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Bette Davis (1908–1989)

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Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1908. Her parents divorced when she was 10. Her early interests were in dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but then she discovered the stage. She gave up dancing for acting. To her, it presented much more of a challenge... See full bio »

Born:

Ruth Elizabeth Davis
in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Died:

(age 81) in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Bette Davis circa 1935 Bette Davis and Celeste Holm Bette Davis c. 1938 **I.V. Bette Davis Feb. 1933 Still of James Cagney, Bette Davis and Stuart Erwin in The Bride Came C.O.D.
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1989 Wicked Stepmother
Miranda Pierpoint
 
1987 The Whales of August
Libby Strong
 
1986 As Summers Die (TV movie)
Hannah Loftin
 
1985 Murder with Mirrors (TV movie)
Carrie Louise Serrocold
 
1983 Right of Way (TV movie)
Mini Dwyer
 
1983 Hotel (TV series)
Laura Trent
– Hotel (1983) … Laura Trent
 
1982 Little Gloria... Happy at Last (TV movie)
Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt (as Betty Davis)
 
1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (TV movie)
Esther McDonald Cimino
 
1981 Family Reunion (TV movie)
Elizabeth Winfield
 
1980 Skyward (TV movie)
Billie Dupree
 
1980 The Watcher in the Woods
Mrs. Aylwood
 
1980 White Mama (TV movie)
Adele Malone
 
1979 Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (TV movie)
Lucy Mason
 
1978 The Children of Sanchez
Woman (uncredited)
 
1978 Death on the Nile
Mrs. Van Schuyler
 
1978 Return from Witch Mountain
Letha
 
1978 The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV mini-series)
Widow Fortune
 
1977 Laugh-In (TV series)
Guest star
– Episode dated 5 November 1977 (1977) … Guest star
 
1976 The Disappearance of Aimee (TV movie)
Minnie Kennedy
 
1976 Burnt Offerings
Aunt Elizabeth
 
1974 Hello Mother, Goodbye! (TV movie)
 
1973 Scream, Pretty Peggy (TV movie)
Mrs. Elliott
 
1972 The Judge and Jake Wyler (TV movie)
Judge Meredith
 
1972 Lo scopone scientifico
The Millionairess
 
1972 Madame Sin
Madame Sin
 
1971 Bunny O'Hare
Bunny O'Hare
 
1970 Connecting Rooms
Wanda Fleming
 
1970 It Takes a Thief (TV series)
Bessie Grindel
– Touch of Magic (1970) … Bessie Grindel
 
1968 The Anniversary
Mrs. Taggart
 
1966 Gunsmoke (TV series)
Etta Stone
– The Jailer (1966) … Etta Stone (as Miss Bette Davis)
 
1965 The Nanny
Nanny
 
1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Charlotte
 
1964 Where Love Has Gone
Mrs. Gerald Hayden
 
1964 Dead Ringer
Margaret DeLorca/Edith Phillips
 
1963 The Empty Canvas
Dino's mother
 
1963 Perry Mason (TV series)
Constant Doyle
– The Case of Constant Doyle (1963) … Constant Doyle
 
1962 The Virginian (TV series)
Celia Miller
– The Accomplice (1962) … Celia Miller
 
1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Baby Jane Hudson
 
1959-1961 Wagon Train (TV series)
Bettina May / Ella Lindstrom / Madame Elizabeth McQueeny
– The Bettina May Story (1961) … Bettina May
– The Elizabeth McQueeny Story (1959) … Madame Elizabeth McQueeny
– The Ella Lindstrom Story (1959) … Ella Lindstrom
 
1961 Pocketful of Miracles
Apple Annie
 
1959 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV series)
Sarah Whitney
– Dark Morning (1959) … Sarah Whitney
 
1959 The Scapegoat
Countess
 
1959 John Paul Jones
Empress Catherine the Great
 
1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
Miss Fox
– Out There - Darkness (1959) … Miss Fox
 
1958 Suspicion (TV series)
Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
– Fraction of a Second (1958) … Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
 
1957-1958 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
Christine Marlowe / Miss Burrows
– The Cold Touch (1958) … Christine Marlowe
– With Malice Toward One (1957) … Miss Burrows
 
1958 Studio 57 (TV series)
– The Starmaker (1958)
 
1957 Telephone Time (TV series)
Beatrice Enter
– Stranded (1957) … Beatrice Enter
 
1957 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
Dolley Madison
– Footnote on a Doll (1957) … Dolley Madison
 
1957 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
Irene Wagner
– For Better, for Worse (1957) … Irene Wagner
 
1956 Storm Center
Alicia Hull
 
1956 The Catered Affair
Mrs. Agnes Hurley
 
1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV series)
Marie Hoke
– Crack-Up (1956) … Marie Hoke
 
1955 The Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth I
 
1952 The Star
Margaret Elliot
 
1952 All Star Revue (TV series)
Guest Actress
– Episode #2.33 (1952) … Guest Actress
 
1952 Phone Call from a Stranger
Marie Hoke
 
1951 Another Man's Poison
Janet Frobisher
 
1951 Payment on Demand
Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
 
1950 All About Eve
Margo
 
1949 Beyond the Forest
Rosa Moline
 
1948 June Bride
Linda Gilman
 
1948 Winter Meeting
Susan Grieve
 
1946 Deception
Christine Radcliffe
 
1946 A Stolen Life
Kate Bosworth/Patricia Bosworth
 
1945 The Corn Is Green
Miss Lilly Moffat
 
1944 Hollywood Canteen
Bette Davis
 
1944 Mr. Skeffington
Fanny Trellis Skeffington
 
1943 Old Acquaintance
Kit Marlowe
 
1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
Bette Davis
 
1943 Watch on the Rhine
Sara Muller
 
1942 Now, Voyager
Charlotte Vale
 
1942 In This Our Life
Stanley Timberlake
 
1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Maggie Cutler
 
1941 The Little Foxes
Regina Giddens
 
1941 The Bride Came C.O.D.
Joan Winfield
 
1941 Shining Victory
Nurse (uncredited)
 
1941 The Great Lie
Maggie Patterson Van Allen
 
1940 The Letter
Leslie Crosbie
 
1940 All This, and Heaven Too
Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
 
1940 If I Forget You (short)
 
1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Queen Elizabeth
 
1939 The Old Maid
Charlotte Lovell
 
1939 Juarez
Carlota
 
1939 Dark Victory
Judith Traherne
 
1938 The Sisters
Louise Elliott Medlin
 
1938 Jezebel
Julie
 
1937 It's Love I'm After
Joyce Arden
 
1937 That Certain Woman
Mary Donnell
 
1937 Kid Galahad
Fluff
 
1937 Marked Woman
Mary
 
1936 Satan Met a Lady
Valerie Purvis
 
1936 The Golden Arrow
Daisy Appleby
 
1936 The Petrified Forest
Gabrielle Maple
 
1935 Dangerous
Joyce Heath
 
1935 Special Agent
Julie Gardner
 
1935 Front Page Woman
Ellen Garfield
 
1935 The Girl from 10th Avenue
Miriam A. Brady
 
1935 Bordertown
Marie Roark
 
1934 Housewife
Patricia Berkeley
 
1934 Of Human Bondage
Mildred
 
1934 Fog Over Frisco
Arlene Bradford
 
1934 Jimmy the Gent
Joan
 
1934 Fashions of 1934
Lynn
 
1934 The Big Shakedown
Norma Nelson
 
1933 Bureau of Missing Persons
Norma Roberts
 
1933 Ex-Lady
Helen Bauer
 
1933 The Working Man
Jenny
 
1933 Parachute Jumper
Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
 
1933 Just Around the Corner (short)
Ginger
 
1932 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Fay Wilson
 
1932 Three on a Match
Ruth Wescott
 
1932 The Cabin in the Cotton
Madge
 
1932 The Dark Horse
Kay Russell
 
1932 The Rich Are Always with Us
Malbro
 
1932 So Big!
Miss Dallas O'Mara
 
1932 The Man Who Played God
Grace Blair
 
1932 Hell's House
Peggy Gardner
 
1932 The Menace
Peggy Lowell
 
1931 Way Back Home
Mary Lucy
 
1931 Waterloo Bridge
Janet Cronin
 
1931 Seed
Margaret Carter
 
1931 The Bad Sister
Laura Madison
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (14 titles)
2007 Big Love (TV series)
– Rock and a Hard Place (2007) (performer: "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte")
 
1972 Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (TV movie) (performer: "Just Like a Man")
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary) (performer: "Willie the Weeper" - uncredited)
 
1964 Dead Ringer (performer: "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" - uncredited)
 
1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (performer: "I'VE WRITTEN A LETTER TO DADDY")
 
1961 Pocketful of Miracles (performer: "Arabian Dance" 1892 - uncredited)
 
1951 Payment on Demand (performer: "A Woman's Intuition" - uncredited)
 
1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars (performer: "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" 1943 - uncredited)
 
1941 The Bride Came C.O.D. ("Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie" - uncredited)
 
1940 All This, and Heaven Too (performer: "The War of the Roses" - uncredited)
 
1939 The Old Maid (music: "Bridal Chorus Here Comes the Bride" 1850 - uncredited / performer: "Bridal Chorus Here Comes the Bride" 1850 - uncredited)
 
1938 Jezebel (performer: "Raise a Ruckus" - uncredited, "Beautiful Dreamer" 1862 - uncredited, "Waltz" - uncredited)
 
1937 Kid Galahad (performer: "The Moon Is in Tears Tonight" 1937 - uncredited)
 
1932 The Cabin in the Cotton (performer: "Willie the Weeper" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowProducer (1 title)
1946 A Stolen Life (producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2010 1 a Minute (in memory of: Battled Breast Cancer)
 
1999 All About My Mother (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (75 titles)
1989 Today (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 21 April 1989 (1989) … Herself
 
1989 Late Night with David Letterman (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 20 April 1989 (1989) … Herself
 
1989 The 6th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV movie)
Herself
 
1988 Larry King Live (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 24 February 1988 (1988) … Herself
 
1988 De película (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 22 February 1988 (1988) … Herself
 
1988 The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV movie)
Herself
 
1963-1988 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 7 January 1988 (1988) … Herself
– Episode dated 22 May 1986 (1986) … Herself
– Episode dated 9 February 1983 (1983) … Herself
– Episode dated 14 February 1972 (1972) … Herself
– Episode dated 1 March 1963 (1963) … Herself
 
1987 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV special documentary)
Herself - Honoree
 
1987 The 32th Annual Thalians Ball (TV movie)
Herself
 
1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role
 
1986 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Directed by William Wyler (1986) … Herself
 
1986 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Herself - César d'honneur
– La 11ème nuit des Césars (1986) … Herself - César d'honneur
 
1986 The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Best Motion Picture Drama
 
1985 Étoiles et toiles (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Episode dated 25 March 1985 (1985) … Herself
 
1983 Arena (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) … Herself
 
1983 The Annual Humanitarian of Year Honors Aaron Spelling (TV movie)
Herself
 
1983 Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1982 All-Star Party for Carol Burnett (TV movie)
Herself
 
1982 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1982 Night of 100 Stars (TV special)
Herself
 
1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
 
1978 The 15th Annual Publicists Guild Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Presenter
 
1978 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1977 Dinah! (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 20 July 1977 (1977) … Herself
 
1977 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis (TV special documentary)
Herself - Honoree
 
1977 Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala (TV movie)
Herself
 
1976 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 19 March 1976 (1976) … Herself
 
1975-1976 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Episode #6.1 (1976) … Herself
– Episode #5.4 (1975) … Herself
 
1975 Parkinson (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #5.8 (1975) … Herself
 
1975 The 1975 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Honoree
 
1974 The 28th Annual Tony Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Presenter
 
1973 ABC Late Night (TV series)
Herself - Hostess
– Warner Bros. Movies: A 50 Year Salute (1973) … Herself - Hostess
 
1973 The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (TV series)
Herself
– Celebrity Roast: Johnny Carson (1973) … Herself
– Celebrity Roast: Bette Davis (1973) … Herself
 
1971-1973 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Herself
– Anne Baxter (1973) … Herself
– Bette Davis (1971) … Herself
 
1972 Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (TV movie)
Herself
 
1970-1971 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)
Herself
– Bette Davis (1971) … Herself
– Episode dated 26 November 1970 (1970) … Herself
 
1971 The Movie Crazy Years (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1971 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #3.157 (1971) … Herself
 
1969 The Joey Bishop Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #4.61 (1969) … Herself
 
1967 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #2.2 (1967) … Herself
– Episode #1.20 (1967) … Herself
– Episode #1.4 (1967) … Herself
 
1967 Think Twentieth (documentary short)
Herself
 
1966 The Milton Berle Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #1.5 (1966) … Herself
 
1964-1966 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
Herself - Dramatic Reader / Herself - Singer / Sketch Actor
– Episode #3.19 (1966) … Herself - Dramatic Reader
– Episode #2.21 (1965) … Herself - Singer/Sketch Actor
– Episode #2.7 (1964) … Herself - Dramatic Reader
 
1952-1965 What's My Line? (TV series)
Herself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 24 October 1965 (1965) … Herself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 29 March 1964 (1964) … Herself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 11 November 1962 (1962) … Herself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 28 August 1960 (1960) … Herself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 5 October 1952 (1952) … Herself - Mystery Guest
 
1965 Bette Davis - Star und Rebellin (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1964-1965 I've Got a Secret (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 1 March 1965 (1965) … Herself
– Episode dated 30 March 1964 (1964) … Herself
 
1962-1964 The Jack Paar Program (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #2.28 (1964) … Herself
– Episode #1.9 (1962) … Herself
 
1963 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
Herself
– The Unsinkable Bette Davis (1963) … Herself (also archive footage)
 
1963 Reflets de Cannes (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Episode dated 16 May 1963 (1963) … Herself
 
1963 The 35th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Presenter: Writing Awards
 
1962 Here's Hollywood (TV series)
Herself
– (1962-12) (1962) … Herself
– Episode dated 9 October 1962 (1962) … Herself
 
1962 The Andy Williams Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #1.12 (1962) … Herself
 
1960 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1959 The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #3.31 (1959) … Herself
 
1959 The 31st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Best Supporting Actor
 
1958 The 30th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Honorary Awards
 
1958 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #2.18 (1958) … Herself
 
1957 This Is Your Life (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Ruth Davis (1957) … Herself
 
1957 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Herself
– Ruth Davis (1957) … Herself
 
1956 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Episode #4.2 (1956) … Herself
 
1955 The 27th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role
 
1943 The Present with a Future (short)
Herself/Mother (uncredited)
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (documentary short)
Herself
 
1938 For Auld Lang Syne (documentary short)
Herself - Arriving Celebrity (uncredited)
 
1938 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (documentary short)
Herself - Oscar Winner
 
1938 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 5 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1938 Breakdowns of 1938 (short)
Herself (That Certain Woman/Jezebel outtakes) (uncredited)
 
1937 A Day at Santa Anita (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 8 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1936 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1936 Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 10 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1936 Breakdowns of 1936 (short)
Herself
 
1935 A Dream Comes True (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1933 The 42nd. Street Special (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (89 titles)
2012 Arena (TV series documentary)
 
2006-2012 60 Minutes (TV series documentary)
 
2011 Vito (documentary)
 
2011 Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (documentary)
 
2010 Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2009 Kinuyo Tanaka's New Departure (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV documentary)
 
2009 Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis (documentary)
Herself
 
2008 Warner at War (TV documentary)
 
2008 Strictly Courtroom (TV documentary)
Leslie Crosbie (uncredited)
 
2008 La 2 noticias (TV series)
 
2008 Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories (video)
Herself
 
2008 Crawford at Warners (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2007 P.S. I Love You
Joyce Heath/Julie Marsden/Charlotte Vale (uncredited)
 
2007 Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (TV documentary short)
Herself
 
2007 Memoirs of a Cigarette (TV documentary)
Charlotte
 
2007 Never Apologize (documentary)
Herself
 
2007 Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (documentary)
Herself
 
2007 Brando (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2007 City Confidential (TV series documentary)
 
2006 Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (TV movie)
Herself
 
2006 Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (TV movie)
Herself
 
2006 Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Ciclo Agatha Christie (TV series documentary)
 
2005 Cinema mil (TV series)
 
1994-2005 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2005 Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (TV movie)
Herself
 
2005 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale (video documentary short)
Queen Elizabeth (uncredited)
 
2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn (TV documentary)
Queen Elizabeth
 
2005 Dead Famous (TV series documentary)
 
2004 Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go Hollywood (video documentary short)
Charlotte Vale (uncredited)
 
2003 Christmas from Hollywood (video documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (video documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Complicated Women (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2003 Bette Davis and William Wyler (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2002 Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2001 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2001 El informal (TV series)
 
2001 E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV series)
 
2001 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
2000-2001 Backstory (TV series documentary)
 
1999 ABC 2000: The Millennium (TV documentary)
 
1999 Hollywood Greats (TV series documentary)
 
1999 All About My Mother
Margo (uncredited)
 
1999 Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1998 Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (TV documentary)
(uncredited)
 
1996 Intimate Portrait (TV series documentary)
 
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1995 Legends of Entertainment Video (video documentary)
Herself
 
1994 All About Bette (TV documentary)
 
1994 Entertaining the Troops (documentary)
Herself
 
1994 Mina Tannenbaum
Mildred Rogers (uncredited)
 
1993 The 65th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself
 
1992 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
 
1991 60 Minutes: The Entertainers (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1991 Wogan (TV series)
 
1991 O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (short)
 
1991 Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1990 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1990 Hairway to the Stars (short)
Herself
 
1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (TV documentary)
Actress in a film clip
 
1988 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1988 South of Reno
Clip from 'Of Human Bondage' (uncredited)
 
1988 Film '72 (TV series)
 
1988 The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (video documentary)
Herself
 
1987 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (documentary)
Margo (archive footage: All About Eve [1950])
 
1987 Power Profiles: Legendary Ladies - Bette Davis and Carole Lombard (video)
Herself
 
1987 Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! (TV documentary)
 
1985 The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (video short)
Letha
 
1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s (documentary)
 
1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1982 Showbiz Goes to War (TV movie)
 
1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Deception")
 
1982 Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (TV documentary)
Actress in 'Jezebel' (uncredited)
 
1981 Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1981 Sixty Years of Seduction (TV documentary)
 
1980 Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1979 The Horror Show (documentary)
 
1978 Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (TV short)
Marie Van Schuyler
 
1970 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1965 Hollywood My Home Town (documentary)
Herself
 
1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 
1955 When the Talkies Were Young (short)
Fay Wilson (uncredited)
 
1943 Stars on Horseback (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1943 The Voice That Thrilled the World (documentary short)
Herself (segment "Dangerous") (uncredited)
 
1941 Breakdowns of 1941 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1939 Land of Liberty
Julie Marsden (edited from: Jezebel)
 

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[on working with Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?] We were polite to each other - all the social amenities, 'Good morning, Joan' and 'Good Morning, Bette' crap - and thank God we weren't playing roles where we had to like each other. But people forget that our big scenes were alone - just the camera was on me or her... See more »

Trivia:

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 232-235. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. See more »

Trademark:

Her large, distinctive eyes See more »

Nickname:

The Fifth Warner Brother See more »

Star Sign:

Aries