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Bette Davis

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 5th, 1908, Bette Davis was the most prolific actress of her time. She appeared in more than 80 theatrically released movies between 1931 and 1989. She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar an impressive 11 times (including an amazing 5 consecutive years), winning the coveted award twice. With her prominent eyes, distinctive, clipped speaking voice and constant cigarette smoking she became an iconic movie star for the ages. Bette Davis died on October 6th, 1989 in Neuilly, France at the age of 81.

Filmography

Waterloo Bridge 1931 · as Janet Cronin
Hell's House 1932 · as Peggy Gardner
So Big! 1932 · as Miss Dallas O'Mara
The Rich Are Always with Us 1932 · as Malbro Barclay
The Cabin in the Cotton 1932 · as Madge Norwood
Three on a Match 1932 · as Ruth Westcott
20,000 Years in Sing Sing 1932 · as Fay Wilson
Parachute Jumper 1933 · as Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
Bureau of Missing Persons 1933 · as Norma Roberts
The Big Shakedown 1934 · as Norma Nelson
Fashions of 1934 1934 · as Lynn Mason
Jimmy the Gent 1934 · as Miss Joan Martin
Fog Over Frisco 1934 · as Arlene Bradford
Of Human Bondage 1934 · as Mildred Rogers
Housewife 1934 · as Patricia Berkeley
The Girl from 10th Avenue 1935 · as Miriam A. Brady
Front Page Woman 1935 · as Ellen Garfield
Dangerous 1935 · as Joyce Heath
The Petrified Forest 1936 · as Gabrielle (Gabby) Maple
The Golden Arrow 1936 · as Daisy Appleby
Satan Met a Lady 1936 · as Valerie Purvis
Marked Woman 1937 · as Mary Dwight Strauber
Kid Galahad 1937 · as Fluff Phillips
That Certain Woman 1937 · as Mary Donnell
It's Love I'm After 1937 · as Joyce Arden
Jezebel 1938 · as Julie Marsden
The Sisters 1938 · as Louise Elliott Medlin
Dark Victory 1939 · as Judith Traherne
The Old Maid 1939 · as Charlotte Lovell
Juarez 1939 · as Empress Carlotta von Habsburg
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 · as Queen Elizabeth I
All This, and Heaven Too 1940 · as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
The Letter 1940 · as Leslie Crosbie
The Great Lie 1941 · as Maggie Patterson Van Allen
The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941 · as Joan Winfield
The Little Foxes 1941 · as Regina Giddens
The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 · as Maggie Cutler
In This Our Life 1942 · as Stanley Timberlake
Now, Voyager 1942 · as Charlotte Vale
Watch on the Rhine 1943 · as Sara Muller
Old Acquaintance 1943 · as Kit Marlowe
Mr. Skeffington 1944 · as Fanny Trellis
Hollywood Canteen 1944 · as Herself
The Corn Is Green 1945 · as Miss Lilly Moffat
A Stolen Life 1946 · as Kate Bosworth and Patricia Bosworth
Deception 1946 · as Christine Radcliffe
June Bride 1948 · as Linda Gilman
Beyond the Forest 1949 · as Rosa Moline
All About Eve 1950 · as Margo Channing
Payment on Demand 1951 · as Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
Another Man's Poison 1952 · as Janet Frobisher
The Star 1952 · as Margaret Elliot
The Catered Affair 1956 · as Agnes Hurley
John Paul Jones 1959 · as Empress Catherine the Great
Pocketful of Miracles 1961 · as Apple Annie
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 · as Miss Baby Jane Hudson
Dead Ringer 1964 · as Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
Where Love Has Gone 1964 · as Mrs. Gerald Hayden
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 · as Charlotte Hollis
The Nanny 1965 · as Nanny
The Anniversary 1968 · as Mrs. Taggart
Bunny O'Hare 1971 · as Bunny O'Hare
The Scientific Cardplayer 1972 · as The Millionairess
Return from Witch Mountain 1978 · as Letha
Death on the Nile 1978 · as Marie Van Schuyler
The Watcher in the Woods 1980 · as Mrs. Aylwood
The Whales of August 1987 · as Libby Strong