She'll Tease You, She'll Unease You
Filed under: Lindsay Lohan > Paris Hilton
They just don't make 'em like they used to!
The original diva, Bette Davis, is being honored starting Thursday with a 42-cent commemorative stamp. The stamp features the actress as she appeared in the 1950 film All About Eve. In the classic movie, she portrays an aging stage actress defending her career from a pushy young starlet.
Davis starred in more than one hundred films since her early start, during which she won acclaim for playing tough unsympathetic characters, and during her career she was nominated for more than ten of her roles. She won an Oscar in 1935 for Dangerous and in 1938 for Jezebel.
Aging with grace and style, she used the experience her years had earned her to portray a tormented former child star in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, garnering yet another Oscar nomination.
Stirring up drama with a style that Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton could only dream of, Davis was rumored to be occasionally difficult to work with and was even involved in a feud with fellow diva Joan Crawford, which both denied.
They were probably lesbian lovers secretly!
Davis died in France in 1989, choosing the epitaph "She did it the hard way" to celebrate her perseverance and success as a woman in a male-dominated industry. She was, after all, the first woman to be honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award and the first woman to be president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Her composure, strength, and inexplicable appeal will always be remembered and is even honored in song in the Kim Carnes song Bette Davis Eyes, which was just covered by Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester.
Her son, Michael Merrill, said of the postage stamp commemoration, "She would have been tremendously thrilled."
Live on, diva!
I love divas. will have to send some postcards with this stamp.
diva with talent.
diva indeed.
ONE OF THE GREATES ICONS IN HOLLYWOOD! LOVE HER!
Yay, you go girl!
Come on- you could have found a better category to archive this under!
I want to fuck those betty davis eyeballs out of her head.
FUCK YOUR SHIT IS SLOW PEREZ, DO YOU NEED ANOTHER COFFEE!!!!!
she had talent.
Re: LettyB – it was like this yesterday.
yawn.
It's about time I get my own stamp!
I'll bet this bitch fucked every guy in Hollywood. She probably was infested with every disease out there.
…love the idea as much as I love the slapping sounds in the song "Bette Davis Eyes"…
Re: Baby Jane – congrats doll!
Re: karencarpenter – aaarg… you will slowly drive me grazy with your trademark song name quotes
I want those stamps!
if this doesnt pick up i may be forced to actually do some work.
just proves you don't have to be pretty to be popular
Re: LettyB –
I think he wants us to get into a fight!
who wants to box?
Re: karencarpenter –
keep driving the R.abbit crazy..hahaha
Anyone see "Mommie Dearest?"
that's some scary shizzzz!
NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!!
sigh
No, Bette Davis was not a lesbian. Why do you have to throw sexuality into everything?
Most of these starlets these days will never come close to what Betty Davis was. She was the original DIVA.
Re: R.abbit – I'll let up..not here to annoy just to have fun!
Re: DaBitchIzIndakrazihouze – hmmm.wink…
Re: mama of 2 – work? nooo!!
PC Police airbrushed out the cigarette she was holding and it's not a very good job either.
Betty was not a diva, she was a STAR, a real actress with real talent.
There is no one in Hollywood today who can touch Betty Davis.
Betty Davis was big. It's the pictures that got small.
Re: karencarpenter – It was joke
keep up the good work
She's from the era when Hollywood had class. All the good stuff was covered up and all anyone heard was rumors. Now all the stars are so overexposed that they're boring. Old Hollywood was awesome with so many scandals that they make today's stars look like sissies.
WHAT A DUMP!
Re: PoisonBitchyIvy –
You have her confused with your MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Furbyfucker –
That was Joan Crawford. get your divas straight.
One of my favorite actresses, though I m not so sure whether she was a very pleasant woman in reality….
Re: Baby Jane –
Right! *G*
Re: ChihuahuaBama –
Right. The scandals of Mary Miles Minter, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Nazicova, Valentino… - you can still watch some very old footage on youtube on it, by the way.
I love to watch them for hours, much more entertaining than nowadays' Hollywood…..
she was more than a diva.
SHE'S A HOLLYWOOD ICON. A REAL ACTRESS. SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE.
Beautiful! I'll be sure to pick these up. But I'm REALLY wanting Gloria Swanson commemorative stamps!
Who would wanna lick Betty Davis….(other than Joan Crawford, of course!)
Delightful
AN ORIGINAL FEMINIST! A REAL WOMAN!
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AN AMAZING, TOUGH AS NAILS, BALL BUSTIN' BROAD!! (LOVE THE WORD BROAD)
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IF THE LITTLE SNATCHES PARIS AND LINDSAY WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN AROUND IN HER DAY, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN NOTHING MORE THAN ROAD KILL WHICH WAS ONLY IRRITATING BECAUSE MS DAVIS WOULD HAVE TO TAKE TIME TO COMMAND SOMEONE TO WASH HER CAR TO REMOVE THE SLIME LEFT ON THE BUMPER!
Ah, one of my favorite old time actresses, if not my favorite. Congrats Ms. Davis.
Happy Birthday Bette! As I am your male reincarnation I will drink a martini i n your honor. Maybe three…I will of course throw one at Joan Crawford's picture!
Look at her fingers… There was originally a cigarette in them. They got rid of it.
Um, Perez the words are "She'll tease u, she'll ADHESE
u, just 2 please u.." Just sayin….'Unease u'? is that even a WORD?
I fucking love this woman. She's a total icon. They definitely don't make 'em like they used to. One of the BEST actresses of all time. I'm getting me these stamps, hell yeah!
I hope they put Joan Crawfords eyebrows on a stamp.
Love Bette Davis eyes! I'd buy that stamp!
Its about time!
I loved Betty Davis in Jezebel.
What a talented and intelligent actress.
It's too bad that right now we don't have anyone like what we had in old Hollywood.