Bette Davis in JEZEBEL Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

Great news for fans of Bette Davis! JEZEBEL (1938) is Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

While movie fans were abuzz over who might play Scarlett O’Hara in the upcoming Gone with the Wind, Bette Davis got another Southern-belle role – and gave a fiery performance that won the 1938 Best Actress Academy Award®. Davis plays Julie, a New Orleans beauty whose constant attempts to goad fiance? Pres Dillard(Henry Fonda) to jealousy backfire. Angry and disgraced, Pres breaks their engagement and leaves town. Julie endures a year of remorse until Pres comes home – married. Then her vengeance explodes. Jezebel is also noted for its sumptuous sets and costumes, Fay Bainter’s Oscar®-winning* performance and William Wyler’s vivid direction, highlighted by a horrifying re-creation of a yellow fever epidemic. But the film’s greatest strength is Davis, whose titanic talent has never been better displayed than in Jezebel.

In one of her most acclaimed performances, Bette Davis personifies a woman scorned in William Wyler’s unforgettable portrait of a Southern belle whose charms are only equaled by her viciousness. Henry Fonda plays the man that defies and drives her. Davis plays Julie, whose constant attempts to make her fiancé Preston Dillard (Fonda) jealous spectacularly backfires, and Dillard breaks the engagement and leaves town. His return sparks an explosion of jealousy and vengeance. Painstakingly restored to a pristine print in glorious Black and White, Jezebel’s sumptuous sets and costumes, Wyler’s vivid direction and, most of all, Davis’ truly stunning performance are seen as never before in this 1080p HD transfer for Blu-ray Disc. Special Features: Commentary by Film Historian Jeanine Basinger; Featurette “Jezebel: Legend of the South”; Vintage Musical Short “Melody Masters: Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra”; Classic Cartoon ” Daffy Duck in Hollywood”(HD); Rarely-seen promo-teaser “Ramblin ‘Round the Hollywood Studio with the Candid Cameraman”; Theatrical Reissue trailer (HD)