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Bette Davis Trivia
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- Nominated for an Academy Award 5 years in a row for movies in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942. She shares the record for most consectutive nominations with Greer Garson.
- She was of Welsh and Scottish descent.
- The last words she uttered on screen (in Wicked Stepmother (1989)) were, 'Call me mom'.
- Was almost fired her first day on the Warner Brothers lot. The first time studio head 'Harry Warner' actually looked at her, he said, "tell whoever hired this girl he's fired. Look at her! She's got about as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville!"
- After the song "Bette Davis Eyes" became a hit single, Ms. Davis wrote letters to singer Kim Carnes and songwriters Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon and asked how did they know so much about her. One of the reasons Davis loved the song is that her granddaughter heard it and thought her grandmother was "cool" for having a hit song written about her.
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