Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly ...

"Of Human Bondage" (1934): After churning out 22 films in her first three years in Hollywood, Davis finally got her big break in this adaptation of the celebrated Somerset Maugham novel. She sizzled ...

Classic Hollywood was a pinnacle time for some of the most infamous on-screen duos, such as John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, and Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Bette Davis (1908-89) arrived in Hollywood in 1930 after some modest successes on Broadway. The demise of silent movies made stage actors valuable in Tinseltown, and she was initially signed by ...