Hollywood Remembers Bette Davies
Bette Davis had to fight hard throughout the course of her career. Failing at first to get into drama school, she was fired from an early job and failed her initial screen test. Despite winning her first Oscar in Dangerous (1935), she was rarely given the meaty roles she craved.
A feminist icon ahead of her time, Bette Davis or the 'little brown wren', was motivated by integrity and talent, not the glamour and superficiality of the era. Her second Oscar was given for her performance in Jezebel (1938) and she followed up with film classics such as The Little Foxes (1941) and Now Voyager (1942).
