The Lonely Life An Autobiography eBook Bette Davis
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Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time, and updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death.
As Davis says in the opening lines of her classic memoir "I have always been driven by some distant music--a battle hymn, no doubt--for I have been at war from the beginning. I rode into the field with sword gleaming and standard flying. I was going to conquer the world." A bold, unapologetic book by a unique and formidable woman, The Lonely Life details the first fifty-plus years of Davis's life--her Yankee childhood, her rise to stardom in Hollywood, the birth of her beloved children, and the uncompromising choices she made along the way to succeed. The book was updated with new material in the 1980s, bringing the story up to the end of Davis's life--all the heartbreak, all the drama, and all the love she experienced at every stage of her extraordinary life.
The Lonely Life proves conclusively that the legendary image of Bette Davis is not a fable but a marvelous reality.
The Lonely Life An Autobiography eBook Bette Davis
If you are a fan of Miss D, you will totally enjoy this autobiography; it's like listening to her on a talk show, so candid and self assured, as she always was. It only makes you realize once more, there was only one Bette Davis and we shall never see the likes of her again!Product details
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The Lonely Life An Autobiography eBook Bette Davis Reviews
This is an excellent autobiography written by the lady herself. I never even knew this book existed until it was mentioned on TCM during a Bette Davis movie marathon in April. Published in 1962--it was written at least a year before her work on "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" so no mention is made of the film since the experience had yet to happen. But what you get in this book is a real sense of who Bette Davis was and how she became the great legend we all know & love. Her opinions, philosphies (rants?) on Hollywood, acting, actors, actresses, men and sex are worth the price of the book alone--which BTW was a real steal @ only $6!!! She makes no bones about her notorious ability to go on a film set & wreak havoc "I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business." Her strong bond with her self-sacrificing mother Ruthie is the central theme throughtout the book. Her relationships with the phycially abusive men in her life is the real tragedy here. The title "The Lonely Life" comes from her personal beleife that "One cannot rely on people. One has only ones work to sustain him at the end of the day". And at the end of the day, Bette had her work and what a body of work it was! If you are a Bette Davis fan and you have't read this book, you must get it.
I thought this was a very interesting book written to share the facts concerning the illustrious career of Bette Davis. It is honest, giving her opinions and observations of a great actress who had to fight for every script and many of her characters. She was even forced to go to court to win the right to accept work in Europe since Warner Bros. insisted she play parts that were distasteful to her. She lost the case but won the war.
I liked her honesty regarding both her personal and public life. She was willing to open up regarding marriages, reasons for divorces, children and friends.
I would highly recommend this book to all of her fans and followers, or anyone contemplating becoming an actor.
Bette Davis gives an open and honest analysis of her personal life and career during the Golden Years of Hollywood. Though some of her actions and opinions may seem very non-PC to 21st century readers, her attitudes about being valued as a woman with a career and children were ahead of their time. She does not describe the lonely life of an artist to generate empathy or garner pity, but to explain her understanding of what must be sacrificed when one gives herself over to her art. There is no doubt Bette Davis made this sacrifice willingly and felt great satisfaction in her accomplishments. We, her audience, are the beneficiaries.
Excellent and revealing ..you can almost picture her talking to you as you read in that fantastic voice of hers. Great Lady ..Great Actress.
I am so happy that Bette Davis took the time to write his beautiful autobiography describing her childhood and her unwavering drive.
I am so happy that Bette Davis took the time to tell the story of her life and fabulous acting career. I thought I knew what she was like until she shared the pain of her father's rejection. How she her mother and sister were virtually homeless until she became a successful Hollywood actress. She suffered at times, but the greatest happiness she had was from acting and her children. I enjoyed The Lonely Life very much.
Very much of its time. The self-assured, "yes-I'm-a-goddess-and-I-know-it" tone isn't one that would fly with readers today, but Bette was Bette and didn't know how to be anybody else. And clearly, she was right not to be, as a fabulously successful career spanning nearly 60 years indicates. There are flashes of admission that perhaps she, too, shared part of the blame for failed relationships, but for the most part she sticks to her guns, for better or for worse, and doesn't let pesky conscience get the better of her! She also addresses, in the update/epilogue, penned nearly 30 years after the original release, the allegations in her daughter B.D.'s book, just as she did in her earlier "This And That." Her final entry was written mere days before her death of cancer in France in 1989, and the last entry is written by her assistant Cathy. She truly kept right at it until the very last, and for that, one can only respect her, as she really respected her art.
If you are a fan of Miss D, you will totally enjoy this autobiography; it's like listening to her on a talk show, so candid and self assured, as she always was. It only makes you realize once more, there was only one Bette Davis and we shall never see the likes of her again!
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