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Chapters: Rod Steiger, Marty Feldman, Fritz Lang, Bette Davis, Scatman Crothers, Ernie Kovacs, Charles Laughton, Josh Ryan Evans, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Webb, Roy Campanella, Ricky Nelson, Brittany Murphy, Bobby Fuller, Gene Autry, Paul Winfield, Richard Farnsworth, Telly Savalas, Leo Durocher, Bob Kane, Lucille Ball, Liberace, John Ritter, Clarence Johnson, John Gilbert, Stan Laurel, Andy Gibb, Orry-Kelly, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Dorothy Lamour, Julie London, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Lantz, Albert R. Broccoli, Ann Harding, Dick Wilson, Donald O'connor, Mary Brian, Marjorie Main, Brad Davis, Jill Ireland, Antonio Moreno, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Edie Adams, Edward Coxen, George "Gabby" Hayes, Forrest Tucker, Claire Windsor, Judith Barsi, Ozzie Nelson, Rex Ingram, Bert Convy, Burt Mustin, Carl David Anderson, Jess Willard, Sabu Dastagir, Harriet Nelson, André de Toth, Lamont Bentley, Reginald Denny, Gail Davis, Olan Soule, Melvin Franklin, Porter Hall, Harriet E. Macgibbon, Marie Wilson, Bill Cody, Jr., Ann Little, Haven Gillespie, Dar Robinson, Horace Heidt, George Zucco, Priscilla Bonner, Jason Robards, Sr., Paul Zastupnevich, Al Viola, Sue Williams, Diane Linkletter, Bill Williams, Don Alvarado, Otto Kruger, Claire Whitney, Lloyd Bacon, Jack Nimitz, Clarice Sherry, Ruth Royce, David Bailey, Betty Francisco, Harry Ackerman, Ralph Yearsley, Robert Arthur, Joe Brooks, Robert Francis, Katherine Victor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 569. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63517 ... Read more

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From bestselling author James Spada comes a biography of one of the few genuine Hollywood legends - Bette Davis. Revealing a life replete with scandal, sex, violence, courage and sacrifice, BETTE DAVIS: MORE THAN A WOMAN is the fruit of three years of painstaking research, including in-depth interviews with Davis' relatives, colleagues and friends. It is a portrait of one of the most complex and misrepresented women in Hollywood history, and details many of the trials and traumas that were to shape her troubled life: her strangely close relationship with her mother; her ambivalent attitude towards sex; her possible role in the brain damage of her adopted daughter and her stormy, roller- coaster marriages. ... Read more