The Little Foxes

Bette Davis's best! She's the ultimate bitch and the story line is exquisite. The perfect example of "What goes around, comes around."... Full review

Bette Davis's best! She's the ultimate bitch and the story line is exquisite. The perfect example of "What goes around, comes around."... Full review

A breathtakingly well done movie. Herbert Marshall is terrific in his understated way with his extremely subtle acting, including minute changes in his facial expression and his use of his hands. Notice how his face, mainly on the left side, turns... Full review

Superb playwright, Lillian Hellman (1905-84) wrote this screenplay for "The Little Foxes," saying that she "wrote her 'angry comedy' based on her own family's biannual dinner at which people drew lots for a diamond that had been left in her... Full review

Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes went from Broadway to Hollywood after it ran 410 performances in the 1939-1940 season through the good offices of Sam Goldwyn. Five members of the Broadway cast came west and repeated their roles, Patricia Collinge,... Full review

"I hope you die.... I hope you die soon... I'll be waiting for you to die...." La Davis could have been invented to deliver Hellmans vicious lines as they pour forth venomously from her over-made up face. However, upon close... Full review

First of all, I really like this movie . The whole cast is fine. I especially like Herbert Marshall, Patricia Collinge, Teresa Wright, Charles Dingle, Jessica Grayson, and especially Bette Davis. Her magnificent portrayal should have won her the best... Full review

Film-making at its best is what describes THE LITTLE FOXES, directed by William Wyler, shot by Gregg Toland -- he of deep focus fame -- adapted from a Lillian Hellman play and with Bette Davis playing a ruthless matriarch with... Full review

The Little Foxes is as entertaining today as it was in 1941. Lillian Hellman's theatrical hit with Tallulah Bankhead is magnificently brought to the screen by William Wyler with Bette Davis in the TB role. Davis received her fourth straight Oscar... Full review

One of the several masterpieces made by master William Wyler, and definetely one of the best movies of all times. As he did in The Letter, Mr. Wyler counted on Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall to play the leading roles... Full review

The Little Foxes is the perfect antidote for anyone suffering from the misguided belief....the amazingly brutal performance of Bette Davis that carries the entire show....the many great performances....The Little Foxes is a blistering statement of human cruelty and avarice that just happens to be set in the same time period.....directs with a fine eye, remaining true to the structure of the play.... ... Full Review

Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. Regina's equally odious brothers (Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid) want her to lend them 75,000 dollars to help build a cotton mill. ... Full Review

If you've ever seen a production of "The Little Foxes" or the 1941 movie version with Bette Davis and wondered how her character, the monstrous Regina Giddens, got that way, "Another Part of the Forest" will answer that question. ... Full Article