Bette Davis | Radio Star | Old Time Radio Downloads

Series	Episode title	Date
silver theater, the	broken prelude part 1	1938-12-11
silver theater, the	broken prelude part 2	1938-12-18
screen guild theater, the	can we forget	1939-01-22
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (245) dark victory (repeat)	1940-01-08
screen guild theater, the	a womans face	1942-04-19
Plays For Americans	plays for americans (20) adolf & mrs runyon	1942-06-21
command performance	bette davis john charles thomas georgia gibbs	1943-10-16
command performance	bette davis jimmy durante artie shaw	1944-06-10
mail call	bette davis bing crosby barry fitzgerald jack benny	1945-03-28
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (495) mrs skeffington	1945-10-01
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (578) a stolen life	1947-08-25
suspense	goodnight mrs russell	1949-10-20

I loved all Bette Davis movies ...

Marie

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Bette Davis one of. the all time greatest Actress..loved all her movies.

Franks

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All Bette Davis films were great.Now Voyager was my favourite.

Gail

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ALL of her movies were "great"? Hardly!

Rafe

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She's got Betty Davis eyes everytime I hear Betty Davis always think of that

Wayne

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Bette at her best. Love this movie!!

Gail

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I have seen every movie she made! love Bette

Judy

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Perfect performance from Bette.

Stephanie

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Love Bette Davis

Lucy

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My FAVORITE actresses, Bette Davis, in one of my favorite films, Now Voyager.

Willie

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Bette Davis-pure magic-there will never be another who can rival her-she was superb in everything she did.

Jennifier

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Bette Davis is still my all time favorite. Not one actress today can hold a candle to her flame. They're all so shallow.

Chuck

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Any movie that has Bette Davis in it is a winner!

Maureen

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My favorite actress Bette Davis awsome movies, they were all awsome!!!

Tammy

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Bette Davis, my all time favorite.

Faiza

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Love Betty Davis my favorite actress ever

Paulette

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Oh I love Betty Davis good actor

Lisa

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Love Betty Davis!

Carolyn

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Wonderful Bette Davis.

Sally

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My favorite actress!

Susan

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Fabulous Actress !!!!!

Clecio

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All time favorite actress

Cindy

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Great actress!

Michele

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Bette is my favorite! Love everything she has done!

Stacie

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She was extremely good at making her character unlikeable, and so good that some didn't like her personally. Not many actors are that good.

Jerry

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WHAT AN ACTRESS !!!

Mitch

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A wonderful actor. A true Hollywood original and a Star that will never stop shining.

James

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I love Bette Davis, I love all her movies!!!

Amy

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Love Bette she was a awesome actress. Love all her movies.

Joann

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Betty Davis, was one of the greatest actor I have ever seen.

Beverly

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One of my favorites actresses,

Christina

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Betty Davis was a Great actress

Judy

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She was a great actress

Maria

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Love Betty Davis...and all her movies

Mandy

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Betty was the best star in Holliwood. So dramatic.

Carmen

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Betty was the greatest actress of all time my fav,triffic ,

Caroline

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The fantastic Bette Davis.

Gail

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Love Bette Davis a great actress

Barbra

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Bette Davis was an exceptional actress. I have seen many of her movies. I am a true fan.

Michael

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Bette Davis was an exceptional actress. I have seen many of her movies. I am a true fan.

Michael

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Bette Davis is one of my favorite actress's

Sherry

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Bette Davis is one of my favorite actress's

Sherry

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Oh Bette u r so awesome

Jennifier

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She was the best!!!

Sheila

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Great and talented actress of all time

Belen

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The gratest actress

Simona

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Loved watching her movies.

Melinda

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She was so great that you could get lost in her movies and be her in them! The best of the best! !!

Kathryn

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She was the best.

Marlene

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An all time favorite.

Talor

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Loved Bette Davis

Lynda

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Very pretty.

Tricia

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Beautiful lady

Kathleen

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She was pretty

Sandi

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Loved Bette Davis she was wonderful in the film

Lynda

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Bette Davis was truly "Something Else" !!! Just marvelous -- and those "Bette Davis Eyes" !!! Wow !!

Sharon

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ULTIMATE ACTRESS

Constance

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Fabulous actress, one of my favorites. I will never tire of watching her movies!

Linda

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Brilliant Actress, loved her as 'Apple Annie'.

Eileen

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LOVED HER WORK. ONE OF THE BEST !

Anne

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A wonderful legacy.

Ptricia

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Great actress

Christine

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Beautiful talented actress.RIP

Haim

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I love Bette Davis and all her movies. She was the best.

Sue

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Bette was the best actress ever .

Vicky

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Bette was my favorite.

Angie

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Betty Davis is one awesome actress.

Vicki

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Bette is the best

Marcia

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Betty is my favorite. Still watch her movies.

Kathryn

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Loved Bette Davis xxx

Chris

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Wow! So young and beautiful, what a Babe she was!

Cathleen

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Loved Bette Davis she was one great actress.

Sue

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One of the best- so beautiful, talented, a class-act!!!

Rebecca

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Love Betty Davis!!!!

Terry

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Brilliant personality artist Movie Hollywood !!!!!!

Clecio

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My very favorite actress.

Sue

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Great actress! Bette Davis

Deborah

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Love Betty Davis

Joann

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great actress two time oscar winner and legend!

Kyle

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Bette Davis was the tops in my eyes her movies bad or good was the best I have a good few movies of hers xxx

Margo

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Great actress!

Carole

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I love Bette Davis

Donna

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So truly beautiful...

Billie

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My favorite actress!

Terri

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Always loved the beautiful, talented, Bette Davis heart emoticon

Cill

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Love her! Very versatile!

Merreideth

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Beautiful and love all her films.

Julie

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Great Actress !!!! Bette Davis !!!! Forever Eternity !!!!!!!

Clecio

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What a beauty and a great actress

Sally

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Betty Davis wonderful actress on all her films to many to mention

Linda

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Very talented actress. Good looking also.

Gerald

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Bette Davis was in a class of her own, all her movies are great and should be shown more often, great actress so talented. Miss these movies.

Liz

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I loved her hair. In "Now Voyager", she was my heroine in this film .. " Dark Victory", "Jezebel", right or wrong...strong emotions. I think it was, " Double Ringer" and I think, "Whales of August". "Of Human Bondage". " A Pocketful of Miracles". ( Apple Annie). There were so many. She was one tough lady, with style

Brenda

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All her movies are great. Great actress. My all time favorite is Whatever Happen to Baby Jane. It's campy, funny and great acting. Her and Joan Crawford were amazing. It's not up there with Jessabel, but a classic.

Willieame

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Bette Davis was in a class of her own. .I love all black White movies but no one dominated the screen like she did. . Best one ..hard to say but will go along with whatever happened to baby jane

Christine

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Everytime there is a movie with her I have to watch it. She was so unique! Her walk, her way of talking, her manerism. Everything about her fascinates me, all the.actrices then had such a unique personalities They were strong, very feminine ladies . They were not afraid to be whatever they wanted to be! What glorious time that must of been!

Luisa

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There is only one bette Davis there is no other. You will never find an actress of that caliber today. The best character actress.

Anthony

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She has always been my favorite star: Now Voyager; Dark Victory; Old Aquaintence; All About Eve; Baby Jane - just to name a few. I have most of the dialogue from Baby Jane memorized. She was the master of the classic line: "Fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy night!" I worshipped her. I met her in December 1968.. OH, let's not forget. . . . . . . "I'd like to kiss you but I just washed my hair."

Robert

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Ms. Davis in my opinion "All About Eve" was her best performance. "Now, Voyager" is my romantic favorite. A complex performance.

Anthony

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One of the greatest actresses that was ever around.

Brian

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All of them. She is my favorite actress. Love the movies of the 40's

Amy

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One of the True Greats!!My favorite actress

Pat

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Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history.Her performances in a range of film genres, crime melodramas to historical and her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. Davis was co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen and first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, and was the first woman to receive a Life time Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Davis was place second on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.

Agnes

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Just love Bette..an excellent actress..the finest..

Eve

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Love Bette Davis.. My favorite classic actress.

Darlene

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A beautiful actress... and The Great One and Only Bette Davis.

Armondo

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Bette Davis is a Gorgeous wonderful natural actress

Zorica

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Major talent, strength and those eyes that show her every emotion. Amazing all the way around❤️❤️❤️

Patricia

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My all time favorite actress.

Irene

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Happy birthday to Bette Davis,a great actress who born on April 5, 1908.

Mike

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She was always Bette Davis, her beauty came from her confidence and her fierce independence. She may have gotten older, but she really didn't give a damn what anyone thought of her.

Michael

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Loved "All About Eve" and also her performance in "Now Voyager." Love Bette Davis.

Jim

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She was unique and as far as I am concerned there will never be anyone as good again...

Gloria

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All About Eve is the best movie I´ve seen with Bette Davis. I just watched it 2 weeks ago.

Gerardo

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A wonderful lady. Great movies and I watch them over and over. So funny and a super actress.

Jones

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'On This Day' April 5th 1908, one of Hollywood's most prolific actresses, Bette Davis, was born. She appeared in over 100 films and radio shows, and many times played the same part on radio that she played in a movie - such as the Lux Radio Theater show, Dark Victory

Mark

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I love this woman so much. The greatest actress from the Classic Stars era. Try and watch on Television the series, FEUD. About Bette Davis and Joan Crawford's,FEUD!! Jessica Lange,as Joan,and Susan Sarandon,as Bette.. Both were phenomenal!! Also stars Stanley Tucci,as Jack Warner, and Alfred Molina as Robert Aldrich,Director of ,Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? TCOURS.

Sharon

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She was an amazing actress ! I loved everything she did. When she was in screen it was hard to watch the other actors. Her work was so intense you could not take your eyes off her.❤

Mike

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My favourite actress. Saw her at Croydon theatre in the 70s. It was a birthday surprise. She was fantastic.Spoke about her films and even did the cigarette scene from Now Voyager. The handed me a mic for me to ask her a question and I just froze.I thought of loads of questions afterwards.Best birthday present ever.

Marion

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Loved Bette Davis, such a hard headed, brilliant, strong woman

Desiree

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One of the finest and talented ladies in cinematic history

Mitra

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A GREAT actress!! Saw ALL her MOVIES! Love that era! They had talent and kept their clothes on!!!!!!!!

Ann

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Most talented actress! My favorite! Can watch her movies over and over! All About Eve, Jezebel, and many, many others!

Mary

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Super actress my fav, certainly could act too, no one like Bette.

Susan

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Lovely photo of Bette Davis, love all her old movies.

Soos

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One of the greatest actresses of all time.

Sebastian

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I like her, she very good actress

Linda

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A brilliant actress...smart and strong.

Arlene

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Great actress's and beautiful lady

Patricia

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When some directors asked Davis to reign in her (at times) over the top mannerisms, she responded by saying that her audiences wanted to see her "larger than life" - so - the more, the better. When she worked with a strong director, she could attain a flawless performance, such as with director William Wyler in a film like "Jezebel" (1938). - which brought her a second Oscar as Best Actress. They fought over how to portray her character in "The Letter" (40), but they had a mutual respect for each other nonetheless. She won her other Oscar for "Dangerous" (35) - but she felt it was a consolation prize for not being officially nominated the year before for "Of Human Bondage" (34). In all, she received eight other Oscar nominations and was considered one of the best actresses of the classic era. Her other nominations were for: "Dark Victory" (39), "The Letter" (40), "The Little Foxes" (41), "Now, Voyager" (42), "Mr. Skeffington" (44), "All About Eve" (50), "The Star" (52) and "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane" (62) opposite Joan Crawford. [They were both recently portrayed in the TV mini-series Feud: Bette & Joan.] Besides the films listed above, some others included: "The Cabin In The Cotton" (32), "The Petrified Forest" (36), "Marked Woman" (37), "The Old Maid" (39), "The Great Lie" (41), "The Man Who Came To Dinner" (42), "Old Acquaintance" (43), "Hollywood Canteen" (44), "Deception" (46), "Another Man's Poison" (51), "The Catered Affair" (56), "Pocketful Of Miracles" (61), "Dead Ringer" (64), "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (64), "Burnt Offerings" (76) and "The Whales Of August" (87) opposite Lillian Gish. Davis received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1977, one of many later life awards. Bette passed in 1989 at age 81.

Mike

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BETTE DAVIS (1908 ~ 1989) Davis is another one of the greats of classic cinema and was Oscar nominated ten times, winning twice - for "Dangerous" (35) and "Jezebel" (38). The other eight nominations were for: "Dark Victory" (39), "The Letter" (40), "The Little Foxes" (41), "Now, Voyager" (42), "Mr. Skeffington" (44), "All About Eve" (50), "The Star" (52) and "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane" (62). Other notable films included: "Of Human Bondage" (34), "The Petrified Forest" (36) and "The Great Lie" (41).

Jack

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Well... I do respect Ms. Davis, and... I see "Look at my cleavage" (the dress, its construction), _and_, "How DARE you look at my cleavage!!". Pretty intense mixed message.

Beth

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Bette the Beauty! So lovely!A great talented actress

Jerry

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Born in Lowell, Massachusetts 4/5/1908; died 10/6/1989 of breast cancer in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. Married and divorced to Harmon Nelson (1932-1939); Arthur Farnsworth (1940-1943 his death); William Grant Sherry (1945-1950); actor Gary Merril (1950-1961); single afterwards. Studied drama at the John Murray Anderson school in New York (1928). At age twenty-one went to Hollywood and made her acreen debut in Bad Sister (1931). Academy Awards for Dangerous (1935); Jezebel (1938). Last movie was Wicked Stepmother (1989). Guest star on many radio programs including 13 times on The Lux Radio Theater for CBS (1936- 1951); the first Academy Award in an adaption of Jezebel for CBS on 3/30/1946; Suspense in Good Night Mrs. Russell for CBS on 10/20/1949. Regular performer on The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players for CBS-Radio (1946-1947). Davis and Anne Seymour narrated the the CBS-Radio soap, Whispering Streets (1958-1959). Guest star on many television programs including What's My Line for CBS (1952); General Electric Theater for CBS (1957); Dupont Show With June Allyson for CBS (1959-1961); Perry Mason for CBS (1963). Laura Trent on the first episode of Hotel for ABC on 9/21/1983 (this would have been a recuring role, except for her illness). 1979 Emmy Award for Strangers: The Story of a Mother & Daughter.

Jack

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Best film actress ever and a Gorgeous woman.

Eric

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It always amazes me that BETTE DAVIS was not considered beautiful, by Hollywood standards, anyhow. You can make the argument that she may not have aged well, but I always thought she was a unique beauty.

Paul

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She was lovely there... but she aged very quickly... by the end of the was she was already matronely!

Chris

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This lady had it all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,best actor of all times, why, because she was a natural she could play any part in a movie , outstanding and a professional in all that she did

Dale

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Truly worth seeing in The Bride Came C.O.D. Where she is undoubtedly having fun with the screenplay and her character. Viewed as a screwball comedy this was a critical failure, when views as slapstick farce the comic elements are in my view much more successful.

Peter

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When she was very young...before the booze...smoking...std shots and depression ravaged her looks.....it all about choices Bet..

Dewitt

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Beautiful lady and a great actress

Charlotte

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Beautiful and elegant lady, A great actress did a lot of extraordinary work.

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Beautiful and elegant lady, A great actress did a lot of extraordinary work.

Donna

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Bette Davis in-her prime! She was very pretty during this stage of her life. Great Actress!

Awilda

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I love Bette Davis in every phase of her film and TV career, but somehow, I always feel she is the most fascinating in her early years as a (usually) platinum blonde Warner's starlet, full of boundless energy and quirky movements, showing off those beautiful big "Bette Davis eyes" and breaking the hearts of mere helpless mortals like Richard Barthelmess, George Brent, William Powell, Leslie Howard, Lyle Talbot, Pat O'Brien, Gene Raymond, and yes, even the hard-nosed Jimmy Cagney!. Wow!

Jerry

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My favorite actress and fantastic One of the best!

Cheryl

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Great movies to see.. ''Now Voyager'' ---Marked Woman'''''---best ''Jezzebelle'' Davis and Fonda G-Brent.. excellent!!..

Linda

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The greatest actress that ever lived!

Terry

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Oh ~~~she is so beautiful, looks like my Gram Mary Margaret Walton, nee Keegan from Liverpool, England in the Beatles neiboroughood, and neice Colleen. Its The Eyes that tell it all. !you cant not agree.

Louise

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Yay! The only true star from the Golden Age that I’ve seen up close and personally.

Ian

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One of my favorite actresses! A great talented actress

Avanthia

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One of the most perfect and gorgeous faces on-screens.

Marcos

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Perhaps My Favorite Of All Her Films And Characters...She A Sweet, Deceptive, Cunning, and not greedy, but aware of the benefits of wealth, restless and ready for her departurer to Chicago..she uses any and everyone..sick husband, daughter, and she has two brothers..one weak, one her match

Perry

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One of the greatest female actresses of all time and her era, she was so beautiful, lovely, sexy, gorgeous, pretty, elegant, pretty, elegant stunning woman back in the day, loved her in Jezebel, Dangerous, Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage, Elizabeth and Essex, Little Foxes, The Virgin Queen, Hush, Hush sweet Charlotte, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Mr. Skeffington, Now Voyager, Old Acquaintance, Dead Ringer, The Nanny, The Letter, R.I.P. to a fabulously talented n beautiful woman who passed away due to breast cancer at the age of 81.

Armand

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Bette Davis Davis (1908-1989) was a versatile, volatile American actress, whose raw, unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for fifty years. Upon her arrival in Hollywood, however, the studio executives determined that she had no “sex appeal,” and after a series of thankless roles in such films as Bad Sister (1931) and a handful of equally unrewarding loanouts to other studios.

Linda

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After a series of undemanding roles for Warner Brothers, she begged the studio to lend her to RKO Radio Pictures to play the vicious, relentlessly unsympathetic Mildred in Of Human Bondage (1934), a film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel. Davis’s bravura performance as Mildred won her critical acclaim and industry respect, but studio politics prevented her from receiving an Academy Award. She subsequently won what many considered a “consolation” Oscar for her portrayal of an alcoholic, self-destructive actress in Dangerous (1935).

Linda

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She went on to win a second Oscar, for Jezebel (1938), the first of three rewarding collaborations with director William Wyler. Her other notable vehicles from this period include Dark Victory (1939), Juarez (1939), and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939).

Linda

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Davis was nominated for an Academy Award five years in a row: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943. She shares the record for most consecutive nominations with Greer Garson.

Linda

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One of my favorites, A truly great actress.

Joseph

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The best actress of all time.stunning talented versatile

Sue

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A great actress, She inhabits the screen. Now, Voyager is one of my favorite films.

Lannie

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IMO she wasn’t really beautiful per se but she was very confident and elegant and carried herself like a Boston Brahmin. She was also a fantastic actress.

Sylvia

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She was a rare beauty, kind of a mysterious beauty

Cathy

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I Love

Sonia

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She could make herself be traditionally beautiful when the role required it. She was that good.

Don

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Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5th, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Early in life, Bette wanted to be a dancer because she thought they led glamorous lives. She gave up dancing to become an actor, which she thought was more challenging. Once she graduated from Cushing’s Academy, she enrolled in John Murray Anderson’s Dramatic School and was their star student.

Michael

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Her Broadway debut was in 1929 where she starred in the play “Broken Dishes”. Late in 1930, Universal brought her aboard (as a loan out for other studios), and her first film for them was in 1931, called Way Back Home, however, her films for Universal were unsuccessful. Warner Brothers Pictures signed her to a seven-year deal in 1932, and in 1932, the film The Man Who Played God made her a star.

Mike

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She had several critically acclaimed films with them and was praised for her willingness to play many different types of roles in a range of genres. Davis tried to get out of her contract with Warner Brothers Pictures in 1937, and even though she lost the major court case, her career took off after that loss. She was one of the most celebrated leading ladies until the late 1940s. She was married four times and had three children. She was credited in 124 roles, nominated for 11 Oscars and won twice.

Jack

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Bette Davis died of breast cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Haute-de-Seine, France, on October 6th, 1989, at the age of 81.

Jack

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*** BETTE DAVIS *** Davis (1908 ~ 1989) is another one of the greats of the 1930s, having won two Best Actress Oscars, for "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938). She fought for better roles (as she wasn't getting them early on in her career) and even took Warner Bros. to court in 1936. She didn't win the court case, but did receive much better film roles. She took over to be queen of the Warner Bros. lot during the second half of the thirties after Kay Francis was their # 1 female star during the first half.

Mike

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Bette began in films in 1931, but the major turning point came in 1934 with her performance in "Of Human Bondage" opposite Leslie Howard. Her other best films during this decade included: "The Petrified Forest" (36), "Marked Woman" (37), "The Old Maid" (39), "The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex" (39) and her own favorite - "Dark Victory" (39 - Oscar nomination).

Mike

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Other films worth mentioning: "The Man Who Played God" (32), "The Cabin In The Cotton" (32), "20,000 Years In Sing Sing" (33), "Ex-Lady" (33), "Bordertown" (35), "The Sisters" (38) and "Juarez" (39).

Mike

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A terrific actress and iconic star. She was a brave and innovative acor, but often resorted to using rather disconcerting mannerisms more and more later on. But there is no doubt she was great. I think that she gave some of the most pivotal performances of the 30‘s and after. One of the greats in cinema history.

Ralph

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Bette was yhe very best of the best.

Denise

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She get's my vote as the best ever.

Perry

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Betty Davis, was one of the greatest actor I have ever seen.

Beverly

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