What is your favorite Bette Davis performance?

Thank you for that funny anecdote, Toasted Cheese.  There is an entire book that is centered around the lives and personalities and the relationship between Joan and Bette, called "The Divine Feud".    It is the funniest thing I have ever read in my life.   Basically you could just say that everybody in Hollywood was scared to death of Joan Crawford.   That is, everybody except one.  Bette Davis wouldn't have backed down if her life depended on it.  

This is a very funny excerpt from the book.  ...While Blanche was being starved to death by her evil sister, Joan lost weight in some areas of her body.  As the hollows in her cheeks grew deeper and her waist became smaller, her breasts became larger.  "Christ!" said Bette.  "You never know what size boobs that broad has strapped on!  She must have a different set for each day of the week!  She's supposed to be shrivelling away, but her tits keep growing!  I keep running into them, like the Hollywood Hills!"

Yes.  100% absolutely.  She was the epitome of self-confidence, and in a healthy way.  Not off-putting at all, but very magnetic.    I love watching her old interviews on Youtube.   She's just so much fun.   Also, in a later interview, Johnny Carson asked Davis if there was one person she would never want to act with, and Bette said, without so much as a blink, "Yes.  One million dollars, Faye Dunaway".   It was almost startling and very funny.   She said that Dunaway was unprofessional and totally self-serving.   You hardly ever hear an actor bad mouth another actor, but Bette Davis could get away with it because she was a soldier to the end.   And you knew she had her good reasons.