Mr Skeffington: Bette Davis stars as a beautiful but vain society woman who, to pay her brother's gambling debts, marries a financier she does not love--Mr.Skeffington. The marriage does not last, and the former Mrs. Skeffington flits from beau to beau casually leaving a trail of broken hearts. But when she contracts a near-fatal case of diphtheria, her beauty is destroyed by the terrible scars left by the disease. Now middle-aged, scarred and unable to win men's hearts with her beauty, she finally finds love with the now-blind man she had wed years before--Mr.Skeffington Dark Victory: Bette Davis' bravura, moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, remains a three-hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn't pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory's story rights. Jack Warner finally did so skeptically. Who wants to see a dame go blind? he asked. Almost everyone: Dark Victory was Davis' biggest box-office hit. The Letter: Bette Davis stars as a wife, liar, adulterer and murderer who convinces everyone she is actually a victim ... until the truth is revealed in The Letter. On a steamy, moonlit Malaysian night, Leslie Crosbie (Davis) repeatedly shoots Geoffrey Hammond. Leslie claims she was defending herself and her honor from a drunken Hammond, a story accepted by her husband, Robert (Herbert Marshall), and her attorney(James Stephenson). Even as Hammond's widow (Gale Sondergaard) presents a letter proving adultery, Robert forgives Leslie and pays the blackmail. One way or another, however, a woman as shamelessly evil as Leslie Crosbie will receive justice in this classic drama. Now, Voyager: A tender love story, a taut psychological drama, an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual transformation. Now, Voyager is all three, as well as a Bette Davis career milestone. She magically plays Charlotte Vale, a spinster who defies her domineering mother to discover love, heartbreak and eventual contentment.More magic is generated by a top-notch ensemble, Max Steiner's score and an improvised moment by Paul Henreid that became an instant classic: he lights two cigarettes at once and hands one to Davis. For the ultimate in romantic melodrama, it's Now Voyager now, then and forever.
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Product Key Features
Actor
Bette Davis, Gladys Cooper, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Walter Abel, George Brent, Gale Sondergaard, Herbert Marshall
Director
Vincent Sherman, Edmund Goulding, William Wyler, Irving Rapper