All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb, 1775 – 1834
Bette Davis biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Bette Davis

Author Name:

Bette Davis

Born As:

Ruth Elizabeth Davis

Other Names:

Born:

5 Apr 1908

Died:

6 Aug 1989




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Actress                          
Selected Works:

Of Human Bondage - 1934
Dangerous - 1935
The Petrified Forest - 1936
Marked Woman - 1937
Jezebel - 1938
Dark Victory - 1939
The Old Maid - 1939
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex - 1939
All This, and Heaven Too - 1940
The Letter - 1940
The Little Foxes - 1941
The Great Lie - 1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner - 1942
In This Our Life - 1942
Now, Voyager - 1942
Watch on the Rhine - 1943
Mr. Skeffington - 1944
A Stolen Life - 1946
All About Eve - 1950
The Star - 1952
Pocketful of Miracles - 1961
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 1962
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte - 1964
Dead Ringer - 1964
The Nanny - 1965
Burnt Offerings - 1976
Death on the Nile - 1978
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter - 1979
The Whales of August - 1987                          
Mother Ruth Augusta - née Favor
Father Harlow Morrell Davis- two children, sister Barbara.

First husband - Harmon Nelson - 1932 - 1938
second husband - Arthur Farnsworth - 1940 - 1943
Third husband - William Grant Sherry - 1945 - 1950 - one daughter
Fourth husband - Gary Merrill - 1950 –1960 - three children.                          
First female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The first actor to receive ten Academy Award nominations and the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Bette Davis' performance in Of Human Bondage - 1934, was widely acclaimed and when she was not nominated for an Academy Award, several influential people mounted a campaign to have her name included. 

The Academy relaxed its rules for that year only to allow for the consideration of any performer nominated in a write-in vote. Therefore any performance of the year was technically eligible for consideration. Given the well-publicized hoopla, some sources still consider this as a nomination for Davis; however, the Academy does not officially record this as a nomination.                          
Steven Spielberg purchased Davis's Oscars for Dangerous - 1935 and Jezebel - 1938 when they were offered for auction, and returned them to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Bette Davis became the first woman to secure 10 nominations for the Best Actress Oscar, and in the intervening years, only Katharine Hepburn and Meryl Streep have surpassed this figure.