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JezebelThe crucial event in this 1850s-set melodrama is the insistence of Jezebel (Davis) on attending the debutante ball in a flame-red dress when all about her are dressed in virginal white. (Actually it was bottle green, which photographed better in mono). She is accompanied by the handsome Preston (Fonda), but he leaves her after the shame and mortification of this social (sexual) faux pas, for a gentler maiden. Bette suffers nobly, but when Preston is stricken by the plague she returns to the fray and, in an unforgettable scene, drives him off in the back of her buggy to Plague Island - to nurse her true love.
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