Mother Goddam: The Story of the Career of Bette Davis [Paperback]

Whitney Stine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1975

With the ruefulness implicit in her title, but also with honesty and a bitchy bonhomie that seldom adorn such Sunset sagas, Bette Davis pictures herself as Mother Goddam, a tamable shrew who never found her Petruchio. Her four marriages suffered inevitably from income-patibility. In 1946, Bette Davis earned more ($328,000) than any other woman in the U.S.; one ex-husband, clearing out with the pretty nursemaid, even sued for alimony. Says she: "The only future marriage I would even remotely consider would be with Paul Getty." But she admits that her own rapturous intensity simply "exhausted" most of her mates. "Many men." she protests, "find their fathers in women. I am the least likely father symbol extant."

Product Details

• Paperback: 423 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425036286
• ISBN-13: 978-0425036280
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,986,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars astonishing, September 28, 1999

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This review is from: Mother Goddam: The Story of the Career of Bette Davis (Paperback)

I'd like more but you covered it all so WELL!!!You should put this back in print it would sell sell sell AGAIN!!! Can you help me? One thing I'm DYING to know is the name of the movie Betty Davis played in where she plays an identical twin, and her sister drowns in the lake while they are out boating together alone, and the evil twin takes the idenity of the nice twin. Thanks. Also I'll be reading MORE of your other books and Ilook forward to it.Thank You.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bette Davis Book, March 8, 2007

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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars response to previous poster, January 19, 2002

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This review is from: Mother Goddam (Paperback)

The name of the movie is "A Stolen Life." It costars Glenn Ford & was the only movie Bette ever produced when Warner Bros. allowed her to set up her own production company, BD Inc.