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Davis, Bette



The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 9/9/2005

Davis, Bette

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

DAVIS, BETTE [Davis, Bette] , 1908-89, American film actress, b. Lowell, Mass., as Ruth Elizabeth Davis. One of the most durable stars of the American screen, she made her debut in 1931. With compelling and distinctive features, she was difficult to promote as a romantic figure. Her successful early roles included Of Human Bondage (1934) and Dangerous (1935), for which she won an Academy Award. Frustrated at the lack of better roles, she broke her contract with Warner Brothers and lost a subsequent court case in which the standard seven-year contract binding a performer to one studio was upheld. But Davis found her niche as the troubled woman in search of romance in such films as Jezebel (1938), for which she won another Academy Award, and The Little Foxes (1941). When her popularity began to decline in the 1950s, she responded by accepting offbeat, even bizarre, roles in The Catered Affair (1955) and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1961). With fellow screen legend Lillian Gish , she gave a graceful valedictory performance in The Whales of August (1987).

Bibliography: See her autobiography (1962); biography by J. Vermilye (1972).



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