Following her intimate portraits of Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder, Charlotte Chandler draws on her extensive interviews with Bette Davis to reveal new details about the public and private worlds of the legendary actress in her own words.
'Of Human Bondage', 'Jezebel', 'All About Eve', 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' Just this short list of Bette Davis' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history.
Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis' life, this biography is mostly in the actresses own words. Looking back over the decades, from her teenage decision to become an actress tot he pain and outrage over her daughter's bitter portrayal of her, Davis speaks with extraordinary candour. She explains how her father's abandonment of her as a child reverberated through her four marriages, and discusses the persistent Hollywood legend that she was difficult to work with. Immersing readers in the drama and glamour of movie-making's golden age, 'The Girl Who Walked Home Alone' is a startling portrait of an enduring icon.
