<p>She was the tempestuous strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in <em>Of Human Bondage</em> <em>Jezebel</em> and <em>All About Eve</em>. Off-camera Bette Davis fought endless contractual battles with studios and survived four disastrous marriages earning a larger-than-life reputation as an actress to be reckoned with. In this extraordinary biography fans and film historians will discover a different darker side of Bette Davis: a woman beset with scarring personal and professional doubts a daughter whose mother was devoted to her success and a mother who loved her own daughter to distraction. Obsessive and compulsive Davis was happy only when she was working but did not always choose her projects wisely. She fought a lifelong battle with alcohol and she had an insatiable need to be loved often at great emotional cost. A legend a star a remarkable woman Bette Davis lived her life as if it were a coveted role she was desperately afraid she might not win.</p>