Sunday 22 May 2011

Bette and Joan

My model update is going to be slightly late this week, sorry folks. No I wasn’t caught up in last night’s Rapture, instead this afternoon I was at the theatre.


This afternoon I was at the Arts Theatre,  in Great Newport Street (London) to see a new play by Anton  Burge  “Bette and Joan” staring Anita Dobson as Joan Crawford and Greta Scacchi as Bette Davis. The play is set in the dressing rooms of the two stars during filming of their 1962 surprise success ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane’.


Both actresses give brilliant performances in this two hander, giving the audience a wonderful time, a great laugh, and an afternoon of great entertainment. This is well worth seeing.

And I’ll get back to blogging about the models very soon, promise.

5 comments:

  1. Is it true they hated each other in real life.

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  2. The story as given in the program is "Of the two Crawford was the more willing to stretch out the hand of friendship over the years, but Davis, sensing a personality that she believed was not "simpatico" with her own, refused any attempts to get the two women cast together..."

    They had so much in common both personally and professionally but as personalities they were poles apart. It seems more like a clash of personality than hate, but there was certainly no love lost between them. Anita and Greta played them brilliantly with perfect comic timing on each catty delivery, and responses.

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  3. @Zombie Ad - I guess we all did. Maybe it was just a practice run.

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