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THERE-

CONCLUDING THE BETTE DAVIS STORY

The Little Brown Wren Became The Empress Of Burbank

Bette Davis came to Holly- wood like a mouse, "A little brown wren," someone called Six years later it was a different story.

her.

Awards, Dette had hit a bad palch in four poor films. Bette Davis was through.

They began to say, it aloud:

The star heard the whispers: though she did not need outside 10 discover the truth.

They were calling Bette confirmation

no longer ood.

Davis then "The Empress Her career had been built of Burbank”-the Queen on good, meaty parts.

It was of Warners Burbank studios. falling because the parts were

The girl who had at first been overlooked, pushed aside, was beginning to taste her power.

She was an accomplished actress. Other stars could #fujtimittajat rely on glamour, on expen- sive costumes; Bette Davis knew she was no beauty, but she was triumphing as an actress.

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The turning point in her career came when she was borrowed by RKO to play Mildred opposite Leslie Howard in the film story DI Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage." It was callert a masterpiece, It was certainly a good picture. Her next

for Warners "Dangerous"-won her in 1933 her first Academy Award.

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Gradually Bette Davis became determined business woman, a star-and she crossed a few swords

to win this recognition. They began to call her "mer curial," "domineering," "violent," "Imperious."

In her eighteen years with Warners she had played a vast cavalcade of screen characters. She wa

was the gaunt woman in "The Old Maid." "Jezebel" showed her a vixen.

She was the governess in "All This And Heaven Too," a tyrant in "The Little Foxes," Then came four pictures "A Stolen Life," "Win- ter Meeling." "June Bride" and "Byond The Forestall flops.

SLOW DECLINE

The decline had been gradual. She thought she knew the remedy for her poor films; studio bosses disagreed.

Those words came into use again-violent," "tempestuous,"

terperamental."

Belle Davis explains it lik this. "There simply were no first-rate stories available, I had to make those

pictures. That's all there was."

When "Beyond The Forest was finished she know she would have to do something. She had always been a Bghter. Now she took a decisive step.

She left Warner

Belle has an answer to all this. their bikes, She had been.

many years,

woman alar for

CONT'D-

Bette and her husband, Gary Merrill.

wild tales about tantrums and temper

tress." It remains the same to day. For the Bette Davis story has many years to run.

Altered out of their home.

In 1930 they divorced. ather reluctantly it seemed. though both regretted the de- cision. But later Harmon told friends something about being married to a film star instead of a woman.

Two years later she married

hus-

his

"There are more than a hundred people in the average screen But there were still people in company. she says. "They all Hollywood who knew that what- think differently, have different over the cause of her decline had opinions and contribute different bren was not Bette Davis. One

RECIPE FOR MARRIAGE It would talents.

be

these was RKO. They showed a korry

When Bette Davis came him called state of affairs if everybody were her the script of a

"Story neutral all the time."

Of A Divorce" and she England in Manch with

band number four, reporters About

Оле director she agreed to make it. admitted: "I have great respect ·

The Alm, retitl "Payment asked her "recipe for a happy for him, but when we don't see On Demand," marks the screen marriage."

of Miss Davis junior, I hardly think I'm qualified eye to eye on a scene we talk debut

to discuss it. She thought about it and sometimes we ge: three-year-old Barbara,

nwo months later Darry) again, then conceded: "The Arthur Farnsworth, a wealthy naisy."

The studio and the star got Zanuck asked Bette to read a thing to do is to match the Boston business mon. He died in August, 1943, when divorce ast amount of mutual-to-make it was to be call-Marriage in Hollywood-is-a-plans were being discussed. along_together_through it all seript. She read it and agreed man and the career.

ed "All About Eve respect on both sides. When she ed

problem which has been faced believed in a script she worked The rest is history. Her par- by a large number of stars; formance in the film has been but the system has nearly al-

her best ever and it ways been too big for them. saluted has given her a new confidence.

Hollywood is basically Perhaps that is the wrong word America's afth

indus- biggest for she has never lacked con-

try. But it Is more than that. Adence.

that, 11 la a hot-house, a territory It has given her

anov con- governed by half a dozen dle- tentment. She met her husband on the set of the film. money is the only criterion of

present

iators, a civilisation where It brought her to England where success and where star bill- she is now making her first ing" counts for British picture, with Merrill, with her two children

Gary talent. T is the near by,

all out. " don't think I have a particularly violen: dr restless nature," she said. She sail it then. She believed it then.

ON HER OWN

But in 1930 something snapped. Bette Davis decided to throw everything overboard and she had a out on her own. She

Warners stand-up fight with and left Hollywood for England.

Warners decided to fight back and they challenged her right to work for anyone else in the English courts.

She

before

Mr

way.

paradise. Thie

uppeared Justice Branson, pleading that Fudio and vows to keep it that Nelson, her Worners wanted her to play

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HOLLYWOOD WAYS Ол November 30, 1945, she married William Grant Sherry, a boxer, an artist, a masseur. He was unwise to Hollywood ways, unaware of the drain picture -making has actress when she is working.

She her hand-there was

was used to being waited On the set she could raise

on

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to carry out the wish. It was more than

all right in the studio; dimeuli go-getters' in a man's own home.

Then

there were the two had atmosphere

its homes-oth She is now 43, her own mis effect on Bette Davis.

close 1ogether. both olegant-one at tress. She owes allegiance to ao

Laguna She

married Harmon 0.

Toluca Lake. girlhood sweel, one in

told friends he was not heart, in August, 1932. The sure where he lived, HER AMBITION

sereca colony was full of good

Few people Back in the year 1934 when advice. They sald the

mar. broken overworking her, often for 14

marriage and Say- hours a day.

she filled out her first biography ringe would not work. He was "that is where it went wrong." This wng period when sheet for Warners there had a squall-time bandleader; She The fnct is that Bette Hollywood was working much been one question which asked: a rising stor. Her, salary was and William Sherry were 17, Hankow Rd., Kowloon faster than today. Five or six "What is your grealest am- big enough pay his andi divorced in July, 1950, and In

that of his band. Alms a year--unheard of today billon?"

same month she married FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY were a not unusual stint then.

The marriage lasted six years Gary Merrill, n New York made five

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during which time all sorts of actor-in Juarez, Mexico, flims with not one day's break

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Warner Brothers, however, were fighting for a valuable slar. in her contract there was a formal admission that her services were "of a special, unique, extra- ordinary and intellectual charne-

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it...

Then

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"Dark

"All This. And

Heaven Too," "Now Voyager," and "The Com Is Green" In 1948 she earned £91,000; she was the highest paid actress in Holly- wood.

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CONFIRMATION "All About Eve" was not just am to Bette Davis! It was a confirmation.

Two years ago they were be ginning to talk about her in tho past tense. --Affer oightéem suc- cessful years and two Academy

Her reply, sti filed in the studio, was To be a good ac-

the

~Wild Otto Kruger in

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Davis

The OSCAR WINNER

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