"City, in a stage presentation, ""Great Ladies of the American Cinema"". Over five successive nights, a different female star discussed her career, and answered questions from the audience; Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Lana Turner, Sylvia Sidney, and Joan Crawford were the other participants. Davis was well received, and was invited to tour Australia with the similarly themed ""Bette Davis in Person and on Film""; its success allowed her to take the production to the United Kingdom. In 1972, Davis played the lead role in two television films that were each intended as pilots for upcoming series for ABC and NBC,"
"Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth ""Bette"" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. With a career spanning 60 years, she is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films, suspense horror, and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in the summer of 1930. However,"
"getters in each category, Davis placed third for best actress above the officially nominated Grace Moore. The academy's nomination and winner database notes this under the 1934 best actress category and under the Bette Davis search. Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth ""Bette"" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. With a career spanning 60 years, she is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime"
"the ass"", but added that he had ""never known an actress to take work as seriously as she does. I tell you, she is a maniac."" Bette Davis described Dunaway as the worst person she had ever worked with in an interview with Johnny Carson in 1988, calling her ""totally impossible"", ""uncooperative', and ""very unprofessional"". Dunaway denied Davis' claims in her autobiography, writing ""Watching her, all I could think of was that she seemed like someone caught in a death throe, a final scream against a fate over which no one has control. I was just the target of her"
"Bette Davis, notorious for refusing to bow to the studio bosses, were two of the biggest Hollywood stars of their time. Their rivalry exploded during their work together on the horror film ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" and became a public feud that lasted the rest of their lives. Based on interviews the author conducted with both actresses and more than a decade of research, the book shows the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, and fading stars at their best and worst. The Crawford-Davis rivalry is the inspiration for the 2017 Ryan Murphy TV series ""Feud."" Crawford is played by Jessica Lange"
"career. In 1926 she had a supporting role in ""A Punch in the Nose"", which was her only credited role. She would have two uncredited roles in 1928, and received only bit parts afterward, but struggled to stay in the business for some time. She was married to theater manager, Louis Golden, but filed for divorce in 1932. She remained in the Los Angeles area, and died August 4, 1966, aged 56. Betty Arlen Betty (Bette) Arlen (November 4, 1909 – August 4, 1966) was an American actress best known for her being selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star in"
"Bette Katzenkazrahi Bette Katzenkazrahi (nee Douglas; formerly Duke, Lakin, Goodman, Kennedy, and Davis) is a fictional character from the US NBC soap opera ""Sunset Beach"", played by Kathleen Noone. Noone was cast into the role after previously appearing on daytime television for a number of years appearing in rival soap opera ""All My Children"". Noone signed a new contract with the serial in August 1999, she also incorrectly predicted that ""Sunset Beach"" would not be axed by NBC. During the entire run, Bette was a much beloved person. Although she always knew the newest gossip and eventually ended up hired"
"Addams, Ron Jeremy, Tera Patrick, Tanya Tate, Priya Anjali Rai, Jessica Drake, Steven St. Croix, Danny Wylde, and James Deen. Tate was quoted in a San Fernando Valley Business Journal article to the effect that she would want whomever she decided to have sex with ""to get tested until I felt comfortable to sleep with them without a condom,"" adding that AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein (who the article was about), ""should be spending money on treating [AIDS] and educating regular people about how to protect themselves instead of going after a small community that is aware of the"
"categories]], ""Sunset Boulevard"" is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being ""[[My Man Godfrey]]"" (1936) and ""[[American Hustle]]"" (2013). At the time its eleven Oscar nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen received by ""[[All About Eve]]"", which won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or [[Bette Davis]] for ""All About Eve"" and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer [[Judy Holliday]] for ""[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]""""."" Bette Davis believed that her and Swanson's comparable characters effectively"
"admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and three times divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 film, television, and theater roles to her credit during her six-decade-long career. In 1999, Davis was placed second behind Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Ruth Elizabeth Davis,"
"any performance he has given before the camera. No more expert illustration of getting under the skin of the character has been done in motion pictures,"" and he described Bette Davis as ""enormously effective."" Also that year, a reviewer in ""Life"" magazine called Bette Davis' performance the greatest ever recorded on screen by an actress. Davis, however, failed to earn a Best Actress nomination for an Academy Award with only three nominees (Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, and Grace Moore) making the final cut. A loud faction heralding Davis' performance ended up with the Academy allowing ""write in"" votes in addition"
"Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. She married director William Keighley in 1938 and made only a few more films; her final film before retirement was ""No Time for Comedy"" (1940), with James Stewart and Rosalind Russell. She remained married to Keighley until his death in 1984. Genevieve Tobin Genevieve Tobin (November 29, 1899 – July 31, 1995) was an American actress. Tobin was born in New York City on November 29, 1899. Her father, Thomas Tobin, a bank clerk who later became a racetrack bookmaker, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and her mother, Genevieve, was born in Washington, D.C."
"most notable film role was likely in ""The Star"" (1952) starring Bette Davis. Travis became known as the Queen of the B-movies on the Warner Bros. lot. Later, she said that if she had remained in Hollywood two more years, she would have been a star. However, following three years, she came home to Chicago for Christmas with her parents. She did not return to making motion pictures. Travis stopped regularly appearing in films after 1938, though she made minor appearances in ""The Star"" and ""Monster a Go-Go"". Travis played Stormy Wilson Curtis in the radio soap opera ""Girl Alone"""
"Miriam Hopkins Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an American actress known for her versatility. She first signed with Paramount Pictures in 1930, working with Ernst Lubitsch and Joel McCrea, among many others. Her long-running feud with Bette Davis was publicized for effect. Later, she became a pioneer of TV drama. Hopkins was a distinguished Hollywood hostess, who moved in intellectual and creative circles. Hopkins was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Homer Hopkins and Ellen Cutler and raised in Bainbridge, near the Alabama border. She had an older sister, Ruby (1900-1990). Her maternal great-grandfather, the"
"film ""As Summers Die"" (1986), and in Lindsay Anderson's film ""The Whales of August"" (1987), in which she played the blind sister of Lillian Gish. Though in poor health at the time, Davis memorized her own and everyone else's lines, as she always had. The film earned good reviews, with one critic writing: ""Bette crawls across the screen like a testy old hornet on a windowpane, snarling, staggering, twitching - a symphony of misfired synapses."" Davis became an honouree of the Kennedy Center Honors for her contribution to films in 1987. Her last performance was the title role in Larry"
"Viola Davis, Gal Gadot, Mariska Hargitay, Katherine Heigl, Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Mindy Kaling, Anna Kendrick, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Lawrence, Blake Lively, Jennifer Lopez, Melissa McCarthy, Eva Mendes, Julianne Moore, Elisabeth Moss, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Amy Poehler, Rihanna, Julia Roberts, Margot Robbie, Zoe Saldana, Hailee Steinfeld, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Emma Watson, Rebel Wilson, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. Leading lady Leading lady is a term often applied to the leading actress in the performance if her character is the protagonist. It is also an informal term for the actress who plays a secondary lead,"
"Bette Davis (played by Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, respectively). Dominic Patten of ""Deadline Hollywood"" found Zeta-Jones to be ""wonderfully cast"" and Sonia Saraiya of ""Variety"" praised her for providing ""the best turn in the show"". Displeased with an ""unauthorized use of her name and identity"" in the series, de Havilland, at 101 years old, sued the network and producers of ""Feud"" for invasion of privacy and other personality rights. The lawsuit was later dismissed by a California appellate court. In 2018, Zeta-Jones starred as the drug lord Griselda Blanco in the Lifetime television film ""Cocaine Godmother"". Despite her character's"
"I Kissed Your Tears Away"" (1911), ""Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall"" (1911), ""When I Met You Last Night in Dreamland"" (1912), ""In the Palace of Dreams"" (1914), and ""Araby"" (1915). For many years she edited the gossip column in the ""Los Angeles Examiner"". Davies died on April 5, 1938, in Beverly Hills, California, from a heart attack in the swimming pool. She was buried with a Requiem Mass at St. Augustine's Church in Culver City, California, and interred in the Douras Mausoleum in what is now Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Reine Davies Reine Davies (June 6, 1883 – April 5,"
"to IMDb is around 104 appearances. She appeared in five episodes of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" in the role of Gladys Flatt, the unlikely glamorous wife of bluegrass musician Lester Flatt. She named Ozzie Nelson as possessing the greatest sex appeal of any actor with whom she worked. The two played a love scene in a ""Fireside Theater"" drama. Lansing has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, for her contributions to television. Lansing died from breast cancer on August 7, 1972, at St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, California. She had been treated surgically for the disease"
"Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at the age of 55. The cause of death listed on her death certificate was cirrhosis of the liver due to alcohol, which caused acute gastrointestinal bleeding, cardiogenic shock, and cardiac arrest. Elizabeth Peña Elizabeth Maria Peña (September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014) was an American actress known for her work in films including ""Nothing like the Holidays"", ""Batteries Not Included"", ""La Bamba"", ""Down and Out in Beverly Hills"", ""Jacob's Ladder"", ""Rush Hour"", ""The Incredibles,"" and ""Lone Star"""","" for which she won the 1996 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and"
"of the film, was impressed with Haller’s work on ""Jezebel"" that he replaced the former cinematographer Lee Garmes, who left the production after a month of shooting due to creative differences. Haller’s work earned him his first and only Academy Awards along with the Technicolor Associates Ray Rennahan and Wilfred M. Cline. The film was a success, also winning awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Supporting Actress. Working closely with Bette Davis and earning two nominations for photographing her in ""Jezebel"" and ""All This, and Heaven Too"", Haller also developed a strong relationship with Joan Crawford. He"
"of these frequent collaborators appear in the same movies or as ensemble casts. Russell said ""People ask me why I collaborate with [Jennifer Lawrence] so much, or Robert De Niro or Bradley Cooper. My first answer would be this: Bette Davis collaborated with William Wyler on five films. Katharine Hepburn and George Cukor collaborated on seven films. Katharine Hepburn collaborated with George Stevens on three films. Scorsese with Robert De Niro, eight films. I think DiCaprio is up about six. If you're friends with somebody and you happen to like and respect each other, you can inspire each other,"" in"
"many studio employees. Comedian Jack Benny, who once worked at Warner Bros., quipped, ""Jack Warner would rather tell a bad joke than make a good movie"". Warner frequently clashed with actors and supposedly banned them from the studio's executive dining room, with the explanation, ""I don't need to look at actors when I eat."" The studio executive did, however, win the affection of a few film personalities. Among these was Bette Davis, one of the studio's leading stars, who once fled to England to secure release from her contract. In later years, Davis defended Warner against rumors of sexual impropriety"
"an Academy Award. She retained a cult status throughout the remainder of her career, and appeared in several other thriller films, such as ""Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"" (1964) and ""The Nanny"" (1965). She also appeared on television later in her career. Davis agreed to star in the spoof film ""Wicked Stepmother"" (1989), although she felt the script was poor. The film was marked with production problems from the beginning, with Davis often quarreling with director Larry Cohen, and she withdrew from the film shortly after production began. After 58 years of acting, it became her final film appearance. Bette Davis filmography"
"in Los Angeles, alongside her mother Ruthie and sister Bobby, with her name in larger type size. On her tombstone is written: ""She did it the hard way"", an epitaph that she mentioned in her memoir ""Mother Goddam"" as having been suggested to her by Joseph L. Mankiewicz shortly after they had filmed ""All About Eve"". As early as 1936, Graham Greene summed Davis up: Even the most inconsiderable film ... seemed temporarily better than they were because of that precise, nervy voice, the pale ash-blond hair, the popping, neurotic eyes, a kind of corrupt and phosphorescent prettiness ... I"
"In 1998, for her portrayal of Bette, Noone was nominated in the category of ""Female Scene Stealer"" at the ""Soap Opera Digest"" Awards. Bette Katzenkazrahi Bette Katzenkazrahi (nee Douglas; formerly Duke, Lakin, Goodman, Kennedy, and Davis) is a fictional character from the US NBC soap opera ""Sunset Beach"", played by Kathleen Noone. Noone was cast into the role after previously appearing on daytime television for a number of years appearing in rival soap opera ""All My Children"". Noone signed a new contract with the serial in August 1999, she also incorrectly predicted that ""Sunset Beach"" would not be axed by"
"days after her co-star Harold Lloyd. Her remains were cremated at London's Golders Green Crematorium and the ashes returned to the United States; she was interred at the Chapel Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Upon his death in 1979, Ben Lyon's remains were interred next to Daniels'. A biography ""Bebe and Ben"" was written by Jill Allgood, a personal friend who worked with them at the BBC. Bebe Daniels Phyllis Virginia ""Bebe"" Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era"
"dentist. In her autobiography, Van Doren acknowledged numerous affairs with celebrities. These include Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley, Burt Reynolds, Jack Dempsey, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Rivers, Robert Evans, Eddie Fisher, Warren Beatty, Tony Curtis, Steve Cochran and Joe Namath. Claiming fidelity to each lover, she said about Hollywood life, ""I don't wear panties anymore - this startles the Hollywood wolves so much they don't know what to pull at, so they leave me alone."" She posed twice for ""Playboy"" in 1963 to promote her movie ""3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt"" (1964), though she"
"Meryl Streep. Davis received Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award nominations for the same performance. In 2012, ""Time"" magazine listed Davis as one of the most influential people in the world. Also in 2012, ""Glamour"" magazine named Davis Glamour's Film Actress of the year. On June 12, 2012, Davis was presented with the Women in Film's Crystal Award by her friend and Oscar rival that year, Meryl Streep. On June 25, 2012, the Walk of Fame Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced that Davis was part of the new group of entertainment professionals who have been selected to"
"contract were two clauses: the first being that she receive a guest pass to The Beverly Hills Hotel where she could swim in the pool every day, and the second that she would not appear on camera for nine months to allow for acting, singing, dancing, and diction lessons. Williams wrote in her autobiography, ""If it took nine months for a baby to be born, I figured my 'birth' from Esther Williams the swimmer to Esther Williams the movie actress would not be much different."" While top stars at the studios such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, and Shirley Temple"
"had the range, nerve, and instinct that only Bette Davis had had before – and like Davis, Taylor was monster and empress, sweetheart and scold, idiot and wise woman"". Three films in which she starred – ""National Velvet"", ""Giant"", and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" – have been preserved in the National Film Registry, and the American Film Institute has named her the seventh greatest female screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema. Taylor has also been discussed by journalists and scholars interested in the role of women in Western society. Camille Paglia writes that Taylor was a ""pre-feminist woman"" who"
"more than a few weeks."" Meg notes her relationship with ""Sesame Street"" character Count von Count, who only left her after discovering she had at least three nipples. Before Lois prepares to undergo ""in vitro"" fertilization, Dr. Hartman shows her several photos of babies conceived by celebrity couples, including actress Shelley Duvall and singer-songwriter James Blunt; actress Hilary Swank and actor Gary Busey; Olympic medalist Florence Griffith-Joyner and physicist Stephen Hawking; and actress, writer and comedian Tina Fey and actor Joaquin Phoenix. Beginning the procedure, Lois objects to Dr. Hartman's method of embryonic insertion. In response, he replies, ""Well, perhaps"
"of the thirties and into the forties"", achieving notability for the variety of her characterizations and her ability to assert herself, even when her material was mediocre. Individual performances continued to receive praise; in 1987, Bill Collins analyzed ""The Letter"" (1940), and described her performance as ""a brilliant, subtle achievement"", and wrote: ""Bette Davis makes Leslie Crosbie one of the most extraordinary females in movies."" In a 2000 review for ""All About Eve"" (1950), Roger Ebert noted: ""Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style; so, even her excesses are realistic."" In 2006, ""Premiere"" magazine ranked her portrayal"