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In 1945, Davis married artist William Grant Sherry, her third husband, who also worked as a masseur. She had been drawn to him because he claimed he had never heard of her and so was not intimidated by her.
6 de ene. de 1995 · Born 7 Dec 1914 in Amagansett, Suffolk, New York, United States. Ancestors. Son of William Sherry and Marian L (Loper) Sherry. [sibling (s) unknown] Husband of Ruth Elizabeth Davis — married 30 Nov 1945 (to 1950) in Riverside, California. Husband of Marion Dolores (Richards) Sherry — married 6 Aug 1950 in Orange Co., California.
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15 de ago. de 2017 · 1945: Bette married artist William Grant Sherry on December 3, 1945. The couple had a daughter Barbara (B.D.). It was she who published ‘My Mother’s Keeper’ in 1985, a tell-all biography that painted her famous mother in possibly a worse light than Christina Crawford’s ‘Mommie Dearest’ had painted Joan!
- 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...
2 de feb. de 2023 · Davis' third husband was William Grant Sherry, an artist of little success who at 30 was seven years younger than Davis at the time of their meeting, but whom Davis admired for his dedication to his art. According to James Spada, another great attraction was the fact that Sherry apparently had no idea who the world-famous Hollywood ...
Another factor in the downturn in her career was her marriage during this period to a husky ex-Navy man named William Sherry. Sherry had a reputation as a hard-living womanizer, and Davis was warned about him, even by Sherry's own mother, who said her son was cruel.
12 de sept. de 2017 · Bette Davis, daughter B.D., and husband William Grant Sherry walk through New York’s Central Park in their Easter best in 1949. Marcie Bianco See More By Marcie Bianco »
