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Bette Davis

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I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.


— Bette Davis


#become #character #character actress #had #i

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.


— Bette Davis


#ever #having #i #laugh #off

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.


— Bette Davis


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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.


— Bette Davis


#because #groceries #had #i #pay

I will never be below the title.


— Bette Davis


#i #never #title #will

I work to stay alive.


— Bette Davis


#i #stay #work

I've lost my faith in science.


— Bette Davis


#i #lost #science

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.


— Bette Davis


#known #monster #star #until #you

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!


— Bette Davis


#guilty #innocent #proved #till

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.


— Bette Davis


#even #i #left #locations #miserable






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Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch rather than by a smaller committee with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse. " The New York Times hailed her as "becoming one of the most interesting of our screen actresses". Eventually Davis brought her case to court in Britain hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros.

Until the late 1940s Bette Davis was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies known for her forceful and intense style. in 1932 and establiBette Davisd her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1999 Davis was placed second after Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.

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