biography
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Davis, Bette
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popular name of Ruth Elizabeth Davis
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1908–89)
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| biography:
| Film actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. After a short stage career she went to Hollywood in 1930, and had her first success in The Man who Played God (1932). Numerous leading roles followed, among them Of Human Bondage (1934), Dangerous (1935, Oscar), and Jezebel (1938, Oscar), which established her as a major star for the next three decades. She was outstanding in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), in which she co-starred with her long-term rival, Joan Crawford. Later appearances included Death on the Nile (1979), The Whales of August (1987) opposite Lillian Gish, and many television productions. |
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