Remembering Bette Davis

Miss Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts.  After graduating from the private boarding school her mother sent her to, she enrolled in John Murray Anderson's Dramatic School.  In 1929, she made her Broadway debut in "Broken Dishes."  One year later, she moved to Hollywood for screen testing and to persue a career in film.  And what a career it was! Fifty-eight years in film!

Take a look at a few of her most memorable roles here  as Kim Carnes reminds us about those Bette Davis Eyes

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. "       ~   Bette Davis

No one could have said it better! Bette Davis' acting career was bigger than life.  And today, one hundred and three years after a baby girl named Bette Davis entered this world, many still marvel at her charisma, her bigger than life screen personna, and her amazing legacy.

How many of them can you identify?  How many of these have you seen?  Which one is your favorite Bette Davis film?  And, while you're at it, can you pinpoint which ones Bette Davis was either nominated for or won an Academy Award?

1989  The Wicked Stepmother 
1987  The Whales of August 
1986  As Summers Die
1981  The Watcher in the Woods 
1978  Return from Witch Mountain
          Death on the Nile 
1976  Burnt Offerings 
1972  Lo Scopone Scientifico
          Madame Sin
1971  Bunny O'Hare
         Connecting Rooms
1968  The Anniversary 
1965  Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 
         The Nanny 
1964  La Noia
         Where Love Has Gone
         Dead Ringer 
1962  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 
1961  Pocketful of Miracles 
1959  John Paul Jones
1957  The Scapegoat
1956  Storm Center
         The Catered Affair
1955  The Virgin Queen 
         Crack-Up
1952  The Star 
         Another Man's Poison
         Phone Call from a Stranger 
1951  Payment on Demand 
1950  All About Eve
1949  Beyond the Forest
1948  Winter Meeting
          June Bride
1946  Deception 
         A Stolen Life 
1945  The Corn is Green
1944  Mr. Skeffington 
         Hollywood Canteen 
1943 Watch on the Rhine
        Thank Your Lucky Stars 
        Old Acquaintance
        Show Business at War
1942  Now, Voyager 
           In This Our Life
1941  The Man Who Came to Dinner 
         The Bride Came C.O.D. 
         Shining Victory
         The Little Foxes 
         The Great Lie 
1940 The Letter 
          All This and Heaven Too
1939  Juarez
         Elizabeth, the Queen
        The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
        The Old Maid 
        Dark Victory 
1938  Jezebel
        The Sisters
1937  It's Love I'm After 
          Marked Woman 
          Kid Galahad
          That Certain Woman 
1936  The Petrified Forest
           Satan Met a Lady
          The Golden Arrow 
1935  Special Agent
          Front Page Woman
         The Girl From Tenth Avenue
         Dangerous
         Bordertown 
1934  Fashions of 1934
        Of Human Bondage 
        Fog Over Frisco 
       Menace
       Jimmy the Gent 
       The Big Shakedown
       Housewife
1933  20,000 Years in Sing-Sing 
       The Working Man
        Ex-Lady
        Bureau of Missing Persons 
        Parachute Jumper
1932  The Man Who Played God
       Way Back Home
       The Menace
       Hell's Home
      The Cabin in the Cotton
      The Rich Are Always with Us
      So Big
      Three on a Match
      The Dark Horse
1931  Seed
       Bad Sister
      Waterloo Bridge

Best Actress Nomination for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane --- 1963
Best Actress Nomination for The Star --- 1953
Best Actress Nomination for All About Eve --- 1951
Best Actress Nomination for Mr. Skeffington --- 1945
Best Actress Nomination for Now, Voyager --- 1943
Best Actress Nomination for The Little Foxes --- 1942
Best Actress Nomination for The Letter --- 1941
Best Actress Nomination for Dark Victory --- 1940
Best Actress Won for Jezebel --- 1939
Best Actress Won for Dangerous --- 1936
Best Actress Nomination for Of Human Bondage --- 1935