I'd Love to Kiss You: Conversations with Bette Davis [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Stine, Whitney

Edité par Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990

Fine unread condition black boards, black cloth spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction; Publisher's Postscript; Awards Presented to Bette Davis; Filmography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. " Well, Bette said brightly, "When I'm gone, tell the truth in your book." " I will. I've taken notes for years." Whitney Stine became a Bette Davis fan at the age of eight, but didn't meet the star until 1972, when she agreed to write a running commentary for his outrageous bestseller on her film career, Mother Goddam. During a friendship that flourished for almost twenty years, he recorded her uninhibited observations about her co-stars, her lovers, her four husbands and her career. "I'd Love to Kiss You." is pure Better Davis, speaking in her own unique voice - and with utter candor. When Bette Davis died recently at 81, she left a legacy of 101 feature films and TV movies - and a reputation as one of the greatest film actresses of all time. From her Oscar-winning performances in Dangerous and Jezebel to Dark Victory, Now Voyager and All About Eve, she used her extraordinary talents to create a galaxy of women: queens, whores, outcasts, rebels, bitches, grand dames, old maids, and more. Illustrated with exclusive photograhs, many from the author's collection, I'd Love to Kiss You is the ultimate Bette Davis book, as fascinating and vivid as a tete-a-tete with Miss D. herself. Early in her career, Bette fell in love with Spencer Tracy and Franchot Tone. In between husbands, she had affairs with songwriter Johnny Mercer, Howard Hughes, William Wyler ("the love of my life"), and George Brent ("He used to stain my pillowcases with hair dye!") She wondered how Josef von Sternberg would have photographed her ("What would have happened to Dietrich without him? He built the SETS, and put her into them like a rag DOLL"). Laurence Olivier was a favorite fantasy ("the most handsome thing on earth, and it was the image of his sexiness I dreamed about") and Charles Boyer, not quite ("He was short, bald, had a potbelly"). Leslie Howard was one star who did not capture Bette's fancy ("He was so promiscuous. I venture to say that, in his mousy way, he had more one-night stands than Errol Flynn"). But Bette always preferred to co-star with men, and was loathe to praise other female stars and competitors ("Hepburn can be fey. I can't. I don't like ruffles and scarves and all that sort of crap. Helen Hayes is ALL RIGHT. But, I've never cared for her very much, you know"). I'd Love To Kiss You." is an extraordinary accomplishment, alive with the tempestuous, earthy personality of Bette Davis - a passionate, completely revealing account, right from the heart, of her unforgettable life and career." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. N° de réf. du vendeur 009062

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : I'd Love to Kiss You: Conversations with ...
Éditeur : Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York
Date d'édition : 1990
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Gatti, David (jacket design); Globe Photos (jacket photograph)
Etat : Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Fine
Edition : 1st Edition