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03889aam a2200505 i 4500 001 59915A2CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210419t20212021ilua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2021017850 020 $a 022681386X 020 $a 9780226813868 020 $a 022681369X 020 $a 9780226813691 035 $a (OCoLC)1241244245 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN2287.D32 $b S65 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Stern, Julia A., $e author. 245 10 $a Bette Davis black and white / $c Julia A. Stern. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 266 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "From the 1930s to the 1960s, Bette Davis was not only Hollywood's brightest star but one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race, promoting Black actors, joining Black political organizations, and taking on roles that highlighted the tragedy of American racism. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia Stern explores this untold part of Davis's career. Stern also weaves into the book her own experience as a young viewer, telling the story of how she, a Jewish teenager in a white suburb, embraced Davis as her idol and learned from the Black performers in Davis's company. There was, for example, Ernest Anderson, whom Davis mentored and arranged to be cast opposite her in In This Our Life (1942), and who wrote a speech for his character that would become the signal expression of anti-racism in the movies of that decade. Stern discusses this and other Bette Davis films-notably The Little Foxes (1941), Jezebel (1938), and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)-against the history of American race relations. In Stern's hands, Davis's egalitarian politics, and the original way in which she and her Black costars collaborated, offer a window into mid-century American racial fantasy and the efforts of Black performers to disrupt it. She incorporates testimony from Davis's Black fans, including James Baldwin and C.L.R. James, as well as the African Americans who wrote letters to Warner Brothers praising Davis's work. Stern also grapples with an episode-at once dismaying and illustrative of Davis's contradictions-in which the aging star donned blackface"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Black and white -- Little Foxes and little brown wrens -- The poetics of color in Jezebel -- Melodramas of blood in In This Our Life -- The whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Bette Davis black and white. 600 10 $a Davis, Bette, $d 1908-1989. 600 10 $a Davis, Bette, $d 1908-1989 $x Friends and associates. 600 17 $a Davis, Bette, $d 1908-1989. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00012063 650 0 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $z United States. 650 0 $a African American motion picture actors and actresses $z United States. 650 0 $a African Americans in the motion picture industry $z United States. 650 0 $a African Americans in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Race in motion pictures. 650 7 $a African American motion picture actors and actresses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799268 650 7 $a African Americans in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799733 650 7 $a African Americans in the motion picture industry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799738 650 7 $a Friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935174 650 7 $a Motion picture actors and actresses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027096 650 7 $a Race in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086507 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030503.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59915A2CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search