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 Bette Davis at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this tour de force and such was the outrage that she received many write in votes from disgruntled Academy members, the eventual winner was longtime rival Katherine Hepburn.
In 1977, Davis became the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy.
It should be pointed out that many who knew both Davis and her daughter claimed that this book was largely fiction and that Davis, although in some ways difficult, was really a loving mother and grandmother.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Bette_Davis.html   (661 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Davis, Bette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
DAVIS, BETTE [Davis, Bette], 1908-89, American film actress, b.
Frustrated at the lack of better roles, she broke her contract with Warner Brothers and lost a subsequent court case in which the standard seven-year contract binding a performer to one studio was upheld.
But Davis found her niche as the troubled woman in search of romance in such films as Jezebel (1938), for which she won another Academy Award, and The Little Foxes (1941).
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 Bette Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ruth Elizabeth Davis, nicknamed The Fifth Warner Brother or The First Lady of Film, always put her work first.
Even with ailments that set he back, Davis worked harder and harder to obtain good roles in movies and even went to the extent of suing Warner Brothers, who wouldn’t allow her to break her 7-year contract with them.
Davis was the mother of 2 adopted children, Michael and Margo, and one biological daughter, Barbara Davis Sherry.
celebrities.adoption.com /famous/bette-davis.html   (193 words)

  
 Bette Davis
But Davis found her niche as the troubled woman in search of romance in such films as
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