Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but this is one of my all time favorite Bette Davis films from her Warner Bros glory years. Southern decadence at its finest! Bette steals her sisters' husband then drives him to suicide, dances just out of reach of her old rich lecherous Uncle who always brings her gifts - "It's in my pocket, you have to reach for it!" Her rich and repulsive uncle got rich by tricking her father into overextending himself in the depression, then taking the whole business over, all but cutting him out. All this and more in the 1st 20 minutes! Bette is the spoiled southern tart who doesn't give a fig about anybody but herself; The kind of fatale the Bette could do with perfection. She plays her confrontation scenes at 110% intensity; I feel it's PERFECT for her character, not overacted! She is simply rotten to the core! Go, Bette, Go! Bette and her sister, played here by Olivia De Havilland, have terrific chemistry. And as a special treat, we get Billie Burke (Glinda the good witch) playing their neurotic, bed-ridden, chemically addicted mother. See it, See it, and for God's sake, SEE IT!
Review of In This Our Life
