Show Business: Just a Dame from New England

Bette Davis celebrates 50 years in films

Her guest has spilled some coffee on the table, and quicker than you can say Oops! the little woman in trousers and a rakish jockey cap has mopped up the mess. "There, that's fine," she says, looking down in satisfaction. "Viva towels are so much better than Bounty." Then, listening to herself, she laughs, hoots, cackles­there are no mere giggles from this lady. "I sound like a television commercial, don't I?"

Not really, not ever. The famous lines of Bette Davis are as fixed in the national...

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