The Pulse of Entertainment: Morgana Shaw is Bette Davis in ‘All About Bette: An Interlude with Bette Davis'
February 11, 2025 at the Palms Springs Cultural Center
by Dr. Eunice Moseley
(December 3, 2024) - "She ages backwards. It's a transformative piece,"
said actress Morgana Shaw (Hitman on Netflix) about "All About Bette: An Interlude
with Bette Davis" which she stars in as two-time Academy Award winning Bette Davis, premiering February
11, 2025 at The Palms Springs Cultural Center (7pm). "When I picked up the script....I loved it. Takes in humanity. It's
not about her beauty...it's the rawness...I think Bette knew how to tap into that."
The one-women show, starring Shaw started in 2006! The February 11th show is produced by Shane Peterman (Pure
Country). The script is written by Camilla Carr (soap-opera "Another World"). Emmy nominated Robert Wagner ("It
Takes a Thief"), who just turned 95, has a special narrative in the play.
"It's the funny Bette, the heartbroken
Bette, her marriages and divorces," Morgana said seriously. "Camilla Carr did her homework!"
A SAG-AFTRA member, Morgana
started her career as a dancer in Dallas, Texas. Her break-out role as an actress was in 1996 in "A Promise to Carolyn."
Bette Davis is also a 10x Academy nominated actress known for her roles in All About Eve, Whatever Happen to Baby Jane?, Death
on the Nile, and Voyager. She received a Kennedy Honor, the first women to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American
Film Instituted, and an Emmy Award.
"She took the roles that had fire or grit," Morgana pointed out to me as
we discussed Bette Davis's body of work. "That was not normal in Hollywood, especially at that time. I can relate to
how she felt about her looks - it's not what Hollywood said was beautiful...and it's still Hollywood. They set a standard
of what beautiful looks like."
Morgana Shaw credits also include Salem (2014), Friday Night Lights (2006), Mad Money
(2008)
"She's (All About Bette: An Interlude with Bette Davis) been
on a journey...feels like a resurrection. It's a new production...to be with people who appreciate her," she added sincerely.
"It will feel like you are in the room with Bette . I feel as if I am Bette...I completely become her. There's a connection
with people who know her body of work. I react to the audience."
I told
Morgana while waiting for our interview I was looking at the "She's Got Bette Davis Eyes" music video of the hit
song by Kim Carnes, written by Donna Weiss (lyrics) and Jackie DeShannon (melody) in 1974.
She laughed a little and said, "I
was told I have Bette Davis eyes. I didn't know who she was, I didn't know she would be my body of work." www.AllAboutBette.us
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