Hollywood icon Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Davis went on to win two Academy Awards for Best Actress and was nominated 10 times for the award.
Bette Davis, a Hollywood legend whose 'raw, unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years,' as Encyclopedia Britannica put it, was born on this day in history, April 5, 1908.
Davis and Warner Brothers had a 'stormy relationship,' as the studio was 'more accustomed to promoting its tough male stars,' said TCM. After making a series of 'forgettable' films with Warner Bros., her 'career took a dramatic turn when she was lent to RKO to play the slatternly Mildred opposite Leslie Howard in ‘Of Human Bondage’ , an unsympathetic role that several other actresses had turned down,' that site notes.
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