The two met at Elizabeth Taylor’s 60th birthday party Monica Schipper/Getty Images; Getty Images Bette Midler had a bad run-in with Bette Davis. On the July 24 episode of Hoda Kotb’s Making Space ...
Ruth Elizabeth Davis (she got the "Bette" from the Balzac novel "Cousin Bette") of Lowell, Massachusetts, arrived in Hollywood in 1930 to instant non-acclaim. She became known for the series of tense, ...
Bette Midler is opening up about her bittersweet encounter with her namesake, Bette Davis. “My mother named me for Bette Davis, which Bette Davis was not pleased to hear,” Midler, 78, said on the ...