Publisher's Synopsis
Screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The bitter rivalry between them is long and legendary. But their legacies were more than just the "most notorious cat fight in Hollywood history." There legacies were their films. Davis made over 80, Crawford over 90 (getting her start in silent films). Bette Davis and Joan Crawford: Movie Posters From Their Top 25 Films contains full-sized vintage one sheet posters, and some poster art, on 8 x 10 pages. The posters are presented in descending order, based on each film's IMDb (Internet Movie Database) critical rating, in chapters for each star. Davis' films included (in alphabetical order) are All About Eve (1950), All This and Heaven, Too (1940), Connecting Rooms (1970), Dark Victory (1939), Dead Ringer (1964), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965), In This Our Life (1942), It's Love I'm After (1937), Jezebel (1938), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Now Voyager (1942), Old Acquaintance (1943), Payment on Demand (1951), Petrified Forest (1936), Seed (1931), The Catered Affair (1956), The Corn is Green (1945), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), The Old Maid (1939), The Scopone Game (1972), The Whales of August (1987), Watch on the Rhine (1943) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962). Crawford's films included (also in alphabetical order) are A Woman's Face (1941), Autumn Leaves (1956), Daisy Kenyon (1947), Dancing Lady (1933), Four Walls (1928), Grand Hotel (1932), Harriet Craig (1950), Humoresque (1946), Johnny Guitar (1954), Mildred Pierce (1945), Our Dancing Daughters (1932), Possessed (1931), Possessed (1947), Rain (1932), Spring Fever (1927), Straight-Jacket (1964), Strange Cargo (1940), Sudden Fear (1952), The Damned Don't Cry (1950)), The Unknown (1927), The Women (1939), Twelve Miles Out (1927), West Point (1927) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962). Printed in full color on white paper, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford: Movie Posters From Their Top 25 Films is a must-have for fans of two of the greatest movie queens of all time. (Please Note: The movie poster for the Bette Davis' film, Connecting Rooms (1970), is printed considerably smaller than the other posters in this book, due to the low quality of the available image.)
