Bette Davis Collection – Volume Three
Bette Davis Collection – Volume Three
All This and Heaven Too (1940)
Deception (1946) – if A Stolen Life (1946) doesn’t serve as the end point of Bette Davis’s 10+ year run of unsurpassed greatness of films then this ill-named drama certainly does. Not that Ms. Davis isn’t terrific in it especially as she matches talents with the equally able Claude Rains but the "deception" itself is as all but non-existent as the rest of the plot in this one – a love triangle which also includes Paul Heinreid. We can all be thankful that the "great Bette" was able to give us more examples of her immense talent some years later in films like the Academy Award winning Best Picture All About Eve (1950) and her characterizations in (e.g.) The Catered Affair (1956) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).