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Acting

Bette Davis

Career: Active from 1931 to 2013, with a break from 1990 to 2000, busiest in 1932 with 9 main titles.

Leading roles: 98
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: All About Eve
92/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 104 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Bette Davis Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Adrenaline
3.4, average 4.8
Violence
2.8, average 4.1
Coming of Age
2.0, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 11
Social Commentary 11
Classic Hollywood 11
Character Study 10
Psychological Thriller 8
Class Conflict 7
Melodrama 7
Historical Drama 6
Historical Setting 5
Tragic Romance 5
Forbidden Love 5
Nostalgic 5

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

136

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year

TV show

2010s

2 titles · average score 78

Mike Wallace Is Here

78

as (archive footage)

Footsteps on the Ceiling

as Margo Channing (archive footage)

2000s

2 titles · average score 78

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

78

as Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)

Bride of Trailer Camp

as (archive footage)

1990s

1 title · average score 87

All About My Mother

87

In Memory Of

1980s

18 titles · average score 67

Wicked Stepmother

36

as Miranda Pierpoint

The Whales of August

66

as Libby Strong

As Summers Die

58

as Hannah Loftin

Murder with Mirrors

56

as Carrie Louise Serrocold

Right of Way

73

as Miniature Dwyer

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

78

as Esther McDonald Cimino

Hotel

65

TV show · as Laura Trent

Family Reunion

81

TV show · as Elizabeth Winfield

Family Reunion

76

as Elizabeth Winfield

The Watcher in the Woods

49

as Mrs. Aylwood

Skyward

70

as Billie Dupree

White Mama

84

as Estelle Malone

1970s

17 titles · average score 64

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

86

as Lucy Mason

Return from Witch Mountain

45

as Letha Wedge

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

74

TV show · as Widow Fortune

Death on the Nile

71

as Marie Van Schuyler

The Disappearance of Aimee

79

as Minnie Kennedy

Burnt Offerings

54

as Aunt Elizabeth

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

67

as Mother

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

75

TV show · as Mother

Scream, Pretty Peggy

61

as Mrs. Elliott

Madame Sin

47

as Madame Sin

The Judge and Jake Wyler

44

as Judge Meredith

Bunny O'Hare

50

as Bunny O'Hare

1960s

11 titles · average score 69

The Anniversary

66

as Mrs. Taggart

It Takes a Thief

73

TV show · as Bessie Grindel

The Nanny

79

as Nanny

The Decorator

66

as Liz

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

80

as Charlotte Hollis

Dead Ringer

69

as Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips

Where Love Has Gone

52

as Mrs. Gerald Hayden

The Empty Canvas

64

as Dino's Mother

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

83

as Baby Jane Hudson

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Celia Miller

Pocketful of Miracles

61

as Apple Annie

1950s

22 titles · average score 68

The Scapegoat

63

as Countess

John Paul Jones

50

as Empress Catherine the Great

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Constant Doyle

Wagon Train

71

TV show · as Madame Elizabeth McQueeny / Ella Lindstrom

The Catered Affair

44

as Agnes Hurley

Storm Center

57

as Alicia Hull

The Virgin Queen

67

as Queen Elizabeth I

The Star

44

as Margaret Elliot

Phone Call from a Stranger

61

as Marie Hoke

Another Man's Poison

67

as Janet Frobisher

Payment on Demand

62

as Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)

All About Eve

92

as Margo Channing

1940s

19 titles · average score 69

June Bride

64

as Linda Gilman

Deception

69

as Christine Radcliffe

A Stolen Life

70

as Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth

Mr. Skeffington

65

as Fanny Trellis

Watch on the Rhine

62

as Sara Müller

Now, Voyager

78

as Charlotte Vale

In This Our Life

72

as Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill

The Little Foxes

90

as Regina Hubbard Giddens

The Man Who Came to Dinner

68

as Maggie Cutler

The Bride Came C.O.D.

66

as Joan Winfield

All This, and Heaven Too

79

as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

The Letter

84

as Leslie Crosbie

1930s

43 titles · average score 63

Juarez

65

as Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg

Dark Victory

78

as Judith Traherne

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

73

as Queen Elizabeth

Jezebel

83

as Julie Marsden

Marked Woman

69

as Mary Dwight Strauber

The Petrified Forest

84

as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple

Satan Met a Lady

46

as Valerie Purvis

Special Agent

45

as Julie Gardner

Front Page Woman

66

as Ellen Garfield

Housewife

54

as Patricia Berkeley

Of Human Bondage

77

as Mildred Rogers

Jimmy the Gent

64

as Joan Martin