Bette Davis演得太好太准确了她完全就是片中可以称之为伟大的女演员同意这段对剧场的论述:To be a good actor or actresses or anything else in the theatre means wanting to be that more than anything else in the world. It means a concentration of desire or ambition and sacrifice such as no other profession demands.
Reality-based drama, satire, farce,...... but with tenderness to all. Even to Thorpe. My favorite part is when his wife commented on his love letter: touched by the rare affection a man shows another man. A jewel, enjoyable in many small, surprising ways.