The illuminating, comprehensive biography of Bette Davis, one of the
most electrifying Hollywood stars ever to grace the silver screen.
With a career spanning six decades and more than eighty films, Bette
Davis is synonymous with Hollywood legend. From her incandescent
performance as Margo Channing in All About Eve, to her terrifying,
psychopathic Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Davis
generated electricity wherever she appeared, whatever she did--and not
just on the silver screen. Her personal life was as passionate as her
career and was so fiery that it eventually consumed her.
In this landmark biography, Lawrence J. Quirk takes us behind the scenes
of all of Davis's movies, from her early unpromising roles, to her
commanding presence at the pinnacle of stardom, to her degrading
exploitation in horror films at the end of her career. Quirk delves into
Davis's four unhappy marriages, as well as her frosty, manipulative
relationships with her three children. Also revealed are her many
affairs through the years with leading men, bit players, servicemen
during World War II, and, very late in her life, much younger men, who
repaid her by using her and deserting her. Intense, volatile, ruled
often by her emotions, Bette Davis was described by one critic as "a
force of nature that could find no ordinary outlet."
Fasten Your Seat Belts brilliantly explores the life and career of
Bette Davis to show us the fascinating original she was.
