Bette's 100th Birthday

Mon, 03/31/2008 - 6:02pm by amy

"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.