Bette Davis on Tour

22 January 2008

They called her the First Lady of Film – and Bette Davis saw no reason to disagree. “I always had the will to win,” she once proclaimed. Now the career of one of Hollywood’s most colourful grandes dames is being celebrated by film channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies), the BFI and distributors Park Circus, with nationwide screenings of eleven of her most memorable dramas to coincide with the centenary of her birth on 5th April, 2008.

The eleven titles include new 35mm prints of Jezebel, The Letter and The Little Foxes, together with a fully restored digital print of All About Eve, which has been back in selected cinemas since the end of November 2007. The tour will be launched at the Glasgow Film Festival in February, which includes a special screening of The Letter, introduced by film critic and broadcaster Barry Norman following with a Q&A. Thereafter, the tour continues through to July, with over fifty cinemas nationwide taking part.

TCM pays its own tribute to this tempestuous screen icon, with an on air season airing on the channel in April 2008.

Bette Davis on Tour represents a unique opportunity to admire an actress whose contribution to motion picture history lives on.

More information at: www.tcmonline.co.uk/bettedavis

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