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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ruth Elizabeth Bette Davis
April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989

“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.” 

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I have never not been honored or thrilled to receive an award, and I have been very fortunate with awards. I see that they’re kept shined, very prominently displayed, and I call them “my blood, sweat and tears” — because of course that’s what they are, no question about it.

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“Bette is of a different temperament than I. She has to yell every morning. So I just sat and knitted. I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu.” — Joan Crawford

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all-about-bette:

“If Bette Davis were here today, I don’t think she would make any effort to correct anybody’s image about her. When you’re an actress, and a great actress, and your world is your public, and your public is out there in the dark, and you’re up there, huge on the screen… You become an icon to yourself as well. And that is like a candle that keeps glowing in the dark, and that’s what Bette Davis was. A candle, that will always glow in the dark.” — Dr. Howard Gotlieb

Ruth Elizabeth Davis
April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989

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Bette Davis at Warner Brothers in the early ’30s (part 1)

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