"The Star" gives Bette Davis a chance to tear up the screen as a one-time Hollywood legend who's forced to watch her youth and career slowly fade away.
The film is pure melodrama and soap opera, but this is Bette Davis we're talking about here, and the material was never found that she couldn't sell if she had half a mind to. One might be tempted to suspect that Davis's performance was semi-autobiographical, but based on what I've read, it sounds like this film is much more reminiscent of Joan Crawford's experiences in Hollywood than Davis's.
Sterling Hayden co-stars as the man who makes a woman of Davis, and an adolescent Natalie Wood plays her daughter.
The Oscar Davis's character carries around and gets in a car accident with was real and one of the two Davis won earlier in her career.
Grade: B-
The film is pure melodrama and soap opera, but this is Bette Davis we're talking about here, and the material was never found that she couldn't sell if she had half a mind to. One might be tempted to suspect that Davis's performance was semi-autobiographical, but based on what I've read, it sounds like this film is much more reminiscent of Joan Crawford's experiences in Hollywood than Davis's.
Sterling Hayden co-stars as the man who makes a woman of Davis, and an adolescent Natalie Wood plays her daughter.
The Oscar Davis's character carries around and gets in a car accident with was real and one of the two Davis won earlier in her career.
Grade: B-