Stockard Channing

The couple reside in Maine. One of the reasons Davis loved the song is that her granddaughter thought her grandmother was "cool" because she had a hit song written about her. She currently lives with cinematographer Daniel Gillham. After the song "Bette Davis Eyes" became a hit single, Davis wrote letters to songwriters Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, and singer Kim Carnes to ask them how they knew so much about her. Channing has been married and divorced four times, to Walter Channing, Paul Schmidt, David Debin, and David Rawle. She is also credited with many famous quotes about acting often about Hollywood and rivals like Crawford and Hepburn. Channing has also been nominated for a number of other awards, including the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress (for Six Degrees of Separation). She walked out of her last film, "Wicked Stepmother," which was released posthumously with her still included in 1989.

In 2002, Channing won two Emmy Awards; for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (The West Wing) and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (The Matthew Shepard Story). On Davis's tombstone is written, "She did it the hard way.". Channing has won numerous acting awards for various works including the 1979 People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress, the 1989 CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic or Theatrical Special (for Tidy Endings), the 2003 London Critics Circle Film ALFS Award for Actress of the Year (for The Business of Strangers), and the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (for The Matthew Shepard Story). Bette Davis died, aged 81, in 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, following a long battle with breast cancer, and after having suffered at least one serious stroke. Her part has gradually expanded from a recurring guest star role to a regular part. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation. In 1999, Channing took the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the television series The West Wing. On July 19, 2001, Steven Spielberg purchased Davis' Oscar statuette for Jezebel at a Christie's auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

She also returned to the stage, winning the 1985 Tony Award for A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg. Davis wrote another book, This N That, in the late 1980s, and Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, which appeared the year after her death, updating what had happened since her first biography had been published. In the 1980s and 1990s, Channing continued to work in television and film. Hyman (born Barbara Sherry), wrote a tell-all book, My Mother's Keeper, in which she savaged her mother. Davis admitted that her career always came first, and, although she married four times, and had sveral affairs, including ones with George Brent and William Wyler, it should be pointed out that many who knew both her and her daughter claimed that this book was largely fiction and that Davis, although in some ways difficult, was really a loving mother and grandmother. On the basis of this, CBS offered her the lead in two short lived television sitcom series, Stockard Channing in Just Friends (1979) and The Stockard Channing Show (1980). In 1985, her daughter, B.D. In 1978, Channing played the part of Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease. She wrote a biography, The Lonely Life, in the 1960s, and Mother Goddam in 1975.

In 1975, she starred alongside Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' The Fortune. In 1977, Davis became the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy. After brief appearances in 1971's The Hospital and 1972's Up the Sandbox, she landed her first lead role in the acclaimed 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely To.... Her role in 1962's over-the-top What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time rival Joan Crawford, earned her another Oscar nomination. One of Channing's earliest roles was as The Number Painter's victim, in a series of segments on Sesame Street. When her career began to fade again, in 1961, she placed a notorious ad for "job wanted" in the trade papers. She decided to pursue an acting career, starting in the Boston theatrical community, but eventually working in New York and Los Angeles. Her career began to stagnate through the 1940s, but her performance in All About Eve (1950), for which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.

Channing attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University and has degrees in history and literature. She went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for Dangerous (1936) and Jezebel (1938), and was able to name her own roles, with the exception of Gone With the Wind in 1939. Channing was born as Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City to Lester and Mary Stockard. After a much publicised legal battle with Warners, to stop them putting her in inferior movies, led to a dramatic improvement in the quality of her films (although she lost the case). Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American actress. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this tour de force and such was the outrage that she received many write in votes from disgruntled Academy members, the eventual winner was longtime rival Katharine Hepburn. The Fortune (1975). Her first starring role was in The Man Who Played God, and she became a star in Of Human Bondage.

Sweet Revenge (1976). The next year, she was hired by Universal Studios, but they felt she was not star material, and in 1932, they let her sign with Warner Brothers. The Big Bus (1976). Her first Broadway performance was in 1929, in Broken Dishes and later in Solid South. Grease (1978). Her first professional stage performance was The Earth Between, Off-Broadway in 1923. Without a Trace (1983). So, she enrolled in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school (who sent her classmate Lucille Ball home because she was "too shy"), and became a star.

Heartburn (1986). Davis was denied admission to Eva LeGallienne's Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insincere. Married to It (1991). Her parents divorced when she was 7, and she and her sister were raised by their mother, who aspired to be an actress. Six Degrees of Separation (1993). Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Edie & Pen (1997). Ruth Elizabeth Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), better known as Bette Davis, was an Academy Award winning American actress.

The Business of Strangers (2001). This article is about Bette Davis the actress, the article about Betty Davis the singer can be found here. The Bad Sister (1931). Seed (1931). Waterloo Bridge (1931).

Way Back Home (1931). The Menace (1932). Hell's House (1932). The Man Who Played God (1932).

So Big! (1932). The Rich Are Always with Us (1932). The Dark Horse (1932). Cabin in the Cotton (1932).

Three on a Match (1932). 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932). Parachute Jumper (1933). The Working Man (1933).

Ex-Lady (1933). Bureau of Missing Persons (1933). The Big Shakedown (1934). Fashions of 1934 (1934).

Jimmy the Gent (1934). Fog Over Frisco (1934). Of Human Bondage (1934). Housewife (1934).

Bordertown (1935). The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935). Front Page Woman (1935). Special Agent (1935).

Dangerous (1935). The Petrified Forest (1936). The Golden Arrow (1936). Satan Met a Lady (1936).

Marked Woman (1937). Kid Galahad (1937). That Certain Woman (1937). It's Love I'm After (1937).

Jezebel (1938). The Sisters (1938). Dark Victory (1939). Juarez (1939).

The Old Maid (1939). The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). All This and Heaven Too (1940). The Letter (1940).

The Great Lie (1941). The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941). The Little Foxes (1941). Shining Victory (1941).

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942). In This Our Life (1942. Now, Voyager (1942). Watch on the Rhine (1943).

Old Acquaintance (1943). Skeffington (1944). Mr. The Corn Is Green (1945).

The Watcher in the Woods (1980). Skyward (1980). Family Reunion (1981). Cimino (1982).

A Piano for Mrs. Little Gloria, Happy at Last (1982). Hotel (1982). Right of Way (1983).

Skeffington (1944). Nominated Mr. Nominated All About Eve (1950). Nominated The Star (1952).