Bette Davis received world-wide recognition as an award-winning American actress during the 20th Century. Known to have a strong, independent personality, she was called The First Lady of the American Screen, making over 100 films in her nearly sixty-year acting career and by being the first woman in many...

Oct 12, 1989 · LOS ANGELES -- Actress Bette Davis, whose tempestuous and fiery public career spanned a half-century, was buried Thursday in a private ceremony for two dozen relatives and close friends,...

In 1999, Davis was placed second on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful.

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May 19, 2020 · Search all Bette Davis Obituaries and Death Notices to find upcoming funeral home services, leave condolences for the family, and research genealogy.

Oct 10, 1989 · A “very private” funeral will be held sometime later this month for Bette Davis, the screen legend who died at age 81 in France, her lawyer said Monday. Miss Davis, who had breast cancer,...

Oct 9, 1989 · A private funeral will be held some time this month on the West Coast for Bette Davis, the screen legend who died at age 81 in France, her lawyer said. Davis, who had breast cancer, died Friday night at the American Hospital in Paris.

Dec 17, 2022 · On her tombstone at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in LA, where she's buried, the epitaph reads: "She did it the hard way." Bette Davis was known as a person who …

Here is the final resting place of Bette Davis. Davis was a 2 time Academy Award winner and 10 time nominee. She lays to rest with her sister and mother at Forest Lawn.

Oct 6, 2024 · The tombstone is iconic in its own right; countless articles about Davis have been entitled “She did it the hard way,” and the epitaph was even evoked in the final scene of the 2017 biopic series Feud: Bette and Joan. But where did the actual phrase come from?