Davis's first marriage was to Harmon Nelson, a musician from Massachusetts. Nelson was only one year older than Davis at the time of their nuptials—beyond that, many details surrounding the couple ...
Ruth Elizabeth Davis (she got the "Bette" from the Balzac novel "Cousin Bette") of Lowell, Massachusetts, arrived in Hollywood in 1930 to instant non-acclaim. She became known for the series of tense, ...
“In my day we didn’t talk much about happiness. If it came, we were grateful for it. But we were brought up in the belief that there were other things more important.” “In This Our Life” was released ...
Jul. 24—GLYNDON, Minn. — An iconic movie star has been gone for more than 35 years, but a piece of her life will live on with a Glyndon couple. A 1940 Buick "Woodie Wagon" that once belonged to ...
THE LONELY LIFE (315 pp.)—Bette Davis—Pufnam ($5.75). MARLENE DIETRICH’S ABC (189 pp.)—Marlene Dietrich—Doubleday ($3.95). When Bette Davis first arrived in Hollywood, she was (by her own account) a ...
According to Modern Screen Magazine, published in 1940, one of Bette's favorite foods was baked beans. Bette Davis not only loved to eat baked beans. She also shared the recipe she used to cook them ...