Ruth Elizabeth Davis (she got the "Bette" from the Balzac novel "Cousin Bette") of Lowell, Massachusetts, arrived in Hollywood in 1930 to instant non-acclaim. She became known for the series of tense, ...
Bette Midler is opening up about her bittersweet encounter with her namesake, Bette Davis. “My mother named me for Bette Davis, which Bette Davis was not pleased to hear,” Midler, 78, said on the ...
THE LONELY LIFE (315 pp.)—Bette Davis—Pufnam ($5.75). MARLENE DIETRICH’S ABC (189 pp.)—Marlene Dietrich—Doubleday ($3.95). When Bette Davis first arrived in Hollywood, she was (by her own account) a ...
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