In the latter stage of her career, her most successful films were Death on the Nile (1978) and The Whales of August (1987).
Her last Oscar nomination was for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), which also starred her famous rival Joan Crawford. She played a Broadway star in All About Eve (1950), which earned her another Oscar nomination and won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her forthright manner, idiosyncratic speech, and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona that has been often imitated. She could be combative and confrontational with studio executives and film directors, as well as with her co-stars, expecting the same high standard of performance and commitment from them as she expected from herself.
Davis's portrayal of a strong-willed 1850s southern belle in Jezebel (1938) won her a second Academy Award for Best Actress and was the first of five consecutive years in which she received a Best Actress nomination the others were for Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941) and Now, Voyager (1942).ĭavis was known for her forceful and intense style of acting and gained a reputation as a perfectionist in her craft. The same year, she starred in Marked Woman, a film regarded as one of the most important in her early career. In 1937, she tried to free herself from her contract with Warner Brothers Studio although she lost the legal case, it marked the start of more than a decade as one of the most celebrated leading ladies of U.S.
The next year, her performance as a down-and-out actress in Dangerous (1935) did land Davis her first Best Actress nomination, and she won. After some unsuccessful films, she had her critical breakthrough playing a vulgar waitress in Of Human Bondage (1934) although, contentiously, she was not among the three nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actress that year. Urn:oclc:717295157 Scandate 20110902232956 Scanner Davis appeared on Broadway in New York, then the 22-year-old Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930. OL4518956W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.45 Pages 214 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0806509546 Urn:lcp:bettedavisherfil00ring:epub:c9b55d0f-bcfc-43d9-bafb-cad4323d89e7 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bettedavisherfil00ring Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5n886q2q Isbn 0806509538ĩ780806509549 Lccn 84023214 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:47:44 Boxid IA1206020 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Secaucus, N.J.
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