Am I the only one who turns away at this scene? I can tollerate the scream, but have to turn away. The same is true of Joan Crawford in Whatever Hapend To Baby Jane? I can't watch the scene with the rat. The first time I saw that, I was about ten, and ran out of the room screaming louder than Joan.
All in all, I feel sorry for Edith, but the one who really got hurt was her frind Jim.
I love that scene, it's one of the greatest Bette moments on screen. She was so magnificent to the point that makes one believe that she really got burned. I love Baby Jane, Charlotte and Nanny, but Dead Ringer has always been my most favorite from that peculiar period of her career.
Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
My all time favorite Bette Davis movie is All about Eve. She was also great in Whatever happened to baby Jane, though I'm not a huge Joan Crawford fan. Bette was Margo in every way. But it was in Dead Ringer that you see her at her best. As I say, the poker scene gets me every time.
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You mentioned my three favorite movies of hers when I was a little hirl....Dead Ringer, The Nanny and Whatever...Baby Jane. As a little girl, I always thought of her as a middle-aged-to-older actress, just because of these three films. But now, I ADORE her in just about everything. But, my favorite of hers, so far (and I don't think anything else can compare to it, because I love music, and I love Paul Henreid) is "Deception". That film is OUTSTANDING!!!!
shareI am most fond of Now Voyager, then All About Eve.
shareI would say that "Old Acquaintance" contains her best performance, nex to "Now Voyager". She looks so intelligent in "Old Acquaintance". And quite attactive too.
shareThis moment is what I remember from seeing this when it would play on TV in the afternoons, after school. It was like, YUCK!
share___While a good scene, you can see in body movements just off camera as Bette is relieved of the actual hot poker, replaced by a nice manageable cold one. That garb she has around her head and old lady nightgown really make her appear her real age, rather than a woman around 40-ish.
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