Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner-- and Stayed-- and Stayed-- and Stayed-- And--In 1985, Bette Davis came to dinner at a star-struck fan's home. Four weeks later--due to a hotel strike--she was still there. Fuller offers a warm, candidly funny account of trying to please the irascible queen of Hollywood in so adverse a condition as ordinary life. |
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