# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bette-davis
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:59:33.620Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bette-davis"
name: "Bette Davis"
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description: "The eyes, the cigarette, the clipped acid delivery — she made a career out of playing women no one else would touch. Bette Davis didn't soften for the camera; she leaned into the sharpness, the bitterness, the unsympathetic, and Hollywood had no choice but to watch."
tagline: "American actress (1908–1989)"
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birthDate: "1908-04-05"
deathDate: "1989-10-06"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ruth Elizabeth Davis came to Hollywood in 1930 after Broadway, but Universal saw nothing in her. Warner Bros. took a chance in 1932, and two years later she broke through as a vulgar waitress in Of Human Bondage — a performance so raw the Academy left her off the ballot, then handed her the Oscar the next year for Dangerous as if in apology. She fought the studio in court in 1936, lost, and somehow that defiance launched the best decade of her life: Jezebel in 1938 brought a second Oscar, then five straight Best Actress nominations through 1942. The late '40s dimmed her, but All About Eve in 1950 — a fading Broadway star clinging to the spotlight — reminded everyone what she could do. A grim late-career turn arrived in 1962 with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, playing a psychotic has-been in full grotesque commitment. She kept working into her eighties, through four marriages, studio wars, and years of illness, racking up over a hundred credits before breast cancer stopped her in 1989.