It's like the juggler who loses it twice and then gets it, you know, finally. Hyman published a scandalous book about Bette called "My Mother's Keeper." An affair now and then is good for a marriage. [on sex] God's biggest joke on human beings. I always had the will to win. They are bottomless. Ernie Davis became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy before his life was tragically cut short by leukemia at the age of 23. [in 1982] Acting should be bigger than life. But that's a bunch of BS. B.D. I find that tedious and quite insane. Maternal great great granddaughter of Cutting (1806-1881) and Hannah (née Gordon) Favor (1809-1882). Davis received her second Oscar for her performance as a rebellion Southern belle in 1938's Jezebel. The male ego, with few exceptions, is elephantine to start with. I see - she's the original good time that was had by all. Warner Bros. felt their seven-year deal with Bette was more than justified. In 1935, she received her first Oscar for her role in Dangerous (1935) as Joyce Heath.In 1936, she was suspended without pay for turning down a role that she deemed unworthy of her talent. I felt it baking cookies. Pee-tah!". In the horror movie (and camp classic) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? She worked in films through the 1950s, but her career eventually came to a standstill, and in 1961 she placed a now famous Job Wanted ad in the trade papers.She received an Oscar nomination for her role as a demented former child star in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Two years later, she starred in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). [to TV interviewer Dick Cavett] People say, when I'm coming on with someone like you for ninety minutes, "Don't you want to know what's going to happen?" Was one of the many people in the entertainment business who lived in The Osborne Apartments in Manhattan. Davis is still considered an icon for her performances in such films as All About Eve and Dark Victory, as well as for her larger-than-life persona both on and off the silver screen. She also appeared in "Solid South". One of her final film roles was that of a blind woman in The Whales of August (1987), appearing opposite Lillian Gish. She became a movie star, and I became the great actress. Christ, what a cold bitch. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but then she discovered the stage, and gave up dancing for acting. When Bette learned that her new brother-in-law was a recovering alcoholic, she sent the couple a dozen cases of liquor for a wedding present. [on being idolized and spoiled while traveling] This is *part* of the reward, but boy, you don't get that for a long time! She also appeared on television, winning an Emmy Award for 1979's Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter. I became my own father and everyone else's. [when told not to speak ill of the dead] Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed! Subject of the book "Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner -- And Stayed..." by Elizabeth Fuller. Why am I so good at playing bitches? LIFE magazine described her performance in, Davis, whom most critics and cinema historians rank as the greatest American movie actress ever, sent a letter to. While married to Gary Merrill, her co-star in All About Eve, she adopted two children, Margot and Michael; the marriage ended in divorce. I've been known as difficult for 50 years, practically! https://www.biography.com/actor/bette-davis. It is said that one of her real true loves was director. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood. When she first came to Hollywood as a contract player, Universal Pictures wanted to change her name to Bettina Dawes. Davis won her first Academy Award in 1935, for her role as a troubled young actress in Dangerous. In the dubbing of her films into Brazilian Portuguese, she was voiced most of the time by actresses / voice actors Ida Gomes, Ilka Pinheiro, Glória Ladany and Selma Lopes. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! No one leaves movies for the stage unless they can't get work; and I'm no exception. Lucille Ball was one of her classmates. Was the first actor to receive ten Academy Award nominations. Well, we all have life, 24, 12 hours a day, and sometimes we want to forget life, you know. I don't think of myself as a character actress. Truthfully! Desperately wanted to win a third Best Actress Oscar for, Each of her four husbands were Gentiles, while her friend. Shirley MacLaine is one of Hollywood's legendary leading ladies, known for a range of films that include 'The Apartment,' 'Sweet Charity' and 'Terms of Endearment.'. Davis began to audition for theater parts in New York, and in 1929 she made her stage début at Greenwich Village's Provincetown Playhouse in The Earth Between. Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. Because that isn't what you want the most. The television series "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast" (1974) once roasted Bette Davis. The statue, four dancing nymphs, was later found in the possession of a private Massachusetts collector. Publicity Listings To look back is to relax one's vigil. When any women came up to her, she just glared at us like this! So if I'm *fool* enough to talk about it, then it's not your fault, it's mine. The eyes are among the most important parts of your body. It should ALL be bigger than life. The money is the gravy. She had been learning Welsh in order to come to Wales; however, she only used the words "Nos Da" (meaning "good night") while in the country and had forgotten all the other phrases she had learned. She appeared in the horror movie Burnt Offerings (1976) and was part of the all-star ensemble cast of the Agatha Christie mystery Death on the Nile (1979). That's become a phrase that means you've had it. (1962). [When asked by Johnny Carson about who she was inspired by] No-one, but that I always envied Katherine Hepburn's looks. She's also known for her civic work with husband Ossie Davis. Bette Davis turned down Mildred Pierce (1945). Ruby Dee was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, activist, poet and journalist, perhaps best known for starring in the 1961 film A Raisin in the Sun. Merrill became alienated from her stepfather, Gary Merrill, and began using her original surname, Sherry, when she was sixteen. In 1985, her daughter Barbara Davis ("B.D.") I've never looked back before. They never knew it! Bette was married four times.In 1977 she received the AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award and in 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979). In 1938, Bette received a second Academy Award win for her work in Jezebel (1938) opposite the soon-to-be-legendary Henry Fonda. Pee-tah! Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress with a career spanning more than 50 years and 100 acting credits. Stars are people *too*. Was under contract to Warner Brothers from 1932 to 1949. ', One of America's most beloved comedians, Lucille Ball is particularly known for her iconic television show 'I Love Lucy.'. She never *quits* being Joan Crawford. Bette Davis is remembered as one of Hollywood's legendary leading ladies, famous for her larger-than-life persona and for her nearly 100 film appearances. When she was seven years old, her father divorced her mother, who was left to raise Bette and younger daughter Barbara on her own. Davis married four times. Her restless little spirit was impatiently awaiting her next line, her golden curls quivering with expectancy. Scripts should be bigger than life. She has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: In November 2019, she was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month. She claimed to have given the Academy Award the nickname "Oscar" after her first husband, Murdoch University (Western Australia) Communications Senior Lecturer Tara Brabazon, in her article "The Spectre of the Spinster: Bette Davis and the Epistemology of the Shelf," quotes the court testimony of Davis' first husband. Maternal great granddaughter of Jacob (1830-1899), born in the state of New Hampshire, and Augusta (née Freeman) Favor (1832-1914), born in the state of Maine. Although she sued to get out of her contract, she lost. Paternal great granddaughter of Alexander (1818-1885) and Elizabeth (née Seavey) Morrell (1817-1904). Filmed a television pilot for a show to be called "The Bette Davis Show" (1965), which was not picked up for series by any of the television networks, but which was broadcast as a television movie entitled, In honor of her 100th birthday, she was honored as Turner Classic Movie's Star of the Month. Davis received her first Academy Award nomination for her performance as the vulgar, cold-hearted waitress Mildred. Described the last three decades of her life as a "my macabre period". Her personal papers are on deposit at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University. I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. Many of her fans refused to believe she was gone. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? Like many bad interviews, this is what happens: it's the actor's fault. In 1975, she came to Cardiff for a theatre tour and went to the Welsh Valleys in search of relatives - and found them. Whilst a student at Cushing Academy, she saw a production of "The Wild Duck", which inspired her to seriously pursue acting. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. Great songs about eyes have been a mainstay in all musical disciplines, written by rock stars, rappers, and country musicians. After the interview appeared, Bostonians searched for the statue in vain. I was a person who couldn't make divorce work. At the time of her death, she was on her way home from a film festival in Spain, where she had just been honored for her work in film. On work: This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Warner Brothers sent me a letter saying they wanted to use a clip from. Warners wanted her to change her name to Bettina. She informed the studio that she refused to go through life with a name that sounded like "Between the Drawers". "I am returning to the stage, to refine my craft." Bette Davis received world-wide recognition as an award-winning American actress during the 20th Century. Was the highest paid woman in the United States (1942). El nombre de Davis se puso de moda entre el público más joven cuando la canción de Jackie DeShannon, «Bette Davis Eyes», se convirtió en un éxito mundial gracias a la versión interpretada por Kim Carnes y fue uno de los registros musicales más vendidos de 1981 en los EE. They had a genuine star on their hands. They are always parched and always bitter. She only wanted to see the men. Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. On experience: Old age ain't no place for sissies. She considered her debut screen test for Universal Pictures to be so bad that she ran screaming from the projection room. She was voted the 25th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere magazine. Her parents divorced when she was 10. Featured speakers included her son. They are insatiable. Attended Northfield Mount Hermon High School in Norfield, Massachusetts. Both were born and raised in the state of New Hampshire. Was the highest ranking female on Quigley Publishing's Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll from 1939 to 1941. She had an old barn dismantled in Vermont and used it to build Butternut Lodge higher up on her Sugar Hill property. She was very proud of her Yankee roots, and her four husbands were also Yankees, that being one of the things that attracted her to them. Maybe that's why [. She was of English descent, and also had remote Scottish and Welsh roots. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes Bette Lou's Getting Out Tonight - Bob Seger Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons Big Hunk O' Love - Elvis Presley Big Iron - Marty Robbins Bird Dog - Everly Brothers Birds And The Bees - Jewel Akens Birthday - Beatles Bits And Pieces - Dave Clark Five Black And White - … She wrote a book, "This 'N That", during her recovery from the stroke. Sherry, that day was chosen by Davis so that her daughter's birthday could be celebrated on May Day, with children walking around a maypole. She said she had no idea who Pee-tah was and had never even met anyone by that name. Official Sites, Smirking after her delivery of impactful lines, Ranked #15 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. I can hole up for just so long, then I gotta get out and stir things up again. I became fascinated watching them appear one by one. In 1982, she was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award, for founding and running the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. In 1934, Warner Brothers loaned Davis to RKO Pictures for Of Human Bondage, a drama based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. A number of critical and box-office successes followed: She played a heiress coming to terms with mortal illness in Dark Victory and Elizabeth I in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (both released in 1939), and went on to deliver several well-received performances in films of the 1940s, including The Little Foxes; the comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner; the American drama Now, Voyager; and the drama The Corn is Green. We strive for accuracy and fairness. Being 60 was fairly frightening. Her tear ducts must be very close to her bladder. [After hearing that Joan Crawford cried copiously over "Dark Victory"] Joan always cries a lot. Onscreen, Bette Davis played spinsters named Charlotte in three different movies: Returned to work three months after giving birth to her daughter, Played twin Sisters Kate and Patricia Bosworth in, She was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Love is not as necessary to a man's happiness as it is to a woman's. Mark is forced to prosecute his childhood icon, Samara Strong (Lesley Ann Warren), an 80's Hollywood star accused of murdering her husband 30 years ago. They did not want her to work anywhere. If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it. Her second husband Arthur Farnsworth died after a fall on Hollywood Boulevard in which he took a blow to the head. Meredy and Ed Stephan and Denny Jackson, Other Works I think it would've made a whole different salary scale in California, yes, I do. When she died in 1989, she reportedly left an estate valued between $600,000 and $1 million, consisting mainly of a condominium apartment she owned in West Hollywood. After a brief theater career, she became one of the biggest stars in the Hollywood studio system, appearing in nearly 100 films before her death in 1989. It's half for income and half for me. Her mother was Ruth Favor. I think it's because I'm not a bitch. She enrolled in John Murray Anderson's Dramatic School and was the star pupil. Originally discovered in New York as part of a chorus on stage, Crawford signed with MGM in 1924.The Mildred Pierce actress was "an excellent businesswoman who, in her four-decade career, understood how to shift her looks to reflect the modern woman," writes Vulture, adding … Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in 1908, the legendary movie star was a tireless perfectionist and workaholic with little patience for those who did not share her vision. [on Miriam Hopkins] Miriam is a perfectly charming person, socially. She had a sister, Barbara Davis. She didn't even attend his funeral, because it was on the east coast, and she was on the west coast filming her Academy Award winning performance in. Was named #2 on The Greatest Screen Legends actress list by the American Film Institute. You want to get on that stage and work. Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette has had a long career in film and television, continually showing her great range as a performer across genres. Some of her other work during this time was more lurid, however. If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world. On sexual politics: I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete. She met her fourth and last husband, Gary Merrill, when they co-starred in. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1999). She hated being alone at night and found growing older "terrifying". On December 4, 2018, she was honored with a Sketch of the Day caricature on the website of South Carolina based artist Greg Joens. As a teen, Davis began acting in school productions at the Cushing Academy in Massachusetts. Her last book was "Bette Davis, The Lonely Life", issued in paperback in 1990. Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star. Everything about him reflected his elegance, from his name to his manners. Was the fifth recipient of the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. She became a star after this appearance, known as the actress that could play a variety of very strong and complex roles. Other famous residents have included. By the time she severed ties with Warner Brothers in 1949, Davis was one of its largest talents. Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908, in Lowell Massachusetts, to Ruth (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis. She wrote the last chapter in San Sebastian, Spain.Sadly, Bette Davis died on October 6, 1989, of metastasized breast cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. - IMDb Mini Biography By: She suffered a stroke and had a mastectomy (1983). She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6335 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. This is the only marriage of hers that ended in death, not divorce. I *don't* want to know the questions ahead, because number one, I trust your taste, but if you should ask me something that I *really* don't want to go into, I'd give a *perfectly* nice smile, not insulting, and say, "I don't want to talk about it." To her, it presented much more of a challenge.After graduation from Cushing Academy, she was refused admittance to Eva Le Gallienne's Manhattan Civic Repertory. And I think it should be a *little* larger than life. She and her sister were raised by their mother. And it's always always to make it the best film I can make it! With Simone Missick, Wilson Bethel, Jessica Camacho, J. Alex Brinson. Played dual roles of twin sisters in two movies: She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture. Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, just outside and to the left of the main entrance to the Court of Remembrance. I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. [after attending President Jimmy Carter's 1977 inauguration] Miss Lillian [the President's mother] doesn't like any women. It's a showdown between him and celebrity lawyer Adam Pryce (Jere Burns), who makes a mockery of the courthouse. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. If her marriage is satisfactory, a woman will seldom stray. She was perfectly terrible to all of us at the inauguration. Sammy Davis Jr. was a highly popular actor, comedian, singer and dancer. He was also part of the Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, with whom he starred in several films. She went to England, where she had planned to make movies, but was stopped by Warner Bros. because she was still under contract to them. When I die, they'll probably auction off my false eyelashes. She was a solid supporter of. [when told that "at one time" she had a reputation for being difficult] At one time?! The weak are the most treacherous of us all. I suppose I'm larger than life. Starred in seven Oscar Best Picture nominees: The first actor of any gender to earn seven, eight, nine and ten Academy Award nominations in the acting categories. Nobody can *make* you talk about something. [on her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth] Farney was a real charmer, but an alcoholic who was tied to his mother's apron strings... and what a mother. Anybody who does an interview with drinks is a fool. I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black afro wig, wore black clothes, and hung a black wreath on my door. She was elected as first female president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in October 1941. In my day, we earned that recognition. Singer and actress Bette Midler has been honored with multiple Grammy Awards and Oscar nominations for her work in films like 'The Rose' and 'Beaches.' With third husband William Grant Sherry, Davis had a daughter named Barbara. In Italian films, she was dubbed in most cases by, Was first offered the role of Luke's mother in, During her great film career, she reportedly did not get along with her co-stars. He had shortly before banged his head on a train between LA and New England, followed by another fall down the stairway at their New Hampshire home. The only role she didn't get that she wanted was Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). When I was filming Dangerous in 1935, I had a crush on my costar, Franchot Tone. For many years, she was a popular target for impressionists but she was perplexed by the often used phrase "Pee-tah! A man can be totally contented and still be out howling at the moon. Attended Cushing Academy; a prep school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Mum Bett (Elizabeth Freeman) was among the first enslaved people in Massachusetts to successfully sue for her freedom, encouraging the state to abolish slavery. In 1977-78 she moved from Connecticut to Los Angeles and filmed a pilot for the series Hotel (1983), which she called Brothel. A little bit theatrical. According to the book "My Mother's Keeper" by B.D. In the early 1980s, she was once asked by an interviewer if she had any regrets about her career. On growth: I have always been driven by some distant music -- a battle hymn no doubt -- for I have been at war from the beginning. She then appeared in The Petrified Forest with male stars Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart in 1937. But I don't *think* Joan Crawford ever sleeps. They only respected you by how much money you made. Which is a very old-fashioned theory today. What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent. She said that among the jokes told about her, her favorite came from impressionist. Davis depicted Elizabeth I again in The Virgin Queen (1955) and appeared in Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana on Broadway in 1961. Actors are complete suckers for good parts, you know, and just saying, "You did a *good* job, Bette!" Miriam was her own worst enemy. Working with her is another story. Was portrayed by Kelly Moore in the stage play "Jezebel and Me". She was featured in another horror film in 1964, Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte, and then played an eye-patch-wearing matriarch in the melodrama The Anniversary in 1968. Was signed to a contract at Universal Studios in 1930. More fairly successful movies followed, but it was the role of Mildred Rogers in RKO's Of Human Bondage (1934) that would give Bette major acclaim from the film critics. Following this breakthrough, Davis would go on to make 14 films over the next three years. Paternal granddaughter of Edward (1854-1905), born in the state of New Hampshire, and Eliza (née Morrell) Davis (1856-1906), born in the state of Maine. She shares the record for most consecutive nominations with, After the song "Bette Davis Eyes" became a hit single, she wrote letters to singer, While touring the talk show circuit to promote. Her first marriage, to bandleader Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr., ended in divorce; her second husband, businessman Arthur Farnsworth, died in 1943. For me, there's nothing lonelier than a turned-down toilet seat. Bette Davis’s Butternut Lodge. Paternal great granddaughter of Calvin (1827-1895), born in the state of New Hampshire, and Ann (née Matthews) Davis (1827-1889), born in the state of Maine. American actress Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts. She was voted the 10th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Her father was Harlow Morrell Davis, a lawyer. In 1952, she accepted the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role on behalf of, She is one of the many movie stars mentioned in the lyrics of. (1962), she co-starred with Joan Crawford as a former child star caring for her disabled sister. Both were born and raised in the state of Maine. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. At 50, I thought proudly, 'Here we are, half century!' Nominated for an Academy Award five years in a row, in 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943. Previously, she had said that her biggest secret was brown mascara. Throughout the rest of her career, she would portray many other strong-willed, even unlikable, women who defied society's rules. According to her August 1982 Playboy magazine interview, in her youth she posed nude for an artist, who carved a statue of her that was placed in a public spot in Boston, MA. She admitted her career always came first.She made many successful films in the 1940s, but each picture was weaker than the last and by the time her Warner Brothers contract had ended in 1949, she had been reduced to appearing in such films as the unintentionally hilarious Beyond the Forest (1949). She refused to do the TV series and suffered a stroke during this time.Her last marriage, to actor Gary Merrill, lasted ten years, longer than any of the previous three. Pictured on a 42¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 18 September 2008.

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