Bette Davis Speaks

Some resident reviewers say that this is Bose's book made up about Bette. There is enough material here that reads like the Bette we all read about, to make a good read with confidence she pitched her remarks where she wanted them to go. The only dubious report is Bose getting her in interview to almost admit to her affair with Howard Hughes whereas our Bette was quoted as saying she was "the only star in Hollywood who didn't... Read Full Review

This book is really worth buying and reading over and over if you are a Bette Davis fan. I have read a great deal of Bette Davis-related books over the years, and this book contain about 80% fresh materials, which is nothing short of a miracle more than 10 years after her death. The style of the book is simply the text of several extended interviews the author had with Miss Davis, as well as with others who had worked... Read Full Review

She called Merle Oberon a social climber, Spencer Tracy a mean drunk and said that Fred MacMurray was "personality minus." Queen of the Silver Screen Bette Davis definitely had a way with words, and readers have an opportunity to delight in her ascerbic, no nonsense go-for-the-jugular outlook. The work is a compilation of more than a dozen interviews conducted with the author from the mid-1970s until her death in which she... Read Full Review