"Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star," said the inimitable Ms. Davis, who would have been 100 Saturday, April 5. After an auspicious start as a cockney tart in Of Human Bondage and a three-film partnership with the great women's director William Wyler (Jezebel, which she donned with Academy award-winning panache after being passed over for the role of Scarlett O'Hara, The Letter, and The Little Foxes), Davis, who was nominated for 10 Oscars over the course of her career, proved she could take on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly with equal passion. Watch her play all three as aging actress Margot Channing, her best role, in the wonderful All About Eve.

I was looking at some of her movies in the catalogue... and it still lists her as alive (that is, it says Bette Davis 1908-). Does the catalogue know something we don't?

Quite talented.. more of your musings please!