Edgy, wayward, domineering, and endlessly watchable, Bette Davis daringly supplied the equivalent qualities for the genre films that marked her career - and made them her own. Her pictures all ran on her energy and stand the test of time because of the tensile strength, that inimitable electroplating of heedlessness and vulnerability, her soulís chemistry provided them. The creation of this screen personality was no easy matter, and Davisí battle to develop and establish it is the topic of this brief book by Time magazineís legendary film critic Richard Schickel.
