
Nobody's as good as Bette when she's bad!
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
- 6.7
- 1949
- Released
- 1h 37m

Bette Davis
Rosa Moline
Joseph Cotten
Doctor Louis Moline
David Brian
Neil Latimer
Ruth Roman
Carol
Minor Watson
Moose
Dona Drake
Jenny
Regis Toomey
Sorren
Sarah Selby
Mildred
Ann Doran
Edith Williams
Bess Flowers
Secretary
Creighton Hale
Townsman with Glasses
Dorothy Vernon
Townswoman
Judith Wood
Waitress
Joel Allen

Gail Bonney

Frances Charles

James Craven

June Evans

Hal Gerard

Bobby Henshaw

Hallene Hill

Charles Jordan

Jack Kenney

Ralph Littlefield

Eve Miller

Frank Pharr

Buddy Roosevelt

Sherman Sanders

Mary Servoss

Olan Soule

Eileen Stevens

Harry Tyler


Released
en
$1,589,000.00
$1,738,000.00
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