From: Anthony Farr
Prompted by Jos's efforts, I found the base image here:
http://classicmoviefavorites.com/davis/davis051.jpg
It also happens to be the image on the cover of "Bette Davis Speaks" as
pictured on Amazon.com. Even though the image has differently posed hands,
I overlaid one on the other and found that Davis's face is 100% identical in
both. The problem is that there is no cigarette in this shot, so I'm left
with egg on my face and with much diminished respect for Roger Ebert who has
apparently misled me.
Still, I'm not too sure. WTF, I wonder, was the artist thinking when he
altered Davis's hand to a position that seemed to hold an invisible
cigarette <snippage>
Perhaps he was thinking the same thing that motivated the painter of the
Robert Johnson stamp to move HIS hands so they fit better on the stamp?
BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has
been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp.
Artistic license. Or maybe he just don't draw hands so good?
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