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Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud

A joint biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which follows their rivalry throughout their careers. They worked together once, in the film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, but their real-life dislike of one another transcended even the antagonism depicted in the film.

Subject
biographymemoirhistory
Themes
movies
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
long · 512 pages

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