Remembering Bette Davis

My acquaintance with her started almost 50 years ago, on her stopover in Chicago while en route from Hollywood to New York. As a young press agent in my 20s, working for Warner Bros. Pictures, I introduced her to the Chicago press and theater owners. An exciting day it was, for even at that early stage of her career, she was an outstanding actress, a brilliant conversationalist who enchanted those who met her.

My association with her continued at Warner Bros. studios after World War II on such outstanding pictures as “Watch On the Rhine,” “Mr. Skeffington,” “The Corn Is Green,” “Deception” and others. At that time I was in charge of the photo department. What particularly stands out in my memory over the years is that the working crew of whatever picture she was making always held her in awe and regarded her as the “queen.”

Bette Davis has departed from this earth and is now a bright star among the brightest of stars.

MONROE RUBINGER

Beverly Hills