BetteDavis – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

March 8, 2017 / Vickie Lester

“Until you’re known in my profession as a monster, you’re not a star.” Bette Davis

July 17, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should ALL be bigger than life.” Bette Davis

April 16, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“I’ve been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years – and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.” Henry Fonda

December 16, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Feeling as blissful as Bette for what’s to come, Christmas and a very creative New Year!

Hello, my angels! If you’ve been reading along on Beguiling you know I reverence Ms. Davis. She was bold and brilliant and always laid it on the line. In that spirit I am about to make some changes here on the blog which I hope you will enjoy, and which…

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August 15, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Vickie Lester goes all Hollywood in Boston (and reveals Bette Davis once posed nude)…

I was a little bored yesterday, but when you’re not working on set — that’s what happens when visiting. In general it was kind of a reminder (as I watched the filming) of how much I love the process. It’s a happy set, that can be rare, here it’s all…

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February 18, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“It Happened One Night,” and the first Oscar sweep…

Yes, a really static shot of a bunch of people who made motion picture magic… Elected officers and board of directors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 15, 1932. Left to right, seated, Al Cohn, B. P. Schulberg, Benjamin Glazer, new vice president; Conrad Nagel,…

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December 16, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The wry and wonderful Bette Davis has a unique perspective on Louella Parsons…

Bette Davis putting on a game face at William Randolph Hearst’s birthday party, wedged between Hearst and his minion, Louella. Interviewed by Dick Cavett, Bette has few things to say about Miss Parsons.

December 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Blessed Bette! It’s getting to be that time of year again. I’m going to get my tree this weekend…

October 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.” Bette Davis

October 7, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Fifth Warner Brother

Quick! What do the following films all have in common: Now, Voyager, Dark Victory, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Jezebel, The Letter, Mr Skeffington, The Little Foxes, and All About Eve? Okay, I know the answer is obvious – and the title of this tiny post is a…

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