![]() ‘Do you see all those stars up there? There are millions and millions of them. ![]() “I sat in a reverie staring at the stars, the sky was silver with them,” she wrote in The Lonely Life. Much of Davis’s life could be seen as a rebuke to her father, Harlow-a stern, Harvard-trained patent lawyer whom she could never please. As her autobiographies prove, there was so much more to Davis’s wild life even than what we saw in 2017’s Feud, which charted her fabled dispute with co-star Joan Crawford. Consequently, her 1962 autobiography The Lonely Life and its 1987 follow-up, This ‘N That, are not short of opinions-many hard-edged, but a few remarkably tender. ![]() Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in 1908, the legendary movie star was a tireless perfectionist and workaholic with little patience for those who did not share her vision. ![]()
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