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Bette Davis Birthdate

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On this day in 1908, American actress, Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, MA.  In addition to acting in more than 80 films, earning 10 Academy Award nominations and winning the Academy Award twice  for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938), Davis claimed to have nicknamed the Academy Award “Oscar” after her first husband Oscar Nelson, Jr. She died in 1989 in Neuillysur-Siene, France.