Bette Davis Movies And Biography

Bette Davis is one of those famous Hollywood actresses famous during the film capitol’s golden age, and still widely discussed today. Also a talented stage actress that appeared in a number of Broadway productions, she was known for her flamboyant character in life and while performing. Some of her most famous movies include ‘Dangerous’ (1935), ‘Jezebel’ (1938), ‘Now, Voyager’ (1942), and ‘The Star’ (1952). She was nominated for Oscars 11 times, and won two.

Imagine, Bette Davis thought she was unattractive—an attitude certainly not held by her millions of fans through the years. Such interesting information is added to the many details about Bette Davis, her acting career, and her life. Here are a few more fascinating facts about, as one fan calls her, the “incomparable” Bette Davis.

One of the most esteemed and most often impersonated Hollywood legends, Bette appeared in 103 films and television movies and shows and made guest appearances in over 50 shows. Between 1934 and 1962, Bette was nominated nine times for Academy Awards, and won two—the Best Actress Award for her role as a drunken performer in the 1935 movie, Dangerous, and another Best Actress Award for her primadonna “headstrong” character in Jezebel (1938).

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born on April 5th, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts to parents Harlow Davis and Ruth Favor. When she was ten years old, her father left Betty and her sister Barbara to be raised solely by their mother, and her early life was marked with financial struggle. Following her mother’s dream to be an actress, Betty enrolled in John Murray Anderson’s school of drama where she immediately excelled.

When the American Film Institute (which honored Bette with the first Lifetime Achievement Award to a woman) announced its list of top 100 movie lines (in June of 2005), Bette Davis took second place, quoted for her lines “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” [number 9 on the list]; “Oh Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” [number 46]; and “What a dump.” [number 62]—from All about Eve; Now, Voyager; and Beyond the Forest, respectively.

Kim Carnes scratched out a stunning song abut Bette, called “Bette Davis Eyes,” written by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon. Upon hearing the song, being impressed with the amount of information about her life in it, and having her grandson thrilled that he now had a “cool” grandmother—because she had a song written in her honor—Bette wrote to DeShannon and Weiss, thanking them.

Betty’s first professional performance was in the Off-Broadway stage production of ‘The Earth Between’ in 1923. She appeared on Broadway in ‘Broken Dishes’ and ‘Solid South’ in 1929. She signed on with Warner Brothers and starred in ‘The Man Who Played God’ and several other movies that were only moderately successful. When she starred in ‘Of Human Bondage’ in 1934 she garnered more attention and critical acclaim. It wasn’t until her leading role in ‘Dangerous’ in 1935 that she would become a star. She won the Oscar for best actress for her performance in ‘Dangerous’, and won another one three years later for ‘Jezebel’. That period in the later 1930’s is considered by many to be the peak of her career.

Her career continued to blossom in the early 1940s, with her roles in the movies ‘The Letter’ (1940), ‘The Little Foxes’ (1941), ‘Now, Voyager’ (1942), and ‘Mr. Skeffington’ (1944) all receiving critical acclaim. After a short decline in her career, Davis starred in the 1950 movie ‘All About Eve’, which did very well in the box office. Unfortunately, the rest of the movies she appeared in that decade failed to meet the same success. Her next and final success came with the 1962 movie ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’, where she starred alongside Joan Crawford. She would appear in several other movies in her life, but none met with the success of her early pictures.

Though her movie career was all but over, Bette Davis had firmly established herself as a Hollywood icon and was still idolized all around the world. She won the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1977, the first woman to ever receive the honor. After a long and painful struggle with breast cancer, Davis passed away on October 6th, 1989.

Bette was for many years cast in roles she found unacceptable. When the casting continued to displease her, she took off to England—until Jack Warner (of Warner Bros.) sued her for breach of contract. She was forced to return to honor the remainder of her contract, but at the same time, began getting much finer roles.

Bette Davis married four times, bore one child and adopted two more, and wrote three books, autobiographies that lean on each other as chronologies and/or updates of each other.

And Bette Davis had her rivalries—specifically those with fellow star, Joan Crawford. Behind the scenes of the filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, for instance, Bette so disliked Joan (then widow to Pepsi Cola president and CEO Alfred Steele) that she commissioned a Coca Cola machine to be brought to the set. In turn, Joan, also at odds with Bette, weighted her pockets for scenes in which Bette’s character had to lift and drag Joan’s.

If you have seen …Baby Jane, you have seen that beyond the stunning performance was a palatable disdain that fed or carried the character acting. And if you have seen any of Bette’s other films, you have seen the best in pain, repression, suppression, elation, and liberation…in Bette Davis’ acting and, yes, in Bette Davis’ eyes.

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