A portrait of Bette Davis taken for Warner Bros. Studios in 1931, when she signed her contract with the studio following the success of The Man Who Played God. She would remain at the studio for ...

Bette Davis with her dog in California, 1947. From Alice Crocker's notes: "On terrace with blank spaniel." Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ...

The first major exhibition of Hollywood studio portraiture at the Museum of Modern Art will feature studio photos of Clara Bow, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor ...

BETTE DAVIS - who will appear on screens in Death on the Nile this afternoon - had an 'indestructible' temper that helped change the face of Hollywood for men and women after she fought Warner ...

The film channel TCM is screening a special centenary tribute to the legendary Hollywood grande dame, Bette Davis, throughout April. Davis won two Oscars early on in her long-running career, yet ...

Bette Davis battled studio bosses, husbands and rivals during her long acting career, establishing a tough persona in real life to match her enduring Hollywood image. She would need all that ...

Not that there is any one Bette Davis image. Other stars of her era may be more easily summoned to mind -- Katharine Hepburn, say, or even Joan Crawford.