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This article is about Bette Davis the actress; there is also a singer named Betty Davis. Ruth Elizabeth Davis, better known as Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), was an American actress of stage, screen and television. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Bette Davis was renowned for her intense, forceful persona and artistic versatility during a career that spanned six decades and almost one hundred films
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945), is a singer, actress, and comedian. She is named after the legendary actress Bette Davis although Midler pronounces her name as one syllable, not two. Bette Midler - Biography
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| | | | * Encyclopedia II - Bette Davis - The early years Davis was born to Harlow Morrell Davis, a descendant of Welsh Puritans, and Ruth Favor, a descendant of Huguenot pioneers. In 1918 Davis' father ran off, leaving Bette and her sister, Barbara, to be raised in genteel poverty by their mother, who had aspired to be an actress. As a child Bette aspired to be a dancer, until she decided that actors led a more glamorous life. Upon graduation from Cushing Academy, a prep school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, Davis was denied admission to Eva LeGallienne's Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was c ...
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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945), is a singer, actress, and comedian. She is named after the legendary actress Bette Davis although Midler pronounces her name as one syllable, not two.
Bette Midler - Biography.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii to Jewish parents, she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii but got her start singing in the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York City, where she became friends with, among others, Barry Manilow, who was her piano accompanist. He produc ...
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All About Eve is a 1950 movie drama written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from the story The Wisdom of Eve, by Mary Orr.
Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a highly regarded, aging Broadway actress, with Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, a young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Hugh Marlowe, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's ...
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