Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), full name Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was an American actress of the stage, cinema and television. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She was nicknamed "The Queen of Hollywood" or the "First Lady of the American Screen" and "The Fifth Warner Brother" during her career.
Davis had held the most Academy Award nominations for any actress (with ten) until Katharine Hepburn took her place with twelve.
Bette Davis made over 100 films across 60 years. Some of the most popular films include:[1][2] Of Human Bondage (1934), Marked Woman (1937), Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Mr. Skeffington (1944), All About Eve (1950), The Virgin Queen (1955), The Catered Affair (1956), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Death on the Nile (1978) and The Whales of August (1987).
In 1981 Kim Carnes sang the hit song "Bette Davis Eyes".[3] Davis liked the song. Carnes gave Davis a gold record. Davis hung the gold record on a wall.[4]
The Kennedy Center honored Davis in 1987.[5] She died of breast cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Bette Davis Media
Bette Davis and Donald Meek in Broken Dishes (1929). "I was now a bona fide Broadway actress—in a hit," Davis wrote.
Bette Davis in Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Davis in Jezebel (1938)
Davis with Errol Flynn in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Davis with Spencer Tracy at the 1939 Academy Awards
Davis often played unlikable characters such as Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes (1941).
Davis with Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager (1942), one of her most iconic roles
In The Corn Is Green (1945)
Other websites
- Bette Davis at Classic Actresses Archived 2006-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Classic Movies (1939 - 1969): Bette Davis Archived 2007-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Bette Davis on IMDb
Sources
- ↑ "18 Best Bette Davis Movies - IMDb". IMDb.com. 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ↑ "The Top 20 Movies Starring Bette Davis - Flickchart". FlickChart.com. 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ↑ Huey, Steve (July 20, 1945). "( Kim Carnes > Biography )". allmusic. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
- ↑ Bubbeo, Daniel (2001). The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each. McFarland. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7864-1137-5.
- ↑ "List of Kennedy Center Honorees". Kennedy-center.org. Retrieved January 7, 2010.
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