet today, Bette Davis is as unimpressed, unfeazed and unflattered as the day she arrived from skeptical, practical New England. There's not an ounce of pretense or pose about her, and she's strictly allergic to sham. As a Hollywood natural in a land of make-believe, that alone makes Queen Elizabeth an outstanding freak.
Bette Davis was born in April, which makes her an Aries person. Thumbing through my zodiac book for a clue to Bette, I find Aries people do such startling things as eat, sleep, breathe, dislike pain and enjoy pleasure. But one special item hits Bette right on the button: "Those born under the influence of Aries," {Continued on page 88)
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Long famous for her infectious giggle, she s got Arthur doing it, too. Her role of a 39-year-old in "Watch on the Rhine" requires padded togs which leave her prostrate under heat of kliegs!
for a dozen solid gold Oscars!
iecember, 1942
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