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DVD at last!

posted 20 years ago by FranLovesBetteD
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Perhaps you will not agree with me, but i think Dead Ringer is one of the most enjoyables and funniest movies that Bette Davis did makes during her career. Maybe this one is not one of her -in an usual sense- best movies, but, certainly is a GREAT ONE, in the same way of 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' or 'Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte'.

As always, her performance was SO GREAT, and the rest of the cast did a great job too.

A very important plus: the DVD contains great special features (interviews, documentaries, comments and the trailer from 1964). You must to watch it!

[–] SarahKayW 19 years ago

I just watched the DVD today! I adore the special features, gorgeous.

"My head just shakes but I promise it ain't going to fall off!"-Katharine Hepburn

[–] FranLovesBetteD 19 years ago

Can you see what i wanted to say? Totally agree with your opinion. I'm so glad because you think the same!

Thank you, Tracy, for writing

Fran.-

Come up and see me sometime...
-Mae West-

[–] LucythePunk 19 years ago

Margaret: You really hate me, don't you? You've never forgiven me in all these years.
Edith: Why should I? Tell me why I should!
Margaret: Well, we're sisters.
Edith: So we are. And to hell with you!

I agree, this film is great!
Nobody's as good as Bette
when she's bad. Dead ringer
is one of my favorite Bette
Davis films. What other films
do you all enjoy watching?

- Divine Dork

[–] FranLovesBetteD 19 years ago

Hey, Lucy! Thanks for writing.

This is one of my favorites Bette movies too. Sadly, it's very underrated, but for me it's a GREAT ONE. I think she was FABULOUS in both characters she played.

I can't understand why people just remember 'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane' and 'Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte'. 'Dead Ringer' IS in the same level of both ones.

What other films
do you all enjoy watching?

Oh, I do enjoy with EVERYONE of them, especially...

'Jezebel' (1938)

'Dark Victory' (1939)

'Beyond The Forest' (1949)

'The Letter' (1940)

'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane' (1962)

'Now, Voyager' (1942)

'The Petrified Forest' (1936)

'The Nanny' (1965)

'The Whales Of August' (1987)

'The June Bride' (1948)

'The Privates Lifes of Elizabeth and Essex' (1939)

'Mr. Skeffington' (1944)

So, which are your favorite Bette Davis movies?

Come up and see me sometime...
-Mae West-

[–] LucythePunk 19 years ago

Greetings, FranLovesBetteD! Nice to meet you!
Always nice to meet another Bette Davis Fan.

My favorite Bette Davis movies are:

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

The Nanny (1965)

All About Eve (1950)

The Little Foxes (1941)

The Letter (1940)

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

The Whales of August (1987)
(I also love this movie, because Vincent Price stars in it. I adore him!!) HaHa!

-Divine Dork

Take care, and talk to you later!

"The look of Horror spoils your lovely face"
- Vincent Price in House of Wax(1953)

[–] FranLovesBetteD 19 years ago

GREAT movie, isn't it? I adore its entire cast: everyone in it is simply fabulous.

I think it's not just a movie, but pure MAGIC! I always cry a lot while I'm watching it!

Best wishes.

Fran.-

Come up and see me sometime...
-Mae West-

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[–] FranLovesBetteD 19 years ago

Hi! I'm really glad you've enjoyed this wonderful movie [are we talking about 'Dead Ringer' isn't it?]. I mean, 'Dead Ringer' is actually underrated in these days. Maybe ain't the greatest Bette Davis movie, but is a real pleasure to watch her in a b-horror movie.

Certainly 'Dead Ringer' is in my Bette Davis Top Ten!

Thanks for writing.

Fran.-

Come up and see me sometime...
-Mae West-

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[–] FranLovesBetteD 18 years ago

Hey! How are you?

About "The Nanny", yes, I too heard some rumours about its possible re-release, maybe into the second Bette Davis DVD boxed-set! You can't imagine how much I hope so! Miss Davis was -as usual- so great in it! Just like she was in the great "Dead Ringer"!

Hey! Just for curiosity, why you don't like "The Letter"??? This is so weird... You're the first Bette fan that said that!

Best wishes.

Fran.-

Come and meet those dancing feeeeeet,
On the avenue I'm taking you to,
Forty-Second Street

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[–] FranLovesBetteD 18 years ago

Hey, J! How are you?

So, you like "Mr. Skeffington" now? GREAT! It became one of my Bette favorites just a few time ago too. I love EVERY scene in it. I think it is one of the most touching-exciting Bette movies ever!

About horror films, well, Miss Davis even did some horror movies in '70s and early '80s. Sadly, I just have seen a few of them. I liked "Burnt Offerings" (1976), but she just had a little role in it. Also "The Watcher In The Woods" (1980) was a good Disney movie.

But there is a Bette horror movie that I have never seen, and I really have so much curiosity about it: "Another Man's Poison" (1952). I guess it was her first suspense movie. It had bad reviews by the critics, but... WHO REALLY CARES?

Come and meet those dancing feet,
On the avenue I'm taking you to,
Forty-Second Street

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[–] FranLovesBetteD 18 years ago

Oh, I really wish to watch the movie right now!

I just have seen them -Bette and Merrill- togheter in "All About Eve", and I agree: they made a great couple. About the look, Miss Davis certainly looks quite sexy in the pictures of the movie!

Thanks for writing, Carmen!

Best wishes.

Fran.-

PS. I always loved her british accent too!

Come and meet those dancing feet,
On the avenue I'm taking you to,
Forty-Second Street

[–] Harold_Robbins 18 years ago

I'm actually in the process of re-watching ANOTHER MAN'S POISON - this film really seems to mark the beginning of the broad over-acting and exagerrated line-readings of which many of her subsequent performances consisted. She still had a touch of Margo Channing's glamour (thanks in part to that hair-style), but "frumpy" was right around the corner, unfortunately.

When the internet was invented, suddenly everyone became a critic!

[–] AliciaHuberman59 18 years ago

"Beyond the Forest", made begrudgingly at the end of her Warner contract, was the precursor of what would become the over-the-top trademark style of her later career.

"What a dump!"

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[–] TCall2004 17 years ago

Two more of Bette's films that I like.

BTW, I also ADORE Vincent Price....House of Wax is one of my all time favorite films.

[–] FranLovesBetteD 11 years ago

After 8 years of having originally posted this, I'm truly glad to learn that Dead Ringer has been recently released also on Blu-ray! I'm just curious about the print quality, though, since the DVD left much to be desired: the image is kind of grainy and fades constantly.

Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop

[–] alisotom 9 years ago

i love the part where she is trading clothes with her sister, so coldly and callously until she sees the watch!