Bette Davis Biography

- On her tombstone is written "She did it the hard way".

- When Bette heard that her new brother-in-law was a recovering alcoholic, she sent the couple a dozen cases of alcohol as a wedding present.

- Bette considered her debut screen test for MGM to be so bad that she ran screaming from the projection room.

- She was the first woman to be president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.