Girl Who Walked Home Alone

Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Just this short list of Bette Davis'' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history.

Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis'' life, this biography draws heavily on the act...