Arena Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (Season 9, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary

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Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (Season 9, Episode 2)

TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and mostly before the camera.

Producer

Geoffrey Baines (producer)

Cinematographers

Philip Bonham-Carter | Phil Gries | Martin Patmore

Editor

Dave King

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Edit Released

Updated Nov 2, 1983

Release date

Nov 2, 1983 (United Kingdom)

Awards

Series awards

12 wins & 15 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
28 cast members

Name	Known for
Bette Davis Self Self See fewer	All About Eve (1950)
Ian Holm Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Geraldine Fitzgerald Self Self See fewer	Dark Victory (1939)
Anne Baxter Self Self See fewer	All About Eve (1950)
Olivia de Havilland Self Self See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Self (as Joseph Mankiewicz) Self (as Joseph Mankiewicz) See fewer	All About Eve (1950)
Loretta Andrews Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer
George Arliss Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Disraeli (1929)
Richard Barthelmess Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Humphrey Bogart Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Casablanca (1942)
George Brent Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dark Victory (1939)
Joe E. Brown Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Some Like It Hot (1959)
Charles Coburn Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The More the Merrier (1943)
Joseph Cotten Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Citizen Kane (1941)
Henry Fonda Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	12 Angry Men (1957)
Peggy Graves Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer
Paul Henreid Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Casablanca (1942)
Amo Ingraham Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer	The Woman Accused (1933)
Frank McHugh Snap (archive footage) Snap (archive footage) See fewer	The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Robert Montgomery Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lady in the Lake (1946)
Pluma Noisom Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer
William Powell Sherwood Nash (archive footage) Sherwood Nash (archive footage) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Donna Mae Roberts Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer
Lyle Talbot Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952)
Franchot Tone Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Victoria Vinton Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer	Ambush Valley (1936)
Vivian Wilson Chorus Girl (archive footage) Chorus Girl (archive footage) See fewer