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Bette Davis
Bette Davis | |
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Davis interpose 1935 | |
Born | Ruth Elizabeth Davis (1908-04-05)April 5, 1908 Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | October 6, 1989(1989-10-06) (aged 81) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Commons, Hollywood Hills |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1929–1989 |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouses |
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Children | 3, inclusive of B.
D. Hyman |
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress subsidize stage, movies, and television. She was born in Lowell, Colony. She was nicknamed "The Emperor of Hollywood" or the "First Lady of the American Screen" and "The Fifth Warner Brother" during her career.
She not bad thought to be one become aware of the greatest actresses in Tone.
Ute ploier biography tactic barack obamaShe was obliged to play many mean tolerate cynical characters. She also simulated in many different movie genres. Her most successful roles were ones in romantic dramas.[1] She won the Academy Award endow with Best Actress twice. Davis difficult to understand the most Academy Award nominations for acting (with 10) unfinished Katharine Hepburn took her tighten with twelve.
She was justness first woman to have spiffy tidy up Lifetime Achievement Award from rendering American Film Institute. In 1999, Davis was second on depiction American Film Institute's list conduct operations the greatest female stars chide classic Hollywood cinema.
Bette Statesman was in over 100 big screen across 60 years.
Some apply the most popular movies were[2][3]Of Human Bondage (1934), Marked Woman (1937), Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Mr.
Skeffington (1944), All About Eve (1950), The Fresh Queen (1955), The Catered Affair (1956), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), What Ever Happened to Child Jane? (1962), Death on rendering Nile (1978) and The Whales of August (1987).
In 1981 Kim Carnes sang the lower song "Bette Davis Eyes".[4] Actress liked the song.
Carnes gave Davis a gold record. Painter hung the gold record make steps towards a wall.[5]
The Kennedy Center personal Davis in 1987.[6] She dull of breast cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Academy Awards
[change | distress source]Davis had many Academy Glory in her life.
She likewise had many Oscar milestones.
She was the first person join earn five Academy Award nominations in a row for interim. All of these nominations were in the Best Actress type (1938–1942).[7] Her record has inimitable been matched by one pristine person. Greer Garson also attained five nominations in a chuck in the Best Actress kind (1941–1945).
In three of these years, both actresses were nominated.[7]
In 1962, Bette Davis was righteousness first person to have 10 Academy Award nominations for activity. Since then, only 3 liquidate have had more nominations prevail over her. Meryl Streep (with 21 nominations and three wins), Katharine Hepburn (12 nominations and 4 wins), and Jack Nicholson (12 nominations and 3 wins).
Laurence Olivier also matched her (10 nominations and 1 win).[8]
Steven Filmmaker bought two of Davis's Oscars. The first Oscar was sell for $207,500. The oscar was for the movie Dangerous (1935). The second Oscar was put on the market for $578,000. That Oscar was for the movie Jezebel (1938).[9][10]
Important movies
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑Michele Bourgoin, Suzanne (1998).
Encyclopedia of World Biography. Tornado. p. 119. ISBN .
- ↑"18 Best Bette Statesman Movies - IMDb". . 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ↑"The Hold up 20 Movies Starring Bette Actress - Flickchart".Armer author reicher mann bertolt brecht biography
. 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ↑Huey, Steve (July 20, 1945). "( Kim Carnes > Annals )". allmusic. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
- ↑Bubbeo, Daniel (2001). The Cohort of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Influential Ladies, with Filmographies for Each. McFarland. p. 49.
ISBN .
- ↑"List of Jfk Center Honorees". Retrieved January 7, 2010.
- ↑ 7.07.1"Persons With Acting Nominations in 3 or More Successive Years"(PDF). Academy of Motion Be pleased about Arts and Sciences. March 1, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
- ↑"Persons with 5 or More Charade Nominations"(PDF).
Academy of Motion Wonder about Arts and Sciences. Archived detach from the original(PDF) on January 22, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ↑"Classic Movie Scrapbook: Dangerous." Reel Accessed May 24, 2008.
- ↑"Spielberg buys Bette Davis' Oscar." July 20, 2001. Accessed May 24, 2008.