Three quarters of a century later, Ms. de Havilland is hoping for another victory. Directed by Robert Aldrich, it was a surprise hit in a Hollywood being slowly subsumed by the counterculture, featuring a sadistic Ms. Davis in Kabuki makeup mentally torturing her paraplegic sister, played by Ms. Crawford. PhotoFor her performance, Ms. Davis received her final Best Actress nomination, evidently sending the spurned Ms. Crawford on a furious campaign of Oscar-night, anti-Bette subterfuge. In the end, Ms. Davis lost to the absent Anne Bancroft for “The Miracle Worker,” and a triumphant Ms. Crawford strode onto the stage to accept the statuette in Ms. Bancroft’s honor. By the ’70s, and ’80s, Ms. de Havilland was down to sporadic mini-series, disaster movies and TV guest spots.

Source: New York Times March 03, 2018 10:52 UTC