Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies

Name: Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies
Start: 2024-10-19T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Bell Theater at Bell Works

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Bell Theater at Bell Works | Holmdel, NJ

Directed by Drama Desk Award winner Karen Carpenter, Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies stars multi-talented actress, writer, and producer Jessica Sherr as the Golden Age Hollywood diva as she courageously battles sexism and inequality. On the night of the 1939 Oscars, Bette returns home knowing she’s to lose Best Actress to Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara, because the press has leaked the winners. Miss Davis takes us on the bumpy ride of her tumultuous rise, as this tenacious actress fights her way up the studio system to reach the top of her profession. Through conversations with her mother Ruthie, scenes with Olivia De Havilland, her love affairs with film director William Wyler and eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes, her dysfunctional relationship with her daughter, her four failed marriages, and her groundbreaking court case with Warner Brothers, we experience Bette’s most defining and most vulnerable moments, a look into the mind of a global icon whose voice could not remain silent.