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Title: The essence of a Hollywood legend, if not the whole story
Review: Having read several of Higham's biographies, I've come to the conclusion that he's more or less in the category of Kitty Kelley, if not quite as free and easy with twisting the truth around.This bio. is itself, ok, but could have been a lot better. For one thing, (big pet peeve), The author is simply not careful with dates, and therefore one worries that he's not careful with other information as well. For example, observant readers will love Bette's 13-month-long pregnancy with daughter BD Hyman.The book was published in 1981, and so is pre-Bette's strokes and mastectomy, and pre "My Mother's Keeper".Not a bad read, but there are many others, written a little more carefully and covering Bette's entire life, which are more worth the reader's time.
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