Movie Log 2006 #16: Another Man's Poison
One gets the idea the songwriters never actually saw her films and the words "Bette Davis" were inserted into the famous song about her eyes just to fit the meter. Her eyes are her least appealing feature: buggy, baggy, wrinkled, rolling...of course this was 1952, a couple of years past All About Eve and nearly 20 years after the big break in Of Human Bondage. Still, I can't think of anyone this side of Ron Jeremy who had such a fruitful career playing supposedly seductive characters, yet who was so homely. Despite all that, this was a pretty good, not so stagey adaptaton of a murder/con stage mystery.