Most Recent Role: on The Weakest Link (UK)
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Birthday: 4-5-1908
Birth Name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Date of Death: 10-6-1989
Cause of Death: Metastasized Breast Cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Birthday: 4-5-1908
Birth Name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Date of Death: 10-6-1989
Cause of Death: Metastasized Breast Cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Most Recent Appearance
14 February 2001
Wednesday 14 February 2001 on BBC-2
A group of contestants compete together for a prize fund that they accumulate throughout the show. At the end of each round they vote off who they feel was the weakest contestant.
Bette once stated that she felt she was the Marlon Brando of her generation.
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Bette's only biological child was with her third husband, William Grant Sherry, B.D. Hyman (born Barbara Davis Sherry).
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On July 19, 2001, Steven Spielberg purchased Bette's Oscar for Jezebel at a Christie's auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Bette had several nicknames in Hollywood including: "Queen of Hollywood", the "First Lady of the American Screen", and "the Fifth Warner Brother".
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Bette Davis once lived at 1847 Camino Palmero, in Hollywood, California.
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Bette (on working with her nemesis Joan Crawford): The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.
(edit) Bette (after her daughter wrote a tell all book about her): If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. (edit) Bette: I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. (edit) Bette: I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. (edit) Bette: I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. (edit)
(edit) Bette (after her daughter wrote a tell all book about her): If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. (edit) Bette: I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. (edit) Bette: I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. (edit) Bette: I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. (edit)
Other Appearances
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The Hollywood Palace
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Out There - Darkness Miss Fox |
Biography
Bette Davis: If Looks Could Kill. Herself |
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Dinah
July 20, 1977 Herself |
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre
Footnote on a Doll Dolly Madison |
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Four Star Revue
April 19, 1952 Guest |
General Electric Theater
With Malice Toward One Miss Burrows |
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The Weakest Link (UK)
07 December 2000 Producer |
The Weakest Link (UK)
11 December 2000 Producer |
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The Weakest Link (UK)
Bad Losers Producer |
The Weakest Link (UK)
21 August 2000 Executive Producer |
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The Weakest Link (UK)
05 December 2000 Producer |
The Weakest Link (UK)
Champions League Producer |
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"One of the all-time greats"Perfect Deliciously devious, majestically marvelous, she can't be pigeon-holed to one description, that's Bette Davis. The woman had no fear when it came to acting, it was always full out with Bette. Continue » Posted Apr 16, 2007 7:55 am PST |
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