Pride is a sin - just ask Bette

The Independent on Sunday | August 6, 2006| | Copyright

In 1937, Bette Davis made a picture called Marked Woman. Humphrey Bogart plays a New York district attorney (modelled on Thomas E Dewey, who ran against Truman in the 1948 election) who is trying to break the mob control of prostitution. He hopes to persuade several girls to testify against their cruel boss, Eduardo Ciannelli. To frighten her, the gangster gives Bette's character a merciless beating. The director told her to play her next scene so bandaged up she could have been anyone.

So, in her lunch break, Bette went to see her own doctor. "I've been beaten up," she said. "My face ...

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