Bette Davis News

Meryl Streep with Jim Broadbent in "The Iron Lady," for which she has a lead-actress Oscar nomination this year.

Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side": Can't say that I MIND that she won, though. Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday." Nothing wrong here, except that she beat Bette Davis in "All About Eve." Holly Hunter: They waited until Holly Hunter figured out a way to be dull and then awarded her the Oscar.

The restored, art deco gem of a theater was built in 1938. Local resident, Bette Davis, insisted that her new movie, "Jezebel" be shown at its opening.

Looking for some counter-programming to Super Bowl weekend? Check out these femme-driven flicks that score their share of emotional touchdowns: "THE CATERED AFFAIR" : Bette Davis stars as a penny-pinching Bronx housewife who, over the objections of her cab-driver hubby , wants to give her daughter the lavish wedding she herself never had.

As the film awards approach, our fatal attraction to Brad Pitt et al grows, just as interest in their films diminishes 'My own Oscar grief this year is all about George Clooney and Brad Pitt', who are both nominated for best actor.

AUDIENCES enraptured by The Artist, that love letter to Old Hollywood, will already be familiar with the type of Brylcreemed men and blushing women who met on the morning of 16 May, 1929, at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles to raise a champagne glass to the year's finest actors, writers and directors and so launch the Academy Awards.