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Annoying voice, chicklet teeth, unattractive.

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___I have to agree about her teeth. Of all people, Hollywood stars have the best access to methods to make them attractive. I could never understand Bette not doing more to enhance her smile. Ditto Judy Garland, Eleanor Parker.

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There's nothing wrong with her teeth, or Garland's or Parker's.

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"Annoying voice" HA !
First time I've heard of this.
Plus she could look really good in the 30s-40s-50s.

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Bette Davis had to always be the center of attention!! She was real jealous of other actresses and would sometimes use her clout to sabotage other actresses careers!!

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I tend to believe that's not true. She was really the first woman who actually attempted to choose the films she starred in - a true trailblaizer. She took no *beep* that's for sure. But because she was the first woman in hollywood to actually take matters in her hands, the first one to actually rule over men, myths about her spread like the famine. There have been many instances that actresses who were going to work with her were told that she was going to impose her presence and not let them do their job. After working with her, these actresses admitted that she was nothing like that at all. What is true is that she cared too much about the pictures she made and wouldn't let anyone get in the way of her work. She was more of a hard-worker and less a saboteur.

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[–] asterisgrammatosis-65560 7 years ago
I tend to believe that's not true. She was really the first woman who actually attempted to choose the films she starred in - a true trailblaizer. She took no *beep* that's for sure. But because she was the first woman in hollywood to actually take matters in her hands, the first one to actually rule over men, myths about her spread like the famine. There have been many instances that actresses who were going to work with her were told that she was going to impose her presence and not let them do their job. After working with her, these actresses admitted that she was nothing like that at all. What is true is that she cared too much about the pictures she made and wouldn't let anyone get in the way of her work. She was more of a hard-worker and less a saboteur.

Oh please, you sound just as bad as Brando's stans. Bette Davis was far from the only actress, much less the first, to fight the studios or do any kind of "trailblazing."

Mae West, Jean Harlow, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Katherine Hepburn, Olivia De Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Ida Lupino, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Bancroft, etc. are just a handful of actresses that are just as great, if not greater "trailblazers" and many of them superior performers to La Davis, but a fraction of the colossal ego, bad behaviour, and without distastefully shoving themselves down people's throats (minus Mae West).

Hell, even Katherine Hepburn showed more moments of humility and kindness than Davis did. She was only decent to actresses who she didn't consider a threat to her in any way.

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Her voice was the worst! Her walk was just as bad. Her face wasn't very attractive. No fashion sense. Was short. Aged terribly. That's just the beginning...

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The only negative thing about her is that she wasn't able to live forever.

Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop

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Plus she could look really good in the 30s-40s-50s.

Fact is, she looked like crap in the '50s. In the early '40s, she suddenly started to age rapidly, and by the end of that decade, she looked fifteen years older than her actual age.

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