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Stardust the Bette Davis story

A documentary about the film career of Bette Davis, one of the most gifted and versatile actresses to emerge from the Hollywood studio system. Even though in real life her off-screen persona may have presented a modern female who blazed trails in a man's world, Ruth Elizabeth Davis possessed a temperament driven by compulsions instilled in childhood that left her in the end, by her own admission, one lonely, distinctly un-modern woman. The documentary takes us on a psychological treasure hunt for the soul of a person so buried in contradiction and her self-styled legend that fact and fiction became indistinguishable. Features interviews with many, including Bette's son, Michael Merrill, who speaks for the first time about his parents' violent marriage and his sister's blistering memoir, My Mother's Keeper, and reveals shocking details surrounding the mysterious death of Bette's second husband.

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