‘I have been uncompromising, infractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life’ Bette Davis once remarked about her tough-as-nails personality. Today, she continues to personify the independent and strong-willed woman, an image she helped define both on-screen and off, with a career that spanned six decades and an impressive...

Music and cinema seem to have been made for each other, from the days when we watched black and white pictures to the sound of a pianola. Even then, music accompanied the pictures and set the right mood, be it during suspenseful moments, sad scenes or even during a brawl. The empathy between the...