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How old was Bette in this movie?


Hey everyone i was wondering how old Bette was in this movie? she looks about 25-ish? She looks absolutely GORGEOUS in this movie!!!!

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she was 29/30

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thatS hard to beliVe!! she looks very young in "Jezebel" hehe

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You should watch "Dangerous" or "Of Human Bondage", both made while Bettie was in her 20s.

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

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Ive seen "Of human bondage" i liked it.. i still need to watch "Dangerous" though

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Bette won her first Oscar for Dangerous. It's been widely assumed -- since 1936 -- that the Oscar was a "catch-up" when she was not even nominated for Of Human Bondage.

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

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What is 29/30 so old? It's still less than 5 years older than the age you speculated. She looked her age.

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I have never seen the appeal in her. She was not beautiful.

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"I have never seen the appeal in her. She was not beautiful."

Well, "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were."

Davis may not have been beautiful in the traditional sense, but she could sure as hell act beautiful when the occasion called for it - however many of the ones who were beautiful couldn't act, period. And her films are better-remembered and have had more enduring appeal than those of the beauty queens.

"Stone-cold sober I find myself absolutely fascinating!"---Katharine Hepburn

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I Love Bette as Jezebel! Bette looks in her mid-20s in the movie & I think she looked her most Beautiful in this movie!

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Bette Davis was a two bagger.

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One way or another she had this aura that people comes to see her pictures despite her not so pretty face. But she's great in her own way!

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I thought she looked her best in Now Voyager. I also loved her character in that film as well.

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Yah, she should have just never appeared in front of a camera, because unless you are beautiful, no one really cares about you. Seriously dude...are you 13 ?

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