Bette Davis Hollywood Icon on Picture Perfect

Bette Davis Hollywood Icon on Picture Perfect

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Fasten your seat belts – it’s going to be a bumpy night!

This week on “Picture Perfect,” for Academy Awards weekend, the focus is on Bette Davis.

A two-time Academy Award-winner, Davis was the first actor to receive ten nominations, five of them in consecutive years. She remains one of the most recognizable figures from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Enjoy an assortment of classic scores composed for her indelible films, including “Now, Voyager” (Max Steiner), “Mr. Skeffington” (Franz Waxman), “All About Eve” (Alfred Newman), and “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).

Davis’ wins came early – she received statuettes for “Dangerous” (1935) and “Jezebel” (1938) – but she turned in solid performances for pretty much her entire career. There is little about her style which doesn’t scream “ACTING!” So it seems only an appropriate choice for this Academy Awards weekend.

It’s a grand throwback to an era when the big screen was filled by larger-than-life personalities. You can always bet on Bette, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.


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