Ron Howard revealed he didn't make the best first impression on legendary actress Bette Davis when he directed her in 1980 ...

Davis, the queen of Hollywood during its Golden Age, owned the estate with her husband, the actor Gary Merrill, for about a ...

Who doesn't love an older woman scorned and out for revenge or something even worse? That's what the Psycho Biddie genre ...

Davis welcomed daughter Barbara "B.D." in 1947 with husband William Grant Sherry. Following their divorce in 1950, Davis married Gary Merrill, and the couple welcomed Margot and Michael via adoption ...

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 ...

The late All About Eve star lived at the Cape Elizabeth residence with her husband and their children in the 1950s ...

Bette Midler is opening up about her bittersweet encounter with her namesake, Bette Davis. “My mother named me for Bette Davis, which Bette Davis was not pleased to hear,” Midler, 78, said on ...

Bette Davis, slaying in Of Human Bondage. Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known early on as "Betty," grew up in New England and had an easier upbringing. She was fortunate enough to attend boarding schools and ...

Bette Davis film: An article in today’s Calendar section says Bette Davis won an Academy Award in 1938 for the movie “Jezebel.” She received the Oscar for that film in 1939. For The Record ...

But Bette -- as we all know -- was born to succeed. She got summer-stock theater parts and then more theater parts and then went to Hollywood and became a big star, maybe its biggest.

Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series, FX’s Feud, tackles the infamous decadeslong rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis before, during and after the filming of their 1962 film, What ...