Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fay Bainter
New Orleans, 1852. Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) and her fiancé, Preston Dillard
(Henry Fonda), have a stormy relationship. He won't go with her, as promised, to
collect her decorous white dress for t...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 1, 1997
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September 29, 2009I'm not taken in by Bette Davis's star power. I didn't like her character. I didn't care what happened to her character next. This movie wasn't as grandly epic as Gone With the Wind. It doesn't have as much substance to its melodrama.
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May 28, 2008bette davis often flatters herself in her elder years by claiming she could have played "gone with the wind" if she wants to, but she refuses it becuz it has too many similiarities with william wyler's "jezebel" and she's reluctant to play insolent southern belle all over again. ...( read more)
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July 7, 2008A movie about a Southern Belle which could be described as Gone With the Wind but half as long and much less expensive, which isn't entirely a bad thing. I'm never comfortable with movies that glorify the Antebellum-era south, it always seems to me akin to a nostalgic view of Naz...( read more)
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September 9, 2009A superb Bette Davis film, she is well cast as the tempestuous Southern belle. She won an Oscar for her acting. Henry Fonda is fine, but as expected, Bette dominates the film. Good supporting cast, the art direction and costumes are magnificent.
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June 26, 2009I guess I should watch these in chronological order, because I feel like I've seen the one about the harpie shrew who manipulates men before one of them dies in a duel and she realizes she's been a bitch and is now reformed before.
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April 9, 2009the best of the woman films of the 30's and Bette Davis showing how to really play a southern belle before scarlett did it.
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December 2, 2008As "Hollywood's second favorite portrayal of a spoiled Southern belle," the film is subject to inevitable comparison to Gone With the Wind. Obviously less grandiose, yet with a fairly generous budget, Wyler still fittingly captures the South in a refreshing way that steers away f...( read more)
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November 28, 2008I can watch this movie again and again, she is something else. But then I love watching old classics over and over again anyway.
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November 9, 2008This is classic Bette Davis. She's so manipulative but you can't help but root for her.
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