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"The First Lady of the American Screen" (Estate of Bette Davis)

Bette Davis was a very important and impressive woman. "With a career spanning six decades" she surprised everyone in the industry and it will be hard for other actresses to top her.When her parents divorced, her mother, with the little money she had, sent Bette and her sister to boarding school. After graduating from boarding school she applied to Eva LeGallienne´s Manhattan Civic Repertory where she was rejected for being thought as not sincere and "frivolous" and that is why she later went to John Murray Anderson's Dramatic School and later debuted in Broadway with the play "Broken Dishes" in 1929.She was married four times, by which she later confessed "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. "(Bette Davis). Her first husband was Harmon "Ham" Nelson. Her second husband was Arthur Farnsworth who died. After his death she married William Grant Sherry whom she divorced but had one daughter called Barbara Davis Sherry. Her last husband was Gary Merill with whom she adopted two children who were Michael and Margo, who was severely retarded. She said it herself " If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. " After many moves i her life she wrote her last book called "Bette Davis, The Lonely Life".

**Her participation in War:**

Bette Davis lived during the Pearl Harbor attack. She participated by selling war bonds. In two days she was able to sell two million dollars in bonds. Her contribution to the Pearl Harbor attack was very different to other´s. She opened up a serviceman club called the Hollywood Cantine. Opening up that cantine was something she wasn´t really proud of. But despite that, she won a medal and an award for her war efforts.

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