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Rating: - Absolute Melodrama
Bette Davis stars in another melodrama dripping with mixed up love affairs, scandal, and death. She plays a gangster's moll who tries to live a normal life as a secretary after her husband's death. During this time, she meets a wealthy man who wants to marry her (Henry Fonda). They do wed against his father's wishes, a powerful man who anulls the marriage and leaves Davis with a child. Her boss (Ian Hunter) is sympathetic and does all he can to take care of her, all the time falling in love with her despite being married himself. Their association becomes another scandal in Davis' already complicated life. On top of that, her ex-husband Fonda comes back into the equation, married to another woman.
This is certainly a chick flick by any standards and reads like a high class soap opera. However, despite how silly it might seem, it is a guilty pleasure to watch. All of the performances are wonderful. Of course Davis has a wide acting range and does not overdo her performance. Fonda is handsome and boyish but appropriately emotional.
Rating: - Davis on an emotional rollercoaster
Who but Bette Davis could handle a role requiring such a versatility of emotions as this so well? She begins the movie the young widow of a Chicago gangster. Hoping to better her life she becomes a secretary to Ian Hunter. When Henry Fonda enters the picture she elopes with him, only his father has the marriage annulled immediately. Davis goes along with it (Fonda has no backbone), only, of course, she's pregnant now and has a son. Hunter has always had a crush on her and she begs him not to tell Fonda about the boy. Fonda marries another, Hunter dies after leaving Davis a bundle of money (and his declaration of love), and she goes off to Europe and seclusion. After Fonda's wife dies, he visits Davis and their love is rekindled. The soap-opera effects are really poured on - some, such as Fonda's wife (Anita Louise) being crippled in a car accident on their honeymoon and Davis asking them to adopt her boy, are almost over-the-top in emotional force and seem to be there for no other reason. But Davis is a trooper and shoulders her tragedies valiantly. The pleasure here all comes from watching Davis go through her paces. Well done!
Rating: - SAY HELLO TO ST. BETTE
I recently saw this movie on TCM. Let me tell you, If you are a fan of the great Bette Davis as I am this is one worth owning or at least seeing. So,you may be asking why I only gave it three stars? Here is why,as far as the story line and acting go, the movie is not one of Bette's greatest. The real jem of this movie is the character that Bette plays. I could not get over this "kinder and more gentle" Bette. Get a load of this: After losing the man that she loves,(a very young and handsome) Henry Fonda to another woman she not only does not fight to get him back in classic Bette Davis style, she hands over her young son(a child from her short lived marriage to Fonda) so that he and his new wife can raise him!!! Now, if that does not have you stunded this will. In a sceen in the movie, Bette is asked if she would like a cigarette and I KID YOU NOT, she turns it DOWN!!!
You just have to see this movie to believe it!
It really is a Hoot!
Rating: - Bette Davis and Henry Fonda are a delight in That Certain Woman
Bette Davis portrays Mary, a gangster's widow who tries to put her past behind her and start anew. When she falls in love with Jack (Henry Fonda), they marry and everything seems perfect...until his wealthy, socially prominent father finds out and annuls the marriage. Their one night together results in the birth of a son, but, not knowing of this, Jack remarries and builds a new life. Mary's boss, in the meantime, has fallen in love with her, but she rejects his offer to take care of her, believing Jack will one day return. When Jack's new wife is found to be unable to bear children and he returns years later and meets his son, he must chose between his devotion to his new wife and his desire for Mary and their son.
Ian Hunter, Anita Louise and Donald Crisp round out the exceptional cast in thsi romantic melodrama.
Rating: - Davis at the top of her form
I don't wish to write a review for this film, but I can't let the poor ratings this film has received remain unchallenged. For whatever else one might think about this film, the fact is that Bette Davis is at the top of her form in this film, and that's saying a lot. The year after "That Certain Woman" Davis appeared in "Jezebel," and the year after that in "Dark Victory," two of her best-known performances. She played in a raft of films in the late 30s and early 40s, and many of these films are overshadowed today by her "greatest" films. But make no mistake about it: each of her performances in these years is among the finest in the history of cinematography. Very few actresses can express the full spectrum of human emotion, from the ecstatic heights of being in love to the bathos of lost love (and everything inbetween), that Davis brings to this film. And, as often as not, she does it without uttering a single word. Watch her face register emotion, watch those emotions take flight and swirl and soar before your very eyes. You are watching one of the greatest actresses of the 20th century (indeed, of any century), in a performance that is unforgettable. Whether one loves this film or not (I, for one, do love it!), Davis' performance is exhilarating, masterful, and unrivalled. Be thankful that through modern technology we can experience the wonder and the magic, and yes the genius, of this bravura performance, an extraordinary portrayal filmed on the cinematic stage before most of us were even born.
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