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Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Bette’s father left the family when she was 10 years old. Her mother had very little money, but she sent Bette and her sister, Barbara, to boarding school. When Bette graduated from Cushing Academy, she enrolled at John Murray Anderson’s Dramatic School, where she became a star pupil.
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Bette Davis was a noted American film and television actress and had some excellent stage performances. She was born in the year 1908 as Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts. She has won the Academy Awards twice in the years 1935 and 1938 respectively for the films ‘ Dangerous’ and ‘Jezebel’ She breathed her last at the age of 81 in Neuilly, France in the year 1989
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The daughter of a Massachusetts lawyer, American actress Bette Davis matured with a desire to become an actress upon her graduation from Cushing Academy, but was turned away from Eva LeGallienne's Manhattan Civic Repertory in New York. Undaunted, Davis enrolled in John Murray Anderson's Dramatic...Read More
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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas.
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Bette ... won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1939 for the previous year's "Jezebel". It was Warner Brother's answer to "Gone With the Wind", which was feverishly beginning production in 1938. Julie (Bette) is a flirtatious young Southern girl who does whatever she wants, no matter how her beau, Pres (Henry Fonda) feels about the situations. But he gets even by marrying someone else! The classic film also stars Donald Crisp and George Brent, who would also star with Bette in many other movies.
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Bette Davis was a strong-willed, independent personality and a unique, powerful star with large eyes, clipped New England diction, and distinctive mannerisms--including extravagant cigarette smoking--that engendered frequent imitation. She made some 100 films, for which she received 10 Academy Award nominations, and twice won the Best Actress trophy.Davis' parents divorced when she was seven and she was raised by her mother, who encouraged her interest in acting by taking her to New York in 1928.
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