Trivia of Bette Davis
Trivia of Bette Davis
*Her birth name was Ruth Elizabeth Davis.When she first came to Hollywood as a contract player, Universal Pictures wanted to change her name to Bettina Dawes. She informed the studio that she refused to go through life with a name that sounded like "Between the Drawers".Betty Davis was inspired to become an actress after seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), and changed the spelling of her name to "Bette" after Honore de Balzac's La Cousine Bette.
*Davis made her film debut in 1931's "Bad Sister." The film marked Davis' first collaboration with Humphrey Bogart; the duo went on to make six films together later.
*Davis starred in one of her career-defining roles when she portrayed Southern belle Julie Marsden in the film "Jezebel" (1938).The actress earned critical acclaim for her portrayal along with an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role.Her Oscar was sold at auction on July 19, 2001 for $57,800. The buyer was Steven Spielberg, who then immediately donated it back to the Academy.
*Bette Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
*During her great film career, she reportedly did not get along with her co-stars Miriam Hopkins, Susan Hayward, Celeste Holm and most infamously Joan Crawford.
*Her co-star from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Joan Crawford once said in an interview that she and Davis had nothing in common. In reality, they had a handful of similarities in their personal lives. They both had fathers who abandoned their families at a young age; both rose from poverty to success while breaking into films during the late 1920s and early 1930s; both had siblings and mothers who milked them financially once they became famous; both became Oscar-winning leading ladies; both were staunch liberal Democrats and feminists; both had four husbands (both were widowed once and divorced three times); both adopted children and both had daughters who wrote lurid books denouncing them as bad mothers.
*In the early 1980s, she was once asked by an interviewer if she had any regrets about her career. In answer, she remarked that the only regret she had was that she was never able to appear in a movie with Clark Gable, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, or James Stewart during the days of the studio system because Warner Bros. never did "loan outs".
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