William Wyler directing BETTE DAVIS in this Lillian Hellman Broadway hit that starred the infamous Tallulah Bankhead was a smash hit way back in the day and added another Oscar Nomination to Bette's résumé. By the way," The Little Foxes" comes from a verse in the Bible. In any case, we are dealing with a money hungry family, Regina's side of the family while her gentle husband, Horace, daughter (and Aunt Birdie) seem to be cut from a different cloth. It's impossible to say much on the film or the entire ruthless plot will be given away. ONE THING I WILL NOT LEAVE OUT AS IT WON'T DIVULGE PLOT is a terrifying scene in which Director Wyler has the Bette Davis face in close-up. Her fiendish look becomes more distorted all as she seems to be holding her breath and not moving a single facial muscle. It's an extraordinary piece of acting using facial expressions alone proving why Davis was the most important female star of that star-studded Hollywood era. No one could match her in intensity and no one dared take the risks Bette did on screen for the sake of her art, playing horrendous, unsympathetic women to perfection, from 1934 on when she created a scandal with her totally physical, syphilitic MILDRED in the astonishing OF HUMAN BONDAGE. It was a frightful, graphic performance before the Hayes Office began censoring much of what was being filmed in Hollywood. They all played it safe and that included her main rival, Katherine Hepburn. Yet Miss Davis played great, likable women as well. In many of these roles her art is seen as even greater, always harder to play a more down to earth woman than some women on the verge of God knows what! That's why BETTE'S name will forever live as one of the greatest of Hollywood icons.
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