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Payment On Demand (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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After years of driving her husband to succeed, ruthIess social climber Joyce Ramsey has driven him away. Bette Davis headIines this decades-spanning drama, originally titIed The Story of a Divorce, notabIe for its exemplary acting and unblinking portrait of the traumatic effect of divorce on a middle-aged woman. AIso notabIe: director Curtis Bernhardt's innovative handIing of the flashback sequences (including one that transforms the 42-year-old Davis into a ponytailed teen); Davis sharing the screen with one of her girlhood theater idols. Jane CowI ("l was unbelieving that I was pIaying scenes with her. l was nervous," Davis wrote in Mother Goddam); and Davis playing mother to a darIing blonde charmer who happens to be la Bette's real-life daughter, B.D. |
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