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Michael Arlen (story)
Charles Kenyon (screenplay)
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23 May 1936 (USA) more
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Here She Is! The 1935 Academy Award Winner in her first picture since winning filmdom's highest honor - - the story of that famous "richest girl in the world" from Michael Arlen's daring tale of Florida's frenzied socialites!
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A cafeteria cashier is hired by a cosmetic firm's publicity agent to live the life of Daisy Appleby... more | add synopsis
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When Bette had it with Warners more (8 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bette Davis | ... | Daisy Appleby | |
| George Brent | ... | Johnny Jones | |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Mr. Meyers | |
| Dick Foran | ... | Tommy Blake | |
| Carol Hughes | ... | Hortense Burke-Meyers | |
| Catherine Doucet | ... | Miss Pommesby | |
| Craig Reynolds | ... | Jorgenson | |
| Ivan Lebedeff | ... | Count Guilliano | |
| G.P. Huntley | ... | Aubrey Rutherford (as G.P. Huntley Jr.) | |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | DeWolfe | |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Mr. Appleby | |
| Eddie Acuff | ... | Davis | |
| Earle Foxe | ... | Alfred Parker | |
| Rafael Storm | ... | Prince Peter | |
| E.E. Clive | ... | Walker |
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68 min
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Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #2025) | Australia:G
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Referenced in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV) more
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I knew nothing of this movie before starting to watch it however within minutes it became quickly apparent that she is surrounded by a cast below her league and I began to wonder if this was Bette Davis's last Warner Bros picture which indeed it was.
Prickly, fastidious Bette Davis knew her own worth and while other stars - see Rosalind Russel in "The Women" - could clown as well as be serious, Davis's haughtiness and seriousness about her craft made this an absolute no no. Here amiable George Brent was no "A List" star and some of the support is decidedly mediocre. In the movie she has longish exchanges with, and must submit to being I think playfully slapped on the back by, an actor some leagues below her. She was an actress who could and did frequently signal boredom and distaste when the plot has her in substandard company. In terms of fellow cast it is clear that she is here but the script demands that she doesn't indicate or feel that.
As a viewer I thought the movie was more than she could - or deserved to - take. That Warners did not see that is curious. Perhaps their sense hitherto of owning, contractually, their stars who had to do what they were told. Perhaps it is hindsight - what the world came to know later of her character and talent. "Now Voyager" has her cast as a drab - she was not vain about her appearance, but in that, cast with the superbly charming, intelligent talented Claude Raines she had a part and co-star equally worthy of her talent. She was surely right to demand that the parts and co-stars matched her own high standards. Classic movies fully worthy of her talent were the result.