Bette Davis: Smoking Queen
Bette Davis needs no introduction to fans of smoking actresses who are also familiar with older movies. Ms. Davis probably did more smoking onscreen than any other actress, her Oscar winning career spanned nearly 50 years. In fact, the cigarette kind of became Bette Davis' trademark, as was remarked on once by rival and fellow legendary actress and smoking queen, Joan Crawford.
In fact, the hit song of the early 80's, Bette Davis Eyes, featured a music video complete with an actress smoking in sihouette in the background in homage to Bette.
Bette Davis smoked in nearly all of her movies, with the exception of those that were period pieces. A complete listing, as always, can be found at Smoking Celebrities .
Fans of real oldies can catch Bette smoking in a 1930's movie called Three on a Match , a story built upon the scene of three female friends lighting their cigarettes on one match, which is repeatedly several times in the film. In terms of quantity, it might be hard to beat All About Eve in which Bette Davis plays an aging stage actress trying to ward off an agressive young understudy. Its a classic movie, and Bette smokes, if my memory is correct, in every scene she is in. Its also a famous movie because it featured the famous initial cameo of Marilyn Monroe, who is on screen for maybe thirty seconds. [No, Marilyn does not smoke in this one]
Another personal favorite shows an older Bette, still smoking voraciously, in the movie Dead Ringer, where she plays a dual role as identical twins: one nice/one greedy, one rich/one poor and, you guessed it, one a non-smoker and the other a chain smoker, which plays into the really neat twist on the end when one has to answer for the murder the other committed.
More than any other classic smoking queen, there is an abundance of pictures and videos available on VHS and DVD of Bette Davis, the ultimate cigarette woman.
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