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This item is an 8" X 10 1/2",black and white lithograph photo of Bette Davis and Claude Rains in a scene from one of her famous movies. The lithograph photo has been mounted on an 8" X 10 1/2" piece of photography paper.Her parents divorced when she was young. In her first year of high school, she gave up dance for acting. After a little time in John Murray Anderson's acting school, she was in the off-Broadway play The Earth Between (1923). Her Broadway debut in 1929 was in Broken Dishes. Late in 1930, on a six-month Universal contract, she arrived in Hollywood. The studio representative who went to meet her train left without her because he could find no one who looked like a movie star. In 1932 she signed a seven-year deal with Warners. She won Oscars for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938) and fought unsuccessfully to break her contract between awards. She received eight additional Oscar nominations, including one for the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950), the role with which she remains most identified. A genuine box-office star in the 1930s and 1940s, all her films from 1953 to 1962 lost money; then What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) brought a new phase of stardom. In 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979) (TV), and in 1982 she moved from Connecticut to L.A. to be in the 1982-3 TV series "Hotel" (1983) (illness led to her replacement by Anne Baxter--shades of All About Eve (1950)!). She had three children, one of whom was severely retarded. Her daughter B.D. wrote a 1985 torrid biography, My Mother's Keeper. In 1977 the American Film Institute gave her its Lifetime Achievement Award.The lithograph photo has been autographed on the front by Bette Davis with a fountain pen in black......BOTH PHOTO AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.....................
