Now, Voyager (1942) is my favorite although I think that All About Eve (1950) has one of the best scripts in film history.

Don't worry, your not derailing her, but thanks anyway. I guess I'm still having trouble with posting pictures, even when I do what should work. Technology and I just don't click. Thank you so much for helping me! We have a lot in common (including that we are super fans of a classic female actress that we love!)!

Don't worry, I'm going to keep trying to get pictures up the right way!

Your awesome!

BD19

Yes - King Kong and Mighty Joe Young! Me, too! And the "insect" pictures - Them!, etc.

Bette, I apologize: sometime tonight or this weekend I'll post some BD pictures here to make up for the fact that I'm derailing this thread... Bette Davis should be honored here!

What a great story, Swithin! And growing up on Long Island, I am very acquainted with Channel 9 and the Million Dollar Movie! I watched a lot of Godzilla movies on that channel. I also saw a lot of Abbott and Costello on Channel 11 on Sunday afternoons when I did my last-minute homework.

The only thing I remember about my grandmother's love of movies is that she loved Jimmy Durante because he was, she said, "the underdog". My grandmother was from England (as was all of my mother's side of the family).

Eugenia and Bette, my mother was a great influence on giving me a love for classic movies. When I was a small boy, she watched Million Dollar Movie alot -- on Channel 9 in NYC. Each week a different movie was shown -- over and over. I remember watching Follow the Fleet and The Spiral Staircase and many other films at a really early age. And my mother talked alot about movies she saw in the theaters when she was a girl. I particularly remember her love for Now Voyager and Night Nurse. She now has the pleasure of watching her favorites on TCM.

My grandmother died at the age of 100 in 1990. She was born in Hoboken, NJ and loved the movies. I think Kay Francis was more popular than we realize, in the early days. Mae West was another of her favorites. My grandmother took me to the movies alot -- everything from Oklahoma! to Village of the Damned to my favorite epic -- The Egyptian. I must have been five, but that made a great impression on me. Grandma also took me to films like Kiss Me Deadly, a strange film for a five-year-old, but I'm glad they weren't so fussy in those days! One of my grandmother's favorite films was Rear Window. She talked about it alot -- and as you may recall it disappeared from circulation for many years, so she didn't have the chance to see it in later years, the way we now can. Although she lived to be 100, I'm sorry she didn't live into the video/DVD age, because then she could have seen Rear Window as often as she wanted. I remember that she took me to see Horrors of the Black Museum. Years later, I met one of the actors from that film, in London, and got to know him. A lovely many named Graham Curnow.

My parents were divorced. My father took me to films more suitable for boys: It Conquered the World; The She-Creature; The Time Machine, which helped develop my obsession with horror and science fiction films. I'm grateful that my parents and my grandmother gave me a love for movies.

Sometimes people dislike an actor because of the roles they play. If one mostly just saw Davis roles like The Little Foxes or Mr Skeffington than I can see a reason for a dislike (for those that cannot separate the actor from their roles).

I remember Bette from the Johnny Carson show and here she could be somewhat brash. That also turns people off.

Me; I love Bette.

That's cool - do you talk about movies with them, and do they mention watching them on the "silver screen" back when they were current? I remember my mother telling me that Gene Tierney was the love of my father's life. Interesting in that my mother was dark-haired with blue eyes.

(Not wanting to derail Bette's thread on Bette - it will come back to her, I'm sure!)