| Bette Davis  AKA Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Born: 5-Apr-1908
Birthplace: Lowell, MA
Died: 6-Oct-1989
Location of death: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Cause of death: Cancer - Breast
Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: All About Eve Husband: Harmon Nelson (m. 18-Aug-1932, div. 1939)
Husband: Arthur Farnsworth (m. 31-Dec-1940, d. 1943 accidental fall)
Husband: William Grant Sherry (m. 30-Nov-1945, div. 1950, one daughter)
Daughter: Barbara Davis Hyman (b. 1-May-1947)
Husband: Gary Merrill (actor, m. 28-Jul-1950, div. 6-Jul-1960, one son, one daughter)
Son: Michael (adopted)
Daughter: Margot (adopted)
High School: Northfield Mt. Hermon High School
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President (1941)
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
Oscar for Best Actress 1936 for Dangerous
Oscar for Best Actress 1939 for Jezebel
Emmy 1977 for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award 1978
Kennedy Center Honor 1987
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6233 Hollywood Blvd. (television)
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6225 Hollywood Blvd. (motion pictures)
Endorsement of Liggett Group Chesterfield cigarettes
Abortion
Mastectomy 1983
Stroke 1983
Risk Factors: Smoking, Breast Cancer, Alcoholism
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Wicked Stepmother (3-Feb-1989)
The Whales of August (16-Oct-1987) · Libby Strong
As Summers Die (18-May-1986)
Murder with Mirrors (20-Feb-1985)
Right of Way (21-Nov-1983)
Little Gloria: Happy at Last (24-Oct-1982)
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (3-Feb-1982)
Family Reunion (11-Oct-1981)
Skyward (20-Nov-1980)
The Watcher in the Woods (17-Apr-1980)
White Mama (5-Mar-1980)
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (13-May-1979)
Death on the Nile (30-Oct-1978) · Marie Van Schuyler
Return From Witch Mountain (10-Mar-1978)
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (23-Jan-1978)
The Disappearance of Aimee (17-Nov-1976)
Burnt Offerings (25-Aug-1976) · Aunt Elizabeth
Scream, Pretty Peggy (24-Nov-1973) · Mrs. Elliott
The Judge and Jake Wyler (2-Dec-1972)
The Scientific Cardplayer (16-Oct-1972)
Madame Sin (15-Jan-1972)
Bunny O'Hare (18-Oct-1971) · Bunny O'Hare
Connecting Rooms (1970)
The Anniversary (7-Feb-1968)
The Nanny (27-Oct-1965) · The Nanny
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (15-Dec-1964) · Charlotte
Where Love Has Gone (2-Nov-1964) · Mrs. Gerald Hayden
Dead Ringer (19-Feb-1964) · Margaret and Edith Phillips
The Empty Canvas (4-Dec-1963)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (26-Oct-1962) · Jane Hudson
Pocketful of Miracles (19-Dec-1961) · Apple Annie
The Scapegoat (6-Aug-1959) · The Countess
John Paul Jones (16-Jun-1959) · Catherine the Great
Storm Center (31-Jul-1956)
The Catered Affair (14-Jun-1956) · Mrs. Tom Hurley
The Virgin Queen (22-Jul-1955) · Queen Elizabeth I
The Star (11-Dec-1952) · Margaret Elliot
Phone Call from a Stranger (1-Feb-1952)
Another Man's Poison (6-Jan-1952) · Janet Frobisher
Payment on Demand (15-Feb-1951) · Joyce Ramsey
All About Eve (13-Oct-1950) · Margo
Beyond the Forest (21-Oct-1949) · Rosa Moline
June Bride (29-Oct-1948) · Linda Gilman
Winter Meeting (7-Apr-1948) · Susan Grieve
Deception (18-Oct-1946) · Christine Radcliffe
A Stolen Life (6-Jul-1946) · Kate Bosworth
The Corn is Green (29-Mar-1945) · Miss Lilly Moffat
Hollywood Canteen (15-Dec-1944) · Herself
Mr. Skeffington (25-May-1944) · Fanny Trellis
Old Acquaintance (2-Nov-1943) · Kitty
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1-Oct-1943) · Herself
Watch on the Rhine (27-Aug-1943) · Sara Muller
Now, Voyager (22-Oct-1942) · Charlotte Vale
In This Our Life (8-May-1942) · Stanley Timberlake
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1-Jan-1942) · Maggie Cutler
The Little Foxes (21-Aug-1941) · Regina Giddens
The Bride Came C.O.D. (12-Jul-1941)
The Great Lie (5-Apr-1941) · Maggie
The Letter (22-Nov-1940) · Leslie Crosbie
All This, and Heaven Too (4-Jul-1940) · Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (27-Sep-1939) · Queen Elizabeth
The Old Maid (16-Aug-1939) · Charlotte Lovell
Juarez (24-Apr-1939) · Carlotta
Dark Victory (20-Apr-1939) · Judith Traherne
The Sisters (14-Oct-1938) · Louise Elliott
Jezebel (10-Mar-1938) · Julie
It's Love I'm After (8-Oct-1937)
That Certain Woman (15-Sep-1937) · Mary Donnell
Kid Galahad (26-May-1937) · Fluff
Marked Woman (10-Apr-1937) · Mary
Satan Met a Lady (22-Jul-1936) · Valerie Purvis
The Golden Arrow (23-May-1936) · Daisy Appleby
The Petrified Forest (6-Feb-1936) · Gabrielle Maple
Dangerous (25-Dec-1935)
Special Agent (14-Sep-1935)
Front Page Woman (11-Jul-1935) · Ellen Garfield
The Girl from 10th Avenue (26-May-1935)
Bordertown (23-Jan-1935)
Housewife (9-Aug-1934) · Patricia Berkeley
Of Human Bondage (28-Jun-1934) · Mildred
Fog Over Frisco (2-Jun-1934) · Arlene
Jimmy the Gent (17-Mar-1934)
Fashions of 1934 (14-Feb-1934) · Lynn
The Big Shakedown (6-Jan-1934)
Bureau of Missing Persons (8-Sep-1933)
Ex-Lady (14-May-1933)
The Working Man (20-Apr-1933)
Parachute Jumper (25-Jan-1933) · Patricia Brent
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (24-Dec-1932) · Fay Wilson
Three on a Match (28-Oct-1932) · Ruth Wescott
The Cabin in the Cotton (15-Oct-1932) · Madge
The Dark Horse (8-Jun-1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (15-May-1932) · Malbro
So Big! (29-Apr-1932) · Dallas O'Mara
The Man Who Played God (10-Feb-1932)
Hell's House (30-Jan-1932) · Peggy Gardner
The Menace (29-Jan-1932)
Way Back Home (15-Jan-1932) · Mary Lucy
Waterloo Bridge (1-Sep-1931) · Janet Cronin
Seed (14-May-1931)
The Bad Sister (29-Mar-1931) · Laura Madison
Is the subject of books:
My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Candid Portrait of Her Famous Mother, 1986, BY: B. D. Hyman, DETAILS: (biography)
Author of books:
This 'n' That (1987, memoir, with Michael Herskowitz)
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