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About Bette Davis. Bette Davis. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood inbut her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. Inshe attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late s, she was Bette Davis in Her Own Words of American cinema's most celebrated leading actresses, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and her confrontations with studio executives, film directors and costars were often reported. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was the first actor to receive 10 Academy Award nominations and the Bette Davis in Her Own Words woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bette Davis in Her Own Words American Film Institute. Her career went through several periods of decline, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and thrice 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 film, television and theater roles to her credit. InDavis was placed second, behind Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time. Books by Bette Davis. Escape the Present with These 24 Historical Romances. You know the saying: There's no time like the present In that case, we can't Read more No trivia or quizzes yet. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Bette Davis - Wikiquote Opinions on Bette Davis are not scarce. Her famous feuds and boil-over temper were Bette Davis in Her Own Words, yet her close friends also knew a woman who was driven to succeed not just as an actor but as a person, within her own limits. Bette begins the book by claiming all faults as her own, all mistakes laid at no other door than her own. She was throwing formidable tantrums with no discipline when she was a toddler, she held total reign over her mother while courting attention from her highly intelligent, completely aloof father. The dog, a vicious chow who bit everyone, was the only being Bette ever remembered her father showing affection for. Bette refers to her austere Yankee upbringing many times with a mixture of pride and as a label to explain herself. No not good enough, the best. And that plain and simple is what drove Bette Davis. She had four marriages and several children, won two Oscars and had multiple awards and nominations throughout her lifetime. Bette wrote this book invery defensive about herself, her personality, her failures as she saw them; and most of Bette Davis in Her Own Words how much men contributed to her ire. So, she fought. About everything. Everything is in absolutes. Only respect for a fellow actor. Yes, courage it must have taken to live in her time period and remain true to herself. She really was who she was. It Bette Davis in Her Own Words not a riveting read, and her imperious manner bores at times; but it is fairly thorough as far as autobiographies go. 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My dad would illustrate my early stories and I would listen to him ramble about European history and warfare, eagerly asking questions about Kings, Queens and our own family history. In my adult life I am wife to a brilliant and hilarious web designer and mother to two wonderfully weird children whom I am trying to pass on to my love of learning about the world. I'm an amateur genealogist, amateur photographer and amateur history major haha. I'm good at doing amateur stuff lol. During the last couple years I finally turned my life-long urge to write into a serious endeavor and finished my first novel called for now The Stone and the Stars, about a dying dystopian society, and one girl trying to escape it before it collapses. While I finish cleaning up the edges on my novel for the umpteenth time, and before I send it out into the world, I've lately begun Bette Davis in Her Own Words novel about utopia, this time on Earth. 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