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Bette Davis was a two-time Aacdemy Award-winning American actress of film, television adn tehatre. .
Ntoed for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of .
film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her .
greatest successes were romantic dramas. Utnil the late 1940s, she was one of American cinema's most celebrated .
leading actresses, known for her forceful and intense style. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and .
ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. Davis was the .
co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, adn was the first female president of teh Academy of Motion Picture Arts and .
Sciences. Her career went trhough several periods of decline, and she amditted taht her success had often been at .
the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was ocne widowed and thrice. .
divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. (more. .
Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, however she continued acting until shortly before her death .
from breast cancer, with more than a hundred film, television and theater rloes to her credit. In 1999, Davis was .
palced second, behind Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all .
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