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| | 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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