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Personal Life. Davis married four times. Her first marriage, to bandleader Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr., ended in divorce; her second husband, businessman Arthur Farnsworth, died in 1943.
She endured three divorces, sudden widowhood, a shocking betrayal by her own daughter, and the loss of the only man she’d ever truly loved. “If I was a fool in my personal life, I can’t blame...
Married four times, she was once widowed and three times 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 100 film, television, and theater roles to her credit. Life and career.
Michael Merrill (pictured above at a Bette Davis Centennial Tribute in 2008, alongside his mother's longtime personal assistant Kathryn Sermak) was also adopted while Davis was married to Merrill...
Bette's relationship with her daughter, B.D. Hyman, shifted when B.D. became a born-again Christian. After Davis returned from England, where she had been filming "Murder with Mirrors," she discovered her daughter had published a memoir, "My Mother's Keeper," portraying Davis in a negative light.
Bette Davis. Actress: All About Eve. Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother.
Bette Davis died on October 6, 1989. Buried with her beloved Ruthie and Bobbie at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles, her self-chosen epitaph sums up her life with perfect succinctness: “She did it the...
But Davis’s personal life is not what continues to fascinate people 27 years after her death from breast cancer, in 1989, at the age of 81. It is the force of her character as manifest in the...
After all, most of her adult life was caught up in the star’s gravitational pull. Sermak was student, Girl Friday (a term Davis preferred to secretary), personal assistant, friend, confidant, caretaker and heir to the movie queen. After Davis’ death, she was charged with preserving the actress’ legacy, both by co-founding and serving on ...
Bette Davis (born April 5, 1908, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 6, 1989, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a versatile, volatile American actress, whose raw, unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years.