Bette Davis, Jezebel

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Pauline Kael

"Bette Davis is impulsive, complex Julie, the Southern belle who destroys her chances for happiness by perversely flouting conventions.... It's hard to know which is Davis's "big scene" in the movie--the painful, flamboyant error of her appearance in red, or the breathtaking moment of her apology in white. She took the Academy Award of 1938 for this role, and rarely has it been awarded so justly...."