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AKA:
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Birthplace:
Lowell, Massachusetts
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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. Rejected for Eva Le Gallienne's acting classes, Davis joined a stock company in Rochester, NY,
Fanny" Beatrice Trellis Skeffington
1944
Regina Hubbard Giddens
1941
Kate Bosworth/Pat Bosworth
Henriette Deluzy Desportes
1928
Stage debut with Provincetown Players
1929
Broadway debut in "Broken Dishes"
1931
Film acting debut in "The Bad Sister"
1934
Lobbied for home studio Warner Brothers to lend her to RKO for the breakthrough role of Mildred in "Of Human Bondage", an adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel
1936
Became involved in court case with Warner Brothers because she protested the poor roles she had been given and traveled to England, making a preliminary commitment to act in a British film; eventually lost the case
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