Review of Winter Meeting

I am trying to watch every Bette Davis movie from the 1940's and 1950's. If you expect something as compelling as "Now, Voyager!", "A Stolen Life" or "Beyond the Forest", you will be very disappointed from "Winter Meeting". It's over-loaded with dialogue and not a very witty one. Bette Davis hair-do is not becoming at all (these very short bangs were a terrible fashion!) and she doesn't wear the slightest hint of eyeliner or eye shadow. I'm sure the make up department could have made her look prettier. So it's hard to imagine that Jim Davis falls for her instead of chatty Janis Paige. The only good scenes which I rated with 2 stars were those outside of Manhattan when Davis and Davis enjoyed the sunny winter day in a horse-drawn sleigh.

I kept watching and watching, hoping at some point the story would pick up, but it never did. Don't waste your time with this one.