Bette Davis

Bette Davis

• Ceremony was on February 8, 1960

Motion Pictures Star for Bette Davis

Location: 6225 Hollywood Boulevard
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Bette Davis

• Ceremony was on February 8, 1960

Television Star for Bette Davis

Location: 6335 Hollywood Boulevard
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Bette Davis

• Bette Davis was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for five consecutive years from 1939 to 1943 and for nine Best Actress Oscars in total. She won for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938). In 1977, she was the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award
• Davis contributed to the WWII effort by co-founding and volunteering at the Hollywood Canteen. The Hollywood Canteen, a once-abandoned nightclub, operated between 1942 and 1945 offering food, dancing and entertainment for servicemen passing through LA. In 1980, she was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal
• Hollywood executives wanted her to change her name to Bettina Dawes, but she said she didn't want to spend her life having people call her 'Between the Drawers'

Bette Davis

Bette Davis

PARIS - Colleagues, friends and a generation of fans on Saturday mourned Bette Davis, who began her career playing nasty, driven women and died more than a half-century later as one of the world's most beloved film stars.
The 81-year-old actress died Friday night at the American Hospital in Paris, a hospital spokesman confirmed Saturday.
The two-time Oscar winning actress had been on her way home to West Hollywood, Calif., from a film festival in San Sebastian, Spain, where she had been honored for a lifetime of achievement and had won the hearts of the festival audience with her warmth, wit and honesty.
In New York, her longtime attorney Howard Schiff said she died of cancer and that she had battled the disease since a mastectomy in 1983. During that same year, she also suffered a stroke and a broken hip.
Her doctors knew the cancer had spread and was terminal, he said, but decided to "let her go on going about her business."
Her business was film, and over the course of 59 years she starred in some of America's most memorable movies.
Among her more than 80 films were "Of Human Bondage," "All About Eve," and "Dark Victory." She was nominated for the Academy Award 10 times and won the best actress award for "Dangerous, in 1935 and "Jezebel" in 1938.
"What a loss," said actress Olivia de Havilland, who worked with Miss Davis in four films, including the 1964 "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte."
"She was a remarkable person to work with, highly professional, innovative, brilliant, and quick said Miss de Havilland, 73. "I thought she had some marvelous personal qualities, and I was very fond of her."
Vincent Price, who worked with Miss Davis on "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" in 1939 and "Whales of August" in 1987, said in Los Angeles: "There are very few people left who really sum up the motion picture industry, who had that star quality. It was really rare. She had extraordinary energy; she was a genius."
In a statement from Los Angeles, former President Reagan, who starred with Miss Davis in the 1939 film "Dark Victory," said she made "some of the most memorable moments in the history of film and touched us in a way few others have. For Bette, acting was more than a profession; it was an art."
Actor Charlton Heston paid homage to Miss Davis as "one of the most significant women to shape American film both through her talents as an actress and her spirited character."
"I mark what she has done, and while I salute her passing, I rejoice that we still have her work," Heston said in a telephone interview.
Angela Lansbury, who co-starred with Miss Davis in the 1982 television mini-series "Little Gloria, Happy at Last," said the actress was "the last of the great Hollywood stars. ... She was a beacon of light for all of us who were starting out."
Miss Davis attributed her success more to hard work than genius, and she was known for being as strong and uncompromising off-screen as some of the characters she portrayed. The line most identified with her was "What a dump!" from the film "Beyond the Forest."
She also was credited with giving the gold Oscar statue its name. According to the story, she contended the statue's rear end resembled that of her first husband whose middle name was Oscar.
"The person who wants to make it has to sweat," Miss Davis once said. "There are no shortcuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated. That's the hardest part.