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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (/ ˈ b ɛ t i /; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and ...
1908-1929: primeros años. 1930-1936: comienzos en Hollywood. Películas iniciales. Consagración artística. Problemas legales. 1937-1941: éxito con Warner Bros. 1942-1944: esfuerzo de guerra y tragedia personal. 1945-1949: reveses profesionales. 1949-1960: carrera independiente. 1961-1970: éxito renovado. 1971-1983: carrera posterior.
- Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Bette Davis. Actress: All About Eve. Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance.
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- Who Was Bette Davis?
- Early Life
- Broadway Debut and Early Film Career
- Career Highlights
- Later Work
- Personal Life
American actress Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts. After a brief theater career, she became one of the biggest stars in the Hollywood studio system, appearing in nearly 100 films before her death in 1989. Davis is still considered an icon for her performances in such films as All About Eve and Dark Victory, as well as...
Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908, in Lowell Massachusetts, to Ruth (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis. When she was seven years old, her father divorced her mother, who was left to raise Bette and younger daughter Barbara on her own. As a teen, Davis began acting in school productions at the Cushing Academy in Massachusetts. After...
Davis began to audition for theater parts in New York, and in 1929 she made her stage début at Greenwich Village's Provincetown Playhouse in The Earth Between. Later that year, at the age of 21, she made her first Broadway appearance in the comedy Broken Dishes. A screen test landed Davis a contract with Hollywood's Universal Pictures, where she wa...
In 1934, Warner Brothers loaned Davis to RKO Pictures for Of Human Bondage, a drama based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Davis received her first Academy Award nomination for her performance as the vulgar, cold-hearted waitress Mildred. Throughout the rest of her career, she would portray many other strong-willed, even unlikable, women who defi...
Davis depicted Elizabeth I again in The Virgin Queen (1955) and appeared in Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana on Broadway in 1961. Some of her other work during this time was more lurid, however. In the horror movie (and camp classic) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), she co-starred with Joan Crawford as a former child star caring...
Davis married four times. Her first marriage, to bandleader Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr., ended in divorce; her second husband, businessman Arthur Farnsworth, died in 1943. With third husband William Grant Sherry, Davis had a daughter named Barbara. While married to Gary Merrill, her co-star in All About Eve, she adopted two children, Margot and Michael...
Bette Davis. Actress: All About Eve. Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother.
- April 5, 1908
- October 6, 1989
Altura: 1,6 m. Bette Davis nació el 5 de abril de 1908 en Lowell, Massachusetts, en una familia de clase media. Padres. Hija de Ruth Augusta y Harlow Morrell Davis, un abogado. Pasó una infancia difícil, que discurrió bajo la sombra del divorcio de sus padres. Se empeñó en ser actriz después de ver a Peg Entwistle en El pato salvaje de Ibsen.
29 de jul. de 2021 · Of course Davis’s performance is colossally exaggerated and mad, and her wide-eyed ingénue of old has become an eye-rolling monster. But it’s a compelling, bizarre spectacle – and a classic...
