Top 10 Best Bette Davis Movies: Films With The Diva’s Campiest Performances
Despite her imposing talent, it’s actually not that hard to whittle down the top 10 best Bette Davis movies. Her films come from an era marked by melodrama that’s best appreciated though the lens of camp, and, even then, there’s only a few that are worth a second watch.
Even the author of this article — a diehard Bette fan who could perform All About Eve from memory as a one-man show if he ever ended up isolated on a desert island — admits that not all of the ten films listed here could be considered great, even if Davis is always beyond great in them. The very definition of camp, taken from the seminal 1964 Susan Sontag essay “Notes on Camp,” describes it as “the love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.”
