“I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.”

— Henry Fonda

This 'n that‎ (1987) by Bette Davis and Mickey Herskowitz. Putnam's. p. 98. ISBN 0399132465.

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