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| • | "Bette Davis must have a cigarette...For without a smoke, she cannot entirely be Bette Davis...chain-smokes Vantage filters and, with stubborn ferocity, grinds her butts into the ashtray. Once snuffed by Miss Davis, those crooked stubs would not dare to continue smoldering... She lights into the current nationwide anti-smoking movement with a mixture of glee and withering disdain, almost as if defending her legend against unruly hordes of nosy tobacco-haters...'I Resent It More Than I Can Tell You!' she says at a rapid clip, delivering every word distinctly and discretely, as though each one were capitalized. 'I Do Not Wish To Be Told What To Do!...Who has the right to say 'You can't smoke'' Makes me smoke MORE! Ha-HA-ha. No. I don't like it.' ...goddess from a shadowy world of lies, betrayal, ambition, tragedy. And cigarette smoke. As Miss Davis inhales, a silver charm bracelet jangles around her wrist...smoldering cigarette in hand...Bette Davis defiantly scrunches and twists another filter tip into the ashtray. She smiles as she lights up another cigarette and shoots a plume of smoke into the air, as if into the face of some wicked man, cooly blowing him away", where?, '88
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| • | "she sat, placing a massive airport ashtray on her lap. With a characteristic flourish, she pulled out a cigarette and placed it surely between her lips", "Bette Davis: An Intimate Portrait" by Roy Mosely, '91, p. 8 |
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| • | "Bette was puffing her cigarette like...well, just like Bette Davis.", "All About All About Eve" by Sam Staggs, '00, p. 9 |
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| • | "both Crawford and Davis waited in separate backstage dressing rooms, smoking furiously", "Movie Awards: The Ultimate, Unofficial Guide to the Oscars, Golden Globes, Critics, Guild and Indie Honors" by Thomas O'Neil, '03, p. 245 |
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| • | "She once employed a man just to light her cigarettes", The Independent (UK), Mar. 26, '05 |
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| • | "grand dames like Bette Davis knew how to smoke. She could suck a cigarette down to the filter with one dramatic draw. With Bette it was smoking with violence", Belfast Telegraph (UK), Jun. 27, '05 |
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| • | "smoked her way through chains of cigarettes", Washington Post, Mar. 31, '06
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| • | "instantly recognisable, taking long puffs on her cigarette and exhaling slowly, a veritable dragon-queen", Mail on Sunday (UK), Jul. 2, '06 |
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| • | "That Oscar night, both actresses were side by side, chain-smoking in the wings", Scottish TV (UK), Sep. 12, '06 |
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| • | "Between scenes, the chain-smoking actress sat in a chair and puffed away at cigarettes. 'Bette Davis used to have someone put her cigarettes out for her...She would wave her left arm and somebody would come over'", Akron Beacon Journal, Oct. 30, '06 |
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| • | "a chain smoker", Albuquerque Tribune, Dec. 8, '06
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| • | "one of Hollywood's heroic smokers", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 21, '08
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| • | "belonged to the golden age of the studio system, the era of black-and-white movies, the time when smoking went with everything. She made an art of lighting up; cigarettes were to her what swords were to Errol Flynn", The Observer (UK), Mar. 23, '08
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| • | "Considering that [Joan Collins] smoked a couple of packets of cigarettes every day of her adult life, it was remarkable that she survived to the relatively ripe old age of 81... The regally imposing effect of Bette's costume was somewhat marred by her stalking up and down the set chainsmoking. Of course most people smoked then, including myself... sat in an armchair smoking heavily... The great diva arose with great dignity and a smouldering cigarette and yanked at the dress", The Times (UK), Mar. 27, '08
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| • | smoked during interview, "Bette Davis: Benevolent Volcano", when? |
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| • | "was a heavy drinker and a five-pack-a-day chain smoker", website bio, when?
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