Movies: Bette Davis

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs....

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....

Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances....

A filmed production of the musical Miss Moffat based on The Corn is Green starring Bette Davis....

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones....

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography....

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Minnie, too, has built doll houses for years, and when she learns that she is terminally ill, she and her husband Teddy begin planning their joint s...

A respected but struggling interior decorator from a wealthy background moves in with some of her clients in order to meet their specific needs. In the process, she tends to become friends with the families and get drawn into their personal problems....

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed b...

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses....

A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies of the '70s. Features a chain of your divas including Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jeanne Moreau in Mademoiselle, Elizabeth Taylor ...

A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies....

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford....

Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London....

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities....

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of sound and color changed movies....

A documentary about the making of the 1950 film "All About Eve."...