The girl who walked home alone - Charlotte Chandler

Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life
resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also spoke with directors
actors
and others who knew and worked with Davis
and includes brief synopses of all of her theatrical films.Here are some more examples of Bette's wit to be found within these pages: I'm the one who didn't get the man
which is the more interesting character on the screen
but in real life sometimes I wish I could just have been the girl who got the man
and kept him. I got four husbands and several lovers
but I didn't keep any of them. I was invited to the White House
but no man stayed to share my white cottage.
My favorite actor with whom I never played
professionally or personally
was Laurence Olivier. I admired everything about him. He was a great actor
and he was my dream man. Literally and figuratively. Larry was my fantasy lover
the perfect man
or at least I thought he would be. He was not only beautiful
but intelligent.