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The Davis Theater, originally known as the Pershing Theater, is a first run movie theater located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago.Built in 1918, the theater has operated in different capacities in its history, showing silent films, German-language films, and various forms of stage performance.
Davis received a career revival in All About Eve for 20th Century-Fox. She played an aging Broadway star, Margo Channing, who is manipulated by an obsessed fan. The film was one of the biggest hits of 1950, and she was again nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to Judy Holliday .
Davis at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con. Viola Davis is an American actress and producer who has appeared in film, television, and on stage. [1] [2] [3] She received her equity card with her stage debut in 1988 with August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle play Joe Turner's Come and Gone production of Trinity Repertory Company. [4]
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (/ ˈ b ɛ t i /; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and ...
Time Out London critic Tom Milne writes: "[Davis] and [director Edmund] Goulding almost transform the soap into style; a Rolls-Royce of the weepie world." [11] [12] On Turner Classic Movies, Margarita Landazuri said: "Dark Victory was a three-hanky hit. Filmgoers and critics alike knew their emotions were being manipulated, but so expertly and ...
Davis Guggenheim’s “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” will open the eighth edition of Chicago’s Doc10 documentary film festival on May 4. About Fox’s life, career and work as a public ...
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper.The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.
In 2020, Davis was listed by Forbes as the tenth highest-paid TV actress in the world, all thanks to seven-figure salaries from her work on Netflix’s How to Get Away with Murder and Ma Rainey ...