“Getting old is not for sissies.” ― Bette Davis, born on this day in 1908 Stream 24 of her finest performances now: http://flms.tk/fb | FilmStruck

Bette Davis in Cabin in the Cotton Sorry to interrupt your little tete a tete The Cabin in the Cotton is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll. The film perhaps is best known for a line of dialogue spoken by a platinum-blonde Bette Davis in a Southern drawl -- "I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."—a line lifted directly from the book. In later years it was immortaliz

Remembering Bette Davis and Henry Fonda in... Jezebel is a 1938 American romantic drama film released by Warner Bros. and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell, and Fay Bainter. The film was adapted by Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston, and Robert Buckner, from the play by Owen Davis Sr. The film tells the story of a headstrong young Southern woman during the antebellum period whose act