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The Bette Davis Collections

#1 Post by Gigi M. » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:44 pm

Yes!!! Keep them coming WB:

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Bette Davis Collection Volume Twofor 30th May 2006. Following on the heels of the spectacular success of WHV's first Davis collection released last year, the studio has prepared another set of releases that are sure to please the huge fan base that still recognizes Miss Davis as one of the screen's great legendary talents.

Highlighting this new Collection are the revered 1962 thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? newly remastered and available as a Two-Disc Special Edition and a new edition of the classic Jezebel, which earned Davis her second Best Actress Academy Award(R) and has been restored from the original camera negative and remastered for optimum picture quality. Also featured in the Collection are The Man Who Came To Dinner, Marked Woman and Old Acquaintance -- all making their DVD debuts. Old Acquaintance is making its long-awaited home video debut, having never been available in prior years on either videocassette or laserdisc. All three of these other films have been meticulously restored from their original nitrate camera negatives for superior presentation.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Two-Disc Special Edition will be available for $26.99 SRP, while the single disc titles will sell individually for $19.97 SRP. The price for the entire seven-disc Collection is $59.92 SRP.

The extensive bonus materials include an additional bonus disc containing the exclusive-to-the-Collection Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, a brand-new feature length documentary narrated by Susan Sarandon, which has been produced and directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Peter Jones (Goldwyn, Glorious Technicolor).

We'll bring you more detailed specs soon.

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#2 Post by viciousliar » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:28 pm

While I do welcome Old Acquaintance and a fresh remaster of Baby Jane - one of the entries in the very first WB DVD batch way back in 1997, I believe - I'm not happy about the other choices. In The Man Who Came to Dinner Bette plays an insignificant secondary role in a film that belongs to Monty Woolley. In Marked Woman, she's good as one of the chief hookers, but in reality this is a vehicle for Humphrey Bogart - whose career WB started to build at the time. No doubt the inclusion of this film is intended to attract Bogie fans. Jezebel bores me to tears - the clever direction cannot disguise the fact that it's mainly about Bette wearing a red gown at some goddamn yankee ball inappropriately, and the consequences she has to suffer from this choice. FLIMSY story!! If I could have had my wish, I would substitute Marked Woman with Deception - Bette's last great film for WB. Would also have preferred her fiery portrayal in Dangerous over her tepid, badly dated Jezebel. Lastly I would gladly replace The Man who Came to Dinner with the fun, unconventional The Great Lie or the supreme bitch hysterics she mustered for In This Our Life. And give me Beyond the Forest any day - her strut along the sidewalk is priceless, and is the stuff that dragqueens' dreams are made of. It also contains the classic line(in order to establish La Davis as a sharp-shooter) - when she seemingly without any sane reason shoots a squirrel dead from a distance, offering us the reason - "I don't like them, they annoy me - they irritate me" - or words to that effect. Camp doesn't get any better than this.

It's also annoying that the two previously promised docs seem to have been dropped - including Bette Davis - the Benevolent Volcano and a feud doc re Bette and Joan - that's probably still on, though - the second disc of the SE of Baby Jane needs this.

In the article above it's mentioned how well the first Bette box sold - does this imply that the first Crawford set didn't meet expectations and a second one has therefore been dropped? No mention of a release thus far, perhaps WB are probing the possibilities of including Letty Lynton in that set, but haven't succeded yet? So they're holding back details on the next Joan installment because of this? Perhaps this is only wishful thinking. Only time will tell, but this certainly constitutes a question that will be brought up in the forthcoming WB chat.

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#3 Post by tavernier » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:05 pm

Here's the press release:

THE BETTE DAVIS COLLECTION VOLUME 2 ON DVD MAY 30


Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? Two-Disc Special Edition, Jezebel (Both Newly Restored & Remastered)

Old Acquaintance (Home Video Debut), Marked Woman, The Man Who Came To Dinner (All Three New to DVD)

Bonus Features Include Stardust: The Bette Davis Story Narrated by Susan Sarandon (Exclusive to the Collection), Commentaries from Experts, Featurettes and Documentaries


Burbank, Calif. February 13, 2006 - On May 30, Warner Home Video honors one of the most acclaimed and admired actresses of her generation with the debut of The Bette Davis Collection Volume Two. Following on the heels of the spectacular success of WHV's first Davis collection released last year, the studio has prepared another set of releases that are sure to please the huge fan base that still recognizes Miss Davis as one of the screen's great legendary talents.

Highlighting this new Collection are the revered 1962 thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? newly remastered and available as a Two-Disc Special Edition and a new edition of the classic Jezebel, which earned Davis her second Best Actress Academy Award® and has been restored from the original camera negative and remastered for optimum picture quality. Also featured in the Collection are The Man Who Came To Dinner, Marked Woman and Old Acquaintance -- all making their DVD debuts. Old Acquaintance is making its long-awaited home video debut, having never been available in prior years on either videocassette or laserdisc. All three of these other films have been meticulously restored from their original nitrate camera negatives for superior presentation.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Two-Disc Special Edition will be available for $26.99 SRP, while the single disc titles will sell individually for $19.97 SRP. The price for the entire seven-disc Collection is $59.92 SRP.

The extensive bonus materials include an additional bonus disc containing the exclusive-to-the-Collection Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, a brand-new feature length documentary narrated by Susan Sarandon, which has been produced and directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Peter Jones (Goldwyn, Glorious Technicolor).

Often dubbed the "Fifth Warner Brother" for her confrontational, take-charge approach, Bette Davis earned an impressive 10 Oscar® nominations (winning twice for her roles in Dangerous and Jezebel) during the course of her legendary 60-year career. Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts and made her Broadway debut in 1929 in "Broken Dishes" before settling in Hollywood in 1931. Following a short stint with Universal, she signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros. where she made more than 50 films and was the studio's most bankable asset until 1949. Her breakthrough performance (and first Oscar nomination) in Of Human Bondage opened the studio's and Hollywood's eyes to her immense talent and led to such classic films as Dark Victory, The Letter, Now, Voyager, The Little Foxes and All About Eve. Davis starred in more than 100 films, was the highest paid woman in America in 1942, became the first female honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award and was named the first woman president of the Motion Pictures Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Fans of Miss Davis will be pleased to know that they can look forward to future collections with new DVD releases containing more of the astounding films she made at Warner Bros. during her 17 year tenure with the studio. Some of these additional films (such as All This, And Heaven, Too, Dangerous, In This Our Life, The Corn Is Green, Watch On The Rhine and many others) are currently being restored from their original nitrate camera negatives, in anticipation of further Bette Davis DVD collections.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

The legendary dispute between rival divas Bette Davis and Joan Crawford fueled the fire both on- and off-screen in Director Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Its Grand Guignol story of an aging ex-vaudeville child star (Davis) waging a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled ex-movie star sister (Crawford) became a smash hit and nabbed Davis her 10th Academy Award nomination for her acid portrayal of the title role. Nominated for an impressive five Academy Awards (winning for Best Costume Design), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is a mirthful masterpiece of the macabre.

DVD Special Features:

· New 16x9 digital transfer from the original camera negative and restored audio elements (Enhanced for widescreen televisions)

· Commentary by author and film historian , Charles Busch and film historian John Epperson (a/k/a "Lypsinka")

· 3 fabulous documentary profiles of the movie and its 2 immortal stars:

o Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition (A new making-of documentary)

o All About Bette, Biographical profile, hosted by Jodie Foster

o Film Profile: Joan Crawford

· Vintage featurette "Behind the Scenes with Baby Jane"

· The Andy Williams Show

· Theatrical Trailer

· Languages: English & Français

· Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)


Jezebel

Nobody is better than Bette when she's bad and Jezebel gave her a meaty role she could sink her teeth into. Davis plays Julie, a New Orleans beauty whose constant attempts to goad fiancé Pres Dillard (Henry Fonda) to jealousy backfire. One of the most powerful moments in the film is when Julie wears a scandalous red dress to the White Ball, a moment so powerful that audiences decades later vividly remember seeing Davis in that red dress, although the film itself is in black & white. Angry and disgraced, Pres breaks their engagement and leaves town. Julie is remorseful until Pres comes home --married to another woman.

Jezebel is also noted for its sumptuous sets and lavish costumes, Fay Bainter's Oscar-winning performance and William Wyler's vivid direction, highlighted by a horrifying recreation of a yellow fever epidemic. But the film's greatest strength is Davis, whose titanic talent has never been better displayed than in Jezebel and the film won Davis the 1938 Best Actress Academy Award.

DVD Special Features:

· New digital transfer from the original nitrate camera negative and restored audio elements

· Commentary by film historian Jeannine Basinger

· New featurette Jezebel: Legend of the South

· Vintage 1938 Warner Bros. musical short Melody Masters: Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

· Classic 1938 Warner Bros. cartoon The Mice Will Play

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Feature Film Only)


The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942)

After a string of high-powered, emotional performances, Bette Davis took a rare back seat to another performer with the uncharacteristic role of an unflappable secretary in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Monty Woolley reprised his George S. Kaufman/Moss Hart Broadway triumph as the imperious "Sheridan Whiteside" in this delightful, lightning-paced farce. The Man Who Came to Dinner focuses on famed author Whiteside (Woolley), an esteemed critic who possesses a sharp mind and an acid tongue. While on a lecture tour in Ohio, Whiteside slips on some ice and is confined to the home of a bourgeois couple (Billie Burke & Grant Mitchell). He proceeds to plunge the household into complete chaos, ruling the place like a czar and meddling in everyone's love life. Davis's star wattage was seriously rivaled by Hollywood's "Oomph Girl," Ann Sheridan, who had one of the best roles of her career as a Broadway star (a thinly-veiled caricature of Gertrude Lawrence). In fact, the film was a veritable roman-a-clef, with Woolley's character a dead ringer for critic Alexander Woollcott, "The Great Schnozola" Jimmy Durante as "Banjo" (an on-the-mark takeoff of Harpo Marx) and Reginald Gardiner as "Beverly Carlton" (spoofing Noel Coward).

DVD Special Features:

· New featurette The Man Who Came to Dinner: Inside a Classic Comedy

· Vintage 1942 Warner Bros. Joe McDoakes comedy short , So You Think You Need Glasses

· Vintage Warner Bros. musical short featuring the singing group Six Hits and a Miss

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Feature Film Only)


Marked Woman (1937)

Warner Bros. was justifiably famous in the '30s for its series of gritty, hard-hitting male-centric gangster dramas ripped from the newspaper headlines (Little Caesar, The Public Enemy), but Marked Woman offered a rare depiction of the women victimized by the mob. Bette Davis (who won a Best Actress award for the role from the Venice Film Festival) plays Mary Dwight in a fictionalized account of the real-life prostitutes whose testimony put gangster Lucky Luciano behind bars.

Marked Woman marked the return to the screen by Davis, who waged a long battle against Warner Bros. in an effort to have greater control over her screen material. While she lost the battle, she won the war and the respect of the studio who greeted her return with this strong film. Davis tore into the role with all the passion at her considerable command and made audiences sit up and take notice. The picture is also notable as the fourth (of six) screen pairings of Davis with Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, To Have and Have Not), who has a rare good-guy role (as a crusading prosecutor), since at this point in his career he was mostly playing vicious second leads in gangster yarns.

DVD Special Features

· New featurette Marked Woman: Ripped from the Headlines

· 2 classic Warner Bros. cartoons:

o Porky's Hero Agency

o She Was an Acrobat's Daughter

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Feature Film Only)


Old Acquaintance (1943)

Bette Davis's most notable Hollywood feud was with the volatile, beautiful and talented Miriam Hopkins (Trouble in Paradise, The Story of Temple Drake, These Three) whose abundant screen-stealing abilities caused sparks to fly during their first film together, The Old Maid (1939). Re-teaming the two temperamental actresses gives their onscreen chemistry together an electrifying jolt.

In Old Acquaintance, writer Kit Marlowe (Davis) possesses one thing all her own: literary acclaim. But the rest of her life is lived second-hand. Her melodramatic best friend Millie (Hopkins), who pens trashy potboilers, has the husband Kit loves and child Kit yearns to call her own. Yet through 20 years of friendship, Kit keeps her claws sheathed as volatile Millie smashes crockery and has the vapors. Then when Kit meets an exciting new man, Millie throws a tantrum - and the claws finally come out. Often hilarious and always moving, Old Acquaintance (remade as 1981's Rich and Famous) is the delicious tale of two lifetimes. Davis and Hopkins are simply magnificent as they love, blame, battle and forgive their way through a dead-on depiction of what we all gain - and lose - in a lasting friendship.

Long desired by film buffs, Old Acquaintance was one of a handful of truly great films that never made it to home video during the technology's first 25 years. WHV is proud to finally bring this beloved Davis classic to DVD for its home video debut, restored from its original nitrate film elements.

DVD Special Features:

· Commentary by the film's director Vincent Sherman and Bette Davis Speaks author Boze Hadleigh

· New featurette Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture

· Vintage 1943 Warner Bros. short Stars on Horseback

· Classic 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon Fin'n Catty

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Feature Film Only)


STARDUST: THE BETTE DAVIS STORY (2005)

This new, in-depth documentary Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, narrated by Susan Sarandon, tells the whole dynamic story of the woman dubbed by film historian John Kobal as "the most starry of actresses, the most actressy of stars." Utilizing vintage film clips, TV interviews, newsreels, stills and reminiscences from stars and others who knew her, Stardust paints a picture of a powerhouse who survives personal and professional ups-and-downs that would have crushed mere mortals. It's not for nothing that Bette Davis's tombstone reads "She did it the hard way."

Produced by Turner Classic Movies and Warner Home Video, this new feature-length documentary is a stylistic triumph from Emmy-Award winning documentarian Peter Jones, who has gathered an impressive gallery of talents who knew and worked with Davis to share their thoughts including Jane Fonda, Gena Rowlands, James Woods, and her former lover and director Vincent Sherman. There is also an impressive array of rare artifacts from Davis' own memorabilia and keepsakes on display to truly tell the story of a complicated, yet brilliant and immortal talent whose qualities can never be equaled.

THE BETTE DAVIS COLLECTION VOLUME 2

Street Date: May 30, 2006

Collection: $59.92 SRP; Individual Prices Noted Below

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story is in color. All Other Titles Are B&W & Not Rated

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#4 Post by zedz » Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:17 am

viciousliar wrote: In Marked Woman, she's good as one of the chief hookers, but in reality this is a vehicle for Humphrey Bogart - whose career WB started to build at the time.
Quite possibly, but I recall this as a great little film with a terrific turn from Davis, more than holding her own.

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#5 Post by Gigi M. » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:10 pm

From Barrie Maxwell column at the Bitsabout more Bette Davis releases:
In its press release for this collection, Warners also notes that "fans of Miss Davis will be pleased to know that they can look forward to future collections with new DVD releases containing more of the astounding films she made at Warner Bros. during her 17 year tenure with the studio. Some of these additional films (such as All This, and Heaven Too, Dangerous, In This Our Life, The Corn Is Green, Watch on the Rhine and many others) are currently being restored from their original nitrate camera negatives, in anticipation of further Bette Davis DVD collections".

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#6 Post by justeleblanc » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:03 pm

gigimonagas wrote:From Barrie Maxwell column at the Bitsabout more Bette Davis releases:
In its press release for this collection, Warners also notes that "fans of Miss Davis will be pleased to know that they can look forward to future collections with new DVD releases containing more of the astounding films she made at Warner Bros. during her 17 year tenure with the studio. Some of these additional films (such as All This, and Heaven Too, Dangerous, In This Our Life, The Corn Is Green, Watch on the Rhine and many others) are currently being restored from their original nitrate camera negatives, in anticipation of further Bette Davis DVD collections".
If only Ozu had this 17 year run at Warner....

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#7 Post by tavernier » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:08 pm

gigimonagas wrote:From Barrie Maxwell column at the Bitsabout more Bette Davis releases:
In its press release for this collection, Warners also notes that "fans of Miss Davis will be pleased to know that they can look forward to future collections with new DVD releases containing more of the astounding films she made at Warner Bros. during her 17 year tenure with the studio. Some of these additional films (such as All This, and Heaven Too, Dangerous, In This Our Life, The Corn Is Green, Watch on the Rhine and many others) are currently being restored from their original nitrate camera negatives, in anticipation of further Bette Davis DVD collections".
If you'd read my own post of the Warner release, you wouldn't need the Bits! :shock:

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#8 Post by Gigi M. » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:15 pm

tavernier wrote: If you'd read my own post of the Warner release, you wouldn't need the Bits! :shock:
You're absolutely right. My bad.

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#9 Post by viciousliar » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:29 am

tavernier wrote:Here's the press release:
Thanks for providing the press release, this clip contains some delicious slapping/tussling just before it concludes, when Bette lets some brat have it - and it looks very real(the editing aside) - :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqqc-VPUoo

BTW, more Bette DVDs are coming up - Satan Met a Lady is included in WB's forthcoming Maltese Falcon box. The Virgin Queen is scheduled for a UK release by Fox. Finally, The Anniversary will debut in the US on Anchor Bay shortly.

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#10 Post by Gregory » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:52 pm

That last clip is from Storm Center.
viciousliar wrote:BTW, more Bette DVDs are coming up
I also expect Three on a Match or Ex-Lady could be included in Warner's first big batch of pre-code releases this year.
I was really hoping to see The Old Maid and Beyond the Forest get released this year but with all this already announced it probably won't happen.

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#11 Post by viciousliar » Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:07 pm

The Old Maid is a wondrous film - I agree, Gregory. It contains one of Bette's most poignant and controlled performances. We'll probably have to wait at least two years before we see a DVD release. Ditto for Beyond the Forest. Thanks for commenting on my post.

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#12 Post by viciousliar » Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:26 pm

davidhare wrote:I agree with vicious and gregory. I would have done a switch with Jezebel and Marked Woman for Cabin in the Cotton and Beyond the Forest.
Your sense of judgement is as accurate as ever, my friend. ;)

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#15 Post by skuhn8 » Thu May 25, 2006 11:06 am

gigimonagas wrote:Beaver
And the commentary on Jezebel is form Jeannine Basinger, who gives a very entertaining commentary on Philadelphia Story. She and the "nerd" from American Splendour must be siblings.

Lame post. Sorry.

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#16 Post by Matt » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:00 pm

Old Acquaintance is insane. It's basically a minor Bette Davis melodrama--except when Miriam Hopkins is on the screen. Hopkins spends all of her time on screen--from first moment to last--in a fifth-gear snit worthy of John Barrymore's Oscar Jaffe. Even in the very last scene--full of melodramatic reversal, recognition, and reconciliation--she only just manages to stop short of a spit take. It's a shame that no one else in the film is in on the joke (except for a couple of very brief winks from Davis).

I never thought much of Vincent Sherman as a director, but having seen both this and Mr. Skeffington (surely B.D.'s strangest, most stylized performance) recently, I'm beginning to think he might have been some sort of mad genius to elicit these kinds of performances.

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#17 Post by Lino » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:45 pm

I have been fighting the urge to buy this and the other Davis set because I am crossing my fingers that next year Warner will release a sort of Bette Greatest Hits in commemoration of her 100th Birthday, collecting all her best classics in one set akin to the Astaire and Rogers one from last year.

But I'm curious: if such a thing was to happen, what titles would they include in a, say, 15 disc set?

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#18 Post by shearerchic » Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:03 am

Lino wrote:I have been fighting the urge to buy this and the other Davis set because I am crossing my fingers that next year Warner will release a sort of Bette Greatest Hits in commemoration of her 100th Birthday, collecting all her best classics in one set akin to the Astaire and Rogers one from last year.

But I'm curious: if such a thing was to happen, what titles would they include in a, say, 15 disc set?
I highly doubt they would combine the films from the last 2 sets. But if they did a 15 film set, it should look something like this:

-Juarez
-The Old Maid
-Cabin in the Cotton
-Dangerous
-Front Page Woman
-The Great Lie
-All This And Heaven Too
-In This Out Life
-Bordertown
-Watch on the Rhine
-A Stolen Life
-Deception
-Beyond the Forest
-The Corn Is Green
-The Catered Affair

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#19 Post by ByMarkClark.com » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:24 am

Bette Vol. 3 would HAVE to include DANGEROUS, THE OLD MAID, THE CORN IS GREEN and CABIN IN THE COTTON (and something else, probably A STOLEN LIFE) ... wouldn't it?

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#20 Post by shearerchic » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:12 am

ByMarkClark.com wrote:Bette Vol. 3 would HAVE to include DANGEROUS, THE OLD MAID, THE CORN IS GREEN and CABIN IN THE COTTON (and something else, probably A STOLEN LIFE) ... wouldn't it?
i'd like:

-dangerous (sure bet)
-the old maid
-all this and heaven too
-beyond the forest
-in this our life

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#21 Post by ByMarkClark.com » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:36 am

Actually, I meant IN THIS OUR LIFE when I typed A STOLEN LIFE!

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#22 Post by filmnoir1 » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:47 am

DVD Beaver indicates that there is another Bette Davis boxset on the horizon which will include the following titles: All This and Heaven Too, Watch on the Rhine, Dangerous, In This Our Life and The Corn is Green.

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#23 Post by Matt » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:27 pm

Solid films all around, but nothing really great. Still waiting on most of the totally mad early stuff like Three on a Match, Ex-Lady, and Bordertown. Speaking of which, why do we still not have a Paul Muni collection?

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#24 Post by shearerchic » Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:24 am

filmnoir1 wrote:DVD Beaver indicates that there is another Bette Davis boxset on the horizon which will include the following titles: All This and Heaven Too, Watch on the Rhine, Dangerous, In This Our Life and The Corn is Green.
it also said, "plus others." I wonder if this will be a big centennial set like Garbo's??

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#25 Post by starmanof51 » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:12 pm

The Bette Davis Collection Volume 3

[quote]BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On April 1st Warner Home Video (WHV) marks the return of the incomparable First Lady of Warner Bros., Bette Davis, with the debut of "The Bette Davis Collection Volume 3" honoring the legendary actress on what would have been her centennial birthday. The six-disc gift set will include six fully restored titles: "In This Our Life"; "The Old Maid"; "All This, and Heaven Too"; "The Great Lie"; "Deception" and "Watch on the Rhine." "The Bette Davis Collection Volume 3" will sell for $59.92 SRP.

"In This Our Life" (1942)

Two-time Best Actress Oscar® winners and lifelong friends Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland square off as sisters (guess who's the bad one) in "In This Our Life," a must-see for fans of melodrama at its juiciest.

"The Old Maid" (1939)

Based on an Edith Wharton novel and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "The Old Maid" tells the sad story of Charlotte, a woman whose circumstances force her to give up her illegitimate child and pose as the child's “old maidâ€

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