Bette Davis

Bette Davis

Born 05/04/1908 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Died 06/10/1989 (81 years old) Neuilly, France

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"Did I ever try to be low-key? Never, never, never! I fought that from the beginning. I think that acting should be larger than life." Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908, in Lowell Massachusetts, to Ruth (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis. When she was 7 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… (more)

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All About Eve (1950)

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Actress

Movies
2007

P.S. I Love You - a.f.

1989

Wicked Stepmother

1987

The Whales of August

1986

As Summers Die (TV movie)

1985

Murder with Mirrors (TV movie)

1983

Right of Way (TV movie)

1982

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (TV movie)

 

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - a.f.

 

Little Gloria... Happy at Last (TV movie)

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1981

Family Reunion (TV movie)

1980

Skyward (TV movie)

 

The Watcher in the Woods

 

White Mama (TV movie)

1979

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (TV movie)

1978

Death on the Nile

 

Return from Witch Mountain

 

The Children of Sanchez

1976

Burnt Offerings

 

The Disappearance of Aimee (TV movie)

1973

Scream, Pretty Peggy (TV movie)

1972

Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (TV movie)

 

Madame Sin

 

The Judge and Jake Wyler (TV movie)

 

The Scientific Cardplayer

1971

Bunny O'Hare

1970

Connecting Rooms

1968

The Anniversary

1965

The Nanny

1964

Dead Ringer

 

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

 

Where Love Has Gone

1963

The Empty Canvas

1962

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1961

Pocketful of Miracles

1959

John Paul Jones

 

The Scapegoat

1956

Storm Center

 

The Catered Affair

1955

The Virgin Queen

1952

Phone Call from a Stranger

 

The Star

1951

Another Man's Poison

 

Payment on Demand

1950

All About Eve

1949

Beyond the Forest

1948

June Bride

 

Winter Meeting

1946

A Stolen Life

 

Deception

1945

The Corn Is Green

1944

Hollywood Canteen

 

Mr. Skeffington

1943

Old Acquaintance

 

Thank Your Lucky Stars

 

Watch on the Rhine

1942

In This Our Life

 

Now, Voyager

 

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941

Shining Victory

 

The Bride Came C.O.D.

 

The Great Lie

 

The Little Foxes

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

 

The Letter

1939

Dark Victory

 

Juarez

 

The Old Maid

 

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1938

Jezebel

 

The Sisters

1937

It's Love I'm After

 

Kid Galahad

 

Marked Woman

 

That Certain Woman

1936

Satan Met a Lady

 

The Golden Arrow

 

The Petrified Forest

1935

Bordertown

 

Dangerous

 

Front Page Woman

 

Special Agent

 

The Girl from 10th Avenue

1934

Fashions of 1934

 

Fog Over Frisco

 

Housewife

 

Jimmy the Gent

 

Of Human Bondage

 

The Big Shakedown

1933

Bureau of Missing Persons

 

Ex-Lady

 

Parachute Jumper

 

The Working Man

1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

 

Hell's House

 

So Big!

 

The Cabin in the Cotton

 

The Dark Horse

 

The Man Who Played God

 

The Menace

 

The Rich Are Always with Us

 

Three on a Match

1931

Seed

 

The Bad Sister

 

Waterloo Bridge

 

Way Back Home

Series
1983

Hotel

 

Hotel (S01E01)

1978

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

1968

It Takes a Thief

1962

The Virginian

 

The Accomplice (S01E13)

1959

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

 

Out There - Darkness (S04E16)

 

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1957

Perry Mason

 

Suspicion

 

Wagon Train

1956

Telephone Time

1955

Gunsmoke

 

The 20th Century-Fox Hour

1954

Studio 57

1953

General Electric Theater

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Documentaries
2021

Morceaux de Cannes (TV movie) - a.f.

2017

The Fabulous Allan Carr - a.f.

2015

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn - a.f.

 

Listen to Me Marlon - a.f.

2014

El último adiós de Bette Davis - a.f.

2011

Stars of the Silver Screen (series) - a.f.

 

Bette Davis - a.f. (S01E10)

2009

Hollywood Rivals (series)

 

Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis - a.f.

2007

Never Apologize

2006

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (TV movie) - a.f.

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn (TV movie) - a.f.

2003

Bette Davis and William Wyler (TV movie) - a.f.

 

Christmas from Hollywood - a.f.

 

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second - a.f.

2001

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

1997

Great Romances of the 20th Century (series) - a.f.

 

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender - a.f.

1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV movie)

1994

All About Bette (TV movie)

1991

O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu

1989

Bloopers Galore - a.f.

1988

Entertaining the Troops - a.f.

 

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (TV movie)

1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! (TV movie)

 

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

Directed by William Wyler

 

Super Duper Bloopers and Silly Shorts - a.f.

1985

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers - a.f.

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1983

Bette Davis - A Basically Benevolent Volcano (TV movie)

1982

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (TV movie)

 

Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! - a.f.

 

Showbiz Goes to War (TV movie) - a.f.

 

Étoiles et toiles (series)

1980

Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (TV movie)

1979

The Horror Show - a.f.

1978

Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (TV movie) - a.f.

1967

Think Twentieth

1965

Hollywood My Home Town - a.f.

 

The Love Goddesses

1963

Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV movie) - a.f.

1943

Show Business at War

 

The Voice That Thrilled the World - a.f.

1941

Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1

1939

Land of Liberty

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

 

For Auld Lang Syne

 

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 5

1937

Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 8

1936

Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1

1935

A Dream Comes True

1933

The 42nd. Street Special

Short
1985

The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue - a.f.

1965

The Decorator (TV movie)

1955

When the Talkies Were Young - a.f.

1943

The Present with a Future

1937

A Day at Santa Anita

1933

Just Around the Corner

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