Anatole Litvak

[5] Bette Davis marries Errol Flynn and moves to San Francisco, but their happy marriage begins to disintegrate when he can’t support the couple and turns to drinking. It may be the writing more than the performances, but there’s not much chemistry between Flynn and Davis (who hated each other in real life). The film sticks primarily with Davis’ character, short-changing the subplots revolving around …

[6] Tired of her boyfriend’s sexual indiscretions, Ingrid Bergman reluctantly begins an affair with a much younger man played by Anthony Perkins. The relationship is doomed from the start, of course, and everything ends in tears. Bergman is uncharacteristically manic in this movie. There’s a nice scene where she’s crying behind the wheel and turns on the windshield wipers to see better, even though it’s …