Bette Davis Movies

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,...

Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect the fractures in the American image of women....

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...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

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...

Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.

A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.

On February 22, 1986, Bette Davis received an honorary César award – and presented one to the Cinémathèque...

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

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his...

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion...

Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive home movie footage, including footage from the...

In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is...

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually...

A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies of the '70s. Features a chain of your divas...

A short documentary about the Bette Davis film, The Star from 1952.

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...