Saturday, June 26, 2021

Bette's Hats and Reviews: Waterloo Bridge (1931)

Mae Clarke & Bette Davis

Waterloo Bridge (1931) was Bette's third film. In her autobiography, The Lonely Life, Bette wrote, "Universal, now irrevocably convinced that they had been duped, made the best of a bad bargain and cast me in Robert Sherwood's Waterloo Bridge in which Mae Clarke played Myra opposite Douglas Montgomery's Roy. I was his gentle sister, Janet, who is kind to the hapless heroine. And that was that!" (Davis, 117).

She wore one hat. You can just make out a bow on the band on the right side of the hat.

Bette's performance was not mentioned in the reviews. The film was on YouTube but has been removed twice. 


Sources:
Davis, Bette. The Lonely Life: An Autobiography. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. 
Ringgold, Gene. Bette Davis: Her Films and Career. Citadel Press, 1966.

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