![]() ![]() ![]() They would remain so for the rest of Bette’s life. Stine put his fandom to good use writing a book about Bette’s career, Mother Goddam, for which she agreed to write a running commentary… and in the process, the two became close friends. This story is recounted early on in “I’d Love to Kiss You…” Conversations with Bette Davis, Stine’s 1990 book about the friendship that eventually grew between himself and Davis. Eventually, that same sister who had given him the stack of fan magazines took him to see his first Davis picture: Jezebel. He threw out all but the Davis clippings, and continued to collect material on her as he grew older. When he got through that stack of magazines, he realized that one actress appeared in his favorite clippings more than any other: Bette Davis. His sister had a solution: she gave him a stack of fan magazines, left over from her own clip-collection of Jean Harlow, and told him to get to work on a scrapbook. ![]() Plagued by a series of illnesses as a child, Stine was often confined to his bedroom, unable to take up an outdoor hobby. Whitney Stine became a fan of Bette Davis before he’d seen even one of her films. ![]()
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