“Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”
Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis (1908 – 1989)
1989 “Wicked Stepmother”, Miranda Pierpoint
1987 “The Whales of August”, Libby Strong
1986 “As Summers Die” (TV movie), Hannah Loftin
1985 “Murder with Mirrors” (TV movie), Carrie Louise Serrocold
1983 “Right of Way” (TV movie), Mini Dwyer
1983 “Hotel” (TV series), Laura Trent
1982 “Little Gloria… Happy at Last” (TV movie), Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
1982 “A Piano for Mrs. Cimino” (TV movie), Esther McDonald Cimino
1981 “Family Reunion” (TV movie), Elizabeth Winfield
1980 “Skyward” (TV movie), Billie Dupree
1980 “The Watcher in the Woods”, Mrs. Aylwood
1980 “White Mama” (TV movie), Adele Malone
1979 “Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter” (TV movie), Lucy Mason
1978 “Death on the Nile”, Mrs. Van Schuyler
1978 “Return from Witch Mountain”, Letha
1978 “The Dark Secret of Harvest Home” (TV miniseries), Widow Fortune
1977 “Laugh-In” (TV series), Guest star episode dated 5 November 1977, guest star
1976 “The Disappearance of Aimee” (TV movie), Minnie Kennedy
1976 “Burnt Offerings”, Aunt Elizabeth
1974 “Hello Mother, Goodbye!” (TV movie)
1973 “Scream, Pretty Peggy” (TV movie), Mrs. Elliott
1972 “The Judge and Jake Wyler” (TV movie), Judge Meredith
1972 “Lo scopone scientifico”, The Millionairess
1972 “Madame Sin”, Madame Sin
1971 “Bunny O’Hare”, Bunny O’Hare
1970 “Connecting Rooms”, Wanda Fleming
1970 “It Takes a Thief” (TV series), episode “Touch of Magic”, Bessie Grindel
1968 “The Anniversary”, Mrs. Taggart
1966 “Gun Law” (TV series), episode “The Jailer”, Etta Stone
1965 “The Nanny”, Nanny
1964 “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte”, Charlotte
1964 “Where Love Has Gone”, Mrs. Gerald Hayden
1964 “Dead Image”, Margaret DeLorca/Edith Phillips
1963 “La noia”, Dino’s mother
1963 “Perry Mason” (TV series), episode “The Case of Constant Doyle”, Constant Doyle
1962 “The Virginian” (TV series), episode “The Accomplice”, Celia Miller
1962 “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”, Baby Jane Hudson
1959-1961 “Wagon Train” (TV series), B.May / E.Lindstrom / Madame Elizabeth McQueeny
1961 “Pocketful of Miracles”, Apple Annie
1959 “The DuPont Show with June Allyson” (TV series), ep. “Dark Morning”, S.Whitney
1959 “The Scapegoat”, Countess
1959 “John Paul Jones”, Empress Catherine the Great
1959 “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (TV series), episode “Out There – Darkness”, Miss Fox
1958 “Suspicion” (TV series), episode “Fraction of a Second”, Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
1957-1958 “General Electric Theater” (TV series), Christine Marlowe / Miss Burrows
1958 “Studio 57” (TV series), episode “The Starmaker”
1957 “Telephone Time” (TV series), episode “Stranded”, Beatrice Enter
1957 “The Ford Television Theatre” (TV series), episode “Footnote on a Doll”, D.Madison
1957 “Schlitz Playhouse of Stars” (TV series), ep. “For Better, for Worse”, Irene Wagner
1956 “Storm Centre”, Alicia Hull
1956 “Wedding Breakfast”, Mrs. Agnes Hurley
1956 “The 20th Century-Fox Hour” (TV series), episode “Crack-Up”, Marie Hoke
1955 “The Virgin Queen”, Queen Elizabeth I
1952 “The Star”, Margaret Elliot
1952 “Four Star Revue” (TV series), episode #2.33, Guest Actress
1952 “Phone Call from a Stranger”, Marie Hoke
1951 “Another Man’s Poison”, Janet Frobisher
1951 “Payment on Demand”, Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
1950 “All About Eve”, Margo
1949 “Beyond the Forest”, Rosa Moline
1948 “June Bride”, Linda Gilman
1948 “Winter Meeting”, Susan Grieve
1946 “Deception”, Christine Radcliffe
1946 “A Stolen Life”, Kate Bosworth/Patricia Bosworth
1945 “The Corn Is Green”, Miss Lilly Moffat
1944 “Mr. Skeffington”, Fanny Trellis Skeffington
1943 “Old Acquaintance”, Kit Marlowe
1943 “Thank Your Lucky Stars”, Bette Davis
1943 “Watch on the Rhine”, Sara Muller
1942 “Now, Voyager”, Charlotte Vale
1942 “In This Our Life”, Stanley Timberlake
1942 “The Man Who Came to Dinner”, Maggie Cutler
1941 “The Little Foxes”, Regina Giddens
1941 “The Bride Came C.O.D.”, Joan Winfield
1941 “Shining Victory”, Nurse (uncredited)
1941 “The Great Lie”, Maggie Patterson Van Allen
1940 “The Letter”, Leslie Crosbie
1940 “All This, and Heaven Too”, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
1940 “If I Forget You” (short), Bette Davis
1939 “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex”, Queen Elizabeth
1939 “The Old Maid”, Charlotte Lovell
1939 “Juarez”, Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg
1939 “Dark Victory”, Judith Traherne
1938 “The Sisters”, Louise Elliott Medlin
1938 “Jezebel”, Julie
1937 “It’s Love I’m After”, Joyce Arden
1937 “That Certain Woman”, Mary Donnell, aka Mrs. Al Haines
1937 “Kid Galahad”, Louise ‘Fluff’ Phillips
1937 “Marked Woman”, Mary
1936 “Satan Met a Lady”, Valerie Purvis
1936 “The Golden Arrow”, Daisy Appleby
1936 “The Petrified Forest”, Gabrielle Maple
1935 “Dangerous”, Joyce Heath
1935 “Special Agent”, Julie Gardner
1935 “Front Page Woman”, Ellen Garfield
1935 “Men on Her Mind”, Miriam A. Brady
1935 “Bordertown”, Mrs. Marie Roark
1934 “Housewife”, Patricia Berkeley
1934 “Of Human Bondage”, Mildred Rogers
1934 “Fog Over Frisco”, Arlene Bradford
1934 “Jimmy the Gent”, Miss Joan Martin
1934 “Fashions of 1934”, Lynn Mason
1934 “The Big Shakedown”, Norma Nelson
1933 “Bureau of Missing Persons”, Norma Roberts
1933 “Ex-Lady”, Helen Bauer
1933 “The Working Man”, Jenny
1933 “Parachute Jumper”, Patricia ‘Alabama’ Brent
1933 “Just Around the Corner” (short), Ginger
1932 “20,000 Years in Sing Sing”, Fay Wilson
1932 “Three on a Match”, Ruth Wescott
1932 “The Cabin in the Cotton”, Madge Norwood
1932 “The Dark Horse”, Kay Russell
1932 “The Rich Are Always with Us”, Malbro
1932 “So Big!”, Miss Dallas O’Mara
1932 “The Silent Voice”, Grace Blair
1932 “Hell’s House”, Peggy Gardner
1932 “The Menace”, Peggy Lowell
1931 “Old Greatheart”, Mary Lucy Duffy
1931 “Waterloo Bridge”, Janet Cronin
1931 “Seed”, Margaret Carter
1931 “The Bad Sister”, Laura Madison
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Theatre
28 Dec 1961 – April 1962 “The Night of the Iguana”, Maxine Faulk [Royale Theatre, NY]
14 Sep 1960 – 08 Oct 1960 “The World of Carl Sandburg” [Henry Miller’s Theatre, NY]
15 Dec 1952 – 08 Mar 1953 “Two’s Company”, various [Alvin Theatre, NY]
14 Oct 1930 – Nov 1930 “Solid South”, Bam [Lyceum Theatre, NY]
05 Nov 1929 – Apr 1930 “Broken Dishes”, Elaine Bumpsted [Ritz / Theatre Masque, NY]
05 Mar 1929 – Mar 1929 “The Earth Between”, Floy Jennings [Provincetown Playhouse, NY]
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