
Bette Davis
Highest Rated: 100% The Petrified Forest (1936)
Lowest Rated: 17% The Catered Affair (1956)
Birthday: Apr 05, 1908
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on Apr. 5, 1908 in Lowell, MA, and moved to New York City with her mother and younger sister at age 13. After graduating from prep school, Davis joined George Cukor's Rochester, NY-based stock theater company, through which she accrued parts in productions like "Broadway" and "The Wild Duck" in 1929. That same year, she made her Broadway debut with the play "Broken Dishes." The following year, Davis moved to Hollywood to transition to screen acting; her earliest film roles included "The Bad Sister" (1931) and "Waterloo Bridge" (1931). It was the following year that Davis earned her big break: a role in "The Man Who Would Be God" (1932), which launched her career in earnest. Her next big winner was "Of Human Bondage" (1934), which earned Davis her first Academy Award nomination. Her next nomination and first win came one year later with "Dangerous" (1935). Success followed Davis as she then appeared opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Petrified Forest" (1936) and in "Marked Woman" (1937), and then won another Oscar for her work in "Jezebel" (1938). The following year was especially fortuitous for Davis, with box office smashes like "Dark Victory" (1939), "The Old Maid" (1939), "Juarez" (1939), and "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" (1939). Likewise, successful pictures to follow included "The Letter" (1940) and "The Little Foxes" (1941). 1943 saw the death of Davis' then-husband Arthur Farnsworth, which led to a slight hiccup in her productivity. Following this, she endured poor reception to a series of her features, namely "A Stolen Life" (1946) and "Beyond the Forest" (1949). However, it was next that perhaps her most iconic role would find her: that of Margo in "All About Eve" (1950). Successes to follow would include "The Star" (1952), "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962), and the family films "Return from Witch Mountain" (1978) and "Watcher in the Woods" (1980). Davis died at age 81 on Oct. 6, 1989 following a battle with cancer.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 16% | Wicked Stepmother | Miranda Pierpoint (Character) | $43.7K | 1989 |
64% | 66% | The Whales of August | Libby Strong (Character) | $127.3K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 50% | As Summers Die | Hannah Loftin (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Murder With Mirrors | Carrie Louise Serrocold (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Laura Trent (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Right of Way | Mini Dwyer (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | 80% | A Piano for Mrs. Cimino | Esther McDonald Cimino (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Family Reunion | Unknown (Character) | - | 1981 |
50% | 57% | The Watcher in the Woods | Mrs. Aylwood (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | 100% | White Mama | Adele Malone (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skyward | Billie Dupree (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Lucy Mason (Character) | - | 1979 |
76% | 78% | Death on the Nile | Mrs. Van Schuyler (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Secret of Harvest Home | Widow Fortune (Character) | - | 1978 |
50% | 40% | Return From Witch Mountain | Letha (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Disappearance of Aimee | Minnie Kennedy (Character) | - | 1976 |
54% | 43% | Burnt Offerings | Aunt Elizabeth (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scream, Pretty Peggy | Mrs. Elliott (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 68% | The Scientific Cardplayer | The Millionairess (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Judge and Jake Wyler | Judge Meredith (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Bunny O'Hare | Bunny O'Hare (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 10% | Madame Sin | Madame Sin (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Connecting Rooms | Wanda Fleming (Character) | - | 1969 |
80% | 72% | The Anniversary | Mrs. Taggart (Character) | - | 1968 |
85% | 79% | The Nanny | Nanny (Character) | - | 1965 |
82% | 85% | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Charlotte (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Empty Canvas | Dino's mother (Character) | - | 1964 |
100% | 80% | Dead Ringer |
Margaret DeLorca/ |
- | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Where Love Has Gone | Mrs. Gerald Hayden (Character) | - | 1964 |
92% | 92% | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Miss Baby Jane Hudson (Character) | - | 1962 |
50% | 72% | Pocketful of Miracles | Apple Annie (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Scapegoat | Countess (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Storm Center | Alicia Hull (Character) | - | 1956 |
17% | 71% | The Catered Affair | Mrs. Agnes Hurley (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 65% | The Virgin Queen | Queen Elizabeth I (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 49% | Phone Call From a Stranger | Marie Hoke (Character) | - | 1952 |
29% | 60% | The Star | Margaret Elliot (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Payment on Demand | Joyce Ramsey (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Another Man's Poison | Janet Frobisher (Character) | - | 1951 |
99% | 94% | All About Eve | Margo Channing (Character) | $10.2K | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Beyond the Forest | Rosa Moline (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Winter Meeting | Susan Grieve (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 54% | June Bride | Linda Gilman (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 76% | A Stolen Life |
Kate Bosworth/ Producer |
- | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Deception | Christine Radcliffe (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 74% | The Corn Is Green | Miss Lilly Moffat (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Hollywood Canteen | Bette Davis (Character) | - | 1944 |
57% | 80% | Mr. Skeffington | Fanny Trellis Skeffington (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Old Acquaintance | Kit Marlowe (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Self | - | 1943 |
80% | 63% | Watch on the Rhine | Sara Muller (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 76% | In This Our Life | Stanley Timberlake (Character) | - | 1942 |
93% | 90% | Now, Voyager | Charlotte Vale (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Bride Came C.O.D. | Joan Winfield (Character) | - | 1941 |
60% | 71% | The Great Lie | Maggie Patterson Van Allen (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 80% | The Little Foxes | Regina Giddens (Character) | - | 1941 |
86% | 82% | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Maggie Cutler (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% | 82% | The Letter | Leslie Crosbie (Character) | - | 1940 |
83% | 84% | All This and Heaven Too | Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 51% | Juarez | Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg (Character) | - | 1939 |
71% | 64% | Elizabeth the Queen | Queen Elizabeth (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 76% | The Old Maid | Charlotte Lovell (Character) | - | 1939 |
88% | 81% | Dark Victory | Judith Traherne (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 58% | The Sisters | Louise Elliott Medlin (Character) | - | 1938 |
95% | 82% | Jezebel | Julie (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 44% | That Certain Woman | Mary Donnell (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 82% | It's Love I'm After | Joyce Arden (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% | 68% | Kid Galahad | Louise "Fluff" Phillips (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% | 70% | Marked Woman | Mary Dwight Strauber (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% | 80% | The Petrified Forest | Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 21% | Satan Met a Lady | Valerie Purvis (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 20% | The Golden Arrow | Daisy Appleby (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Special Agent | Julie (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Girl From 10th Avenue | Miriam A. Brady (Character) | - | 1935 |
100% | 38% | Bordertown | Mrs. Marie Roark (Character) | - | 1935 |
86% | 62% | Dangerous | Joyce Heath (Character) | - | 1935 |
80% | 33% | Front Page Woman | Ellen Garfield (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Fog Over Frisco | Arlene Bradford (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 30% | The Big Shakedown | Norma Nelson (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Jimmy the Gent | Miss Joan Martin (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 54% | Fashions | Lynn Mason (Character) | - | 1934 |
85% | 69% | Of Human Bondage | Mildred Rogers (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Housewife | Patricia Berkeley (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 62% | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Fay Wilson (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parachute Jumper | Patricia "Alabama" Brent (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Bureau of Missing Persons | Norma Roberts (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 60% | The Working Man | Jenny (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Ex-Lady | Helen Bauer (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 41% | The Man Who Played God | Grace Blair (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Cabin in the Cotton | Madge Norwood (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 54% | The Dark Horse | Kay Russell (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 50% | So Big | Miss Dallas O'Mara (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Way Back Home | Mary Lucy (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Menace | Peggy Lowell (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Three on a Match | Ruth Wescott (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 21% | Hell's House | Peggy Gardner (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Bad Sister | Laura Madison (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seed | Margaret Carter (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Waterloo Bridge | Janet Cronin (Character) | - | 1931 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Carson | Guest | 1988 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Laura Trent (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Unknown (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Reunion | Elizabeth Winfield (Character) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Merv Griffin Show | Guest | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Etta Stone (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1964-1965 1962 1960 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1964-1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Constant Doyle (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The June Allyson Show | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
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